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"Dear Diary" by Parker (sex slavery) 9, 8, 3
"Dear Diary" by Parker. Review written by A.M. McStuff, who may be reached at assmastermcstuff@hotmail.com. . >From time to time the reader of ASSM will come across a story so strong it reminds him of the effervescent bliss of well-crafted erotica. This is not such a story. Let's first dispense with the plot: two American hikers (Karen and Jennifer) become lost in the Scottish countryside, where they stumble across a sadistic matron who drugs, tortures, and sexually humiliates them -- in perpetuity. Jennifer adapts more readily to sexual servitude than Karen. The story begins promisingly enough. Parker humorously captures the stuffy locution of the upper-class mistress (or so I would imagine -- my closest brush with Scotland was my Sheena Easton record collection in 8th grade). Here is Parker's artful way of saying the victims are forced to wear dog collars: "Darcy [the butler] has put the various artifacts of Nigel's ill-fated (and, I should add, much warned against) venture into the field of dog breeding to good use." But sometimes these verbal tricks only annoy the reader. The following sentence is too precious by half: "It [a dildo forced into Karen] immediately began buzzing from within the girl's... (I really don't know the right word to use here) 'thingy.'" Please. The story follows, for its first half, the conventions of bondage literature. The girls are slowly broken, and there comes a moment when -- surprise! -- they find release and pleasure in servitude. There's nothing wrong with genre writing in capable hands, and Parker without question is literate. But "Dear Diary" takes a repellent turn in its second half. Karen, the obstreperous one, resists impalement on a large dildo. When her will gives out she noisily and messily voids her bowels in front of her mistress. As punishment she is anally raped with the handle of a feather duster. This reader's bias: I find scatological scenes wholly un-erotic. A gentleman's agreement has been violated by the writer when she includes certain scenes in a story without having made note of them in the subject header. My sense is that this sort of story is review-proof. Readers who like this sort of thing will like this sort of thing. My verdict, though: well-wrought trash. Ratings for "Dear Diary" Technical: 9 Plot/Character: 8 Appeal to Reviewer: 3 |