Quote Originally Posted by fantazmaster View Post
If you like The Beauty series by Anne Rice,you may want to take a look at another novel of hers,titled "Exit To Eden" which Rice wrote under her Anne Rampling pseudonym.
This novel set in a more contemporary time than the Beauty triology,as it details the adventures of various characters at an exclusive BDSM island resort.
I'm just reading this now. (I almost passed it by because I assumed it was the book of the film, I'm glad I checked!) Like "Story of O" (which she repeatedly references) it's noteworthy for having brought ideas into the quality mainstream that were previously only found in pulp porn; consequently I have to keep remembering that what sound like cliches were new when it was written! In particular, it's obvious that Laura Antoniou writes in what's essentially the same universe: I won't say she copied it, rather that both of them were using ideas that were in the wind at the time.
There was a movie that resulted from this novel by the same name,but the movie was written as a more of a thriller comedy and departed so widely from Rice's intent,that she reportedly dissociated herself from this screen version.Read the novel,but avoid the movie,unless you are a devoted fan of Dana Delany ,Dan Aykroyd or Rosie O' Donnell.
It's not bad (and deserves kudos for making the subject less threatening for Muggles,) but gets ludicrous at times for its efforts to (as they say on TV Tropes) get stuff past the radar. thir and I fell about laughing at the scene where the novice slaves kneel and ceremoniously kiss the Domme's knee.