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"The lack of interest in Fassbinder’s work depresses the hell out of me. For me, he is the birth of the new. His high-concept stories, told in bold dramatic strokes and with vibrant colors, teach us about everything from class and racial politics to family responsibility and true love. His theatricality comes out of the Brecht mold, but it is new, it is melodramatic and involving and funny, often bitter and ironic, always with good humor, but, for me anyway, never cynical. He wears his heart and soul on his sleeve. He traverses the taboo, attacks intolerance, and loves his characters so much, even if at first they appear totally unappealing. Fassbinder is an original, and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is one of his best films, made on the run like so many of his others. The world would be a better place if more people embraced movies like this one."

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The Witch of Blackbird Pond

Elizabeth George Speare

8.2 (6 Ratings) Rate It

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Sixteen-year-old Kit Tyler is marked by suspicion and disapproval from the moment she arrives on the...

Hot StepDad Summer (Stepdad Summer #1)

Iris Faire

6.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Wrongs righted. Love fated. Passionate desires unleashed. I didn't need a protector. And I wanted...

Contemporary Romance MM Romantic Suspense Taboo - stepdad Forbidden Love Bisexual and Gay Awakenings

Incognito

Lisabet Sarai

8.0 (1 Ratings) Rate It

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Shy and serious by day—insatiable by night. During the day, Miranda Cahill works diligently on...

Contemporary Erotica Romance

Zuky the BookBum (15 KP) rated Tampa in Books

Mar 15, 2018

Tampa

Alissa Nutting | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry

6.0

(4 Ratings)

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This book is meant to shock! Based on the case of Florida teacher Debra Lafave, this book explores a taboo subject with a twist. Not as often do you hear of a female teacher having an affair with a student, so it's a great book that flips this subject on its head to reveal a shocking double standard that's sadly present in our society.

I was so interested in where this story was going and how it was going to end that I hardly put it down! Definitely a NSFW book with some rather graphic scenes. Don't expect this book to be anything like Lolita in the sense that Nabokov writes in a such a way that you catch yourself slipping and feeling sorry for Humbert on occasion, Nutting makes no efforts to make us feel sorry for Celeste, she's presented as a lust driven woman who will stop at nothing to fufill her desires.

By liking this book I am not condoning the actions written within, I simply found this a fascinating read. Very different to anything I've read before.