Review: `A dirty book is never dusty'
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2014
Pandora Bleue takes the opportunity to use her many years of observation and activity with sexual obsessions to entertain the reader with a plethora of varied sensual encounters. Not that she is alone in embracing this aspect of life: turn on the television late at night and count the number of copulating couples - men with women, women with women, variations of both - and it becomes clear that we now live in an era of openness about sexuality. Not that this is a new preoccupation - far from it. Thumb through the ancient Japanese pillow books or the French graphic tales of the 19th century or the tales from Catullus or Rumi and on and on. But the one aspect that makes Pandora Bleue's Diary unique is her lack of hesitance to share libidinous thoughts and actions post middle age. That is refreshing, and if the reader can put aside the blushes of sexual insecurity or false modesty and simply bask in the brash frankness of Pandora Bleue's stories there are secrets about human sexuality to learn and perhaps share. Though it is being marketed as `Women's Erotica Genre - 18 and older only', times have changed and likely the audience will be both genders sharing at the high school level because that is where society has brought them at present.Pandora's diary entries are scattered around the world. At times they are voyeuristic and at other times they are personal reportage. She shares encounters of observation and one on one encounters with both men and with other women. The language is blunt - no filtering here - and that also makes her writing or rather sharing her diary even more realistic as these are memories of affairs past and one gets the feeling they are episodes form more recent times. She obviously loves the stage and she does a one woman stand up routine very well indeed. If frank verbal descriptions of a panoply of sensual rhythmic encounters are your cup of tea, taste these. Grady Harp, February 14