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"The Bet" by Unknown Author (mind control) 9.5, 9, 9
"The Bet" by RC (reposted by Bookman Archives). Celestial Assumption #7: People can be turned into sex slaves by college kids who read a chapter in a psych book. That's not quite accurate: the woman in this story also peruses several selections from the list of supplementary readings in the course syllabus. Since mind-control stories are so easy to write and have a huge potential to be non-creative, I made a rule for myself a long time ago that in order to get a high rating a mind-control story had to do a lot more than have someone say, "You are in my power. Have sex with me." In this story the college guy has made a bet with his girlfriend that she can't hypnotize him. Carrie wins the bet by hypnotizing the sexiest girl on the campus and delivering her to him on a silver platter. Of course, Carrie has her way with the sex goddess too. And the guy is a good loser. Things like this can't happen in real life. If this were possible, we would see millions of people doing things like staring blankly at small boxes that emit electronic versions of insipid stories that sensible people would not want to watch of their own volition. Teenage boys would follow teenage girls with blank looks on their faces - in spite of the loose reference of the prepositional phrase in the first half of this sentence. This story would receive straight 10's.... I suspect that stories like this one are written by Psychology professors who are really desperate and will stoop to anything to motivate their students to read a chapter in their text book. Ratings for "The Bet" Athena (technical quality): 9.5 Venus (plot & character): 9 Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9 |