Carrie's Story: An Erotic S/M Novel
by Molly Weatherfield
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Author: Molly WeatherfieldEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-07-26
ISBN: 1573441562
Number of pages: 220
Publisher: Cleis Press
Book Reviews of Carrie's Story: An Erotic S/M Novel
Book Review: A Tour De Force
Summary: 5 Stars
Carrie's Story soars to heights far above it's inspiration "The Story of O." It is sexy, challenging, smart, deep and above all, erotic. Molly Weatherfield takes us on Carrie's journey into a BDSM lifestyle. While the book is unabashedly sexy, it's also very smart, challenging the reader to think about life in a totally new way.
The very idea of submission is perhaps puzzling to those of us outside the BDSM world. Carrie explores "why" she is doing what she is doing when she says: "you want to be done to, by a desire that's more selfish and specific than your own. You want that blank, floating moment of release, of submission, of knowing that it's useless to resist."
Her self-doubt is familiar to those of us who have ventured, like a moth to a flame, to situations we aren't proud of. She questions what she is doing: "And even though I'd go home those evenings sore, humiliated, miserable, and vowing never to return, I always did return. Promptly." She may have experienced some cognitive dissonance: "I wanted to resist, I couldn't quite find the moment, or the muscular center, for actually doing so. Instead, some part of me was discovering, as he kept breathing the word, that there was a way to be utterly, terrifyingly "open.""
By submitting totally, Carries discovers that for her, submission to another was in fact freedom, when she says, "open as I was, I had lost a kind of authority, both against the world and my own gleeful, brute body." Being the person "on top" in the relationship was the true challenge, and her master would "make me thank them profusely after whatever they did to me. Sometimes he thanked them as well, explaining how much I needed to be used."
Carrie reaches the transcendent moment when she felt herself "become an object- his object, only better than an object, because I had a consciousness and a will and an intelligence that I would willingly submit to him."
Maybe she explains it best when she says "I didn't so much understand it as feel it, glimpsing a never-ending horizon of pain and challenge, as yet unimagined extremes of experience opening out for me, if I were brave enough to try to encounter them." If you are brave enough to give this book a chance, it may open your eyes, like it did mine, to a totally new experience. As Carrie says, "it is always a stretch, an effort of will and intelligence, to become an object."
Summary of Carrie's Story: An Erotic S/M Novel
“I had been Jonathan?s slave for about a year when he told me he wanted to sell me at an auction. I wasn?t in any condition to respond when he told me this.? So begins Carrie?s tale of uncompromising sexual adventure. Set in San Francisco and Napa Valley, this is an erotic journey into the netherworld of slave auctions and training regimes. Imagine Story of O starring a Berkeley Ph.D. in comparative lit who moonlights as a bike messenger and has a penchant for irony, self-analysis, and anal sex. “My favorite neo-Victorian erotic romance writer ... bring on the ponies!? — Susie Bright
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