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"Inanna In The Underworld" by (sex and rasslin'). BillyG: 10, 10, 4
"Inanna In The Underworld" From: gwalb25@my-dejanews.com. Guest Review by BillyG (hayden@mindless.com) --- Inanna, Queen of Heaven, a Sumerian Goddess, challenges her sister, Queen Ereshkigel, goddess of the underworld, for supremacy. At first blush, I thought this story might be cast as a heroic struggle between good and evil and for a brief while, it caught my attention. Too quickly it took on the glamour and excitement of a professional wrestling match. Two sisters - one beautiful and healthy stands in stark contrast to her slovenly and very unattractive counterpart whom she one defeated long before and banished her to the underworld. The battle between them is not epic. It's a cat fight - a smelly one at that. The description of the fight is given in seemingly endless detail. No brief encounter and quick defeat this. To the contrary, it goes on and on. It was more cat fight than I cared to read. Hell, had it been a description of sex, it might have been too much! It would appear that the raison d'etre for this story is the description of a professional wrestling cat fight and in this case, beauty and good fall to the greater power of evil and ugly. To the extent one finds sexual power or attraction in this genre, it may work. For me, it didn't. Ratings for "Inanna in the Underworld" Athena (technical quality): 10 Venus (plot & character): 10 (good development of bad character) BillyG (appeal to reviewer): 4 (don't much care for professional wrestling or cat fights) |