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The Old Man and the Sea
Author: C
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(Added on Nov 19, 2004)
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An old man vanquishes three wicked mermaids. |
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| Reviewer:
Breannefun
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Nov 22, 2004 |
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I'm not sure Hemmingway would have approved, but on the other hand, he might have enjoyed it tremendously. In either case this wasn't really about sex, it was about revenge, and a wiley old man to boot. The writing read more like a screenplay, a little devoid of description, especially setting the scene. Hemmingway usually took five pages to describe a hand and the sunlight on the water. I'm not asking for that, but a little more might be nice. With that exception, the content and concept were both excellent. (8/10)
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- Replied by:
Comneno
(Edit) (Nov 22, 2004)
- Thanks for having a look at it and giving it a thoughtful review. In writing these things, I have tended (quite intentionally) to imitate the style of fairytales, which on the whole seem to me to pare description down to a minimum. This practice obviously isn't everyone's cup of java, and I'm certainly not foolish enough to expect it to be.
To your comment that "this wasn't really about sex," I have to respond that it depends on the reader. This IS probably one of the less sexual tales I've written, but please keep in mind that everything I write is intended for that subset of fetishists for whom revenge, humiliation, and other sorts of punishment are arousing, particularly when inflicted on beautiful, wicked women. The internet has proved to me that there are a lot more of us than I thought there were, but we are, of course, still a small minority. (Maybe that's a good thing.) So I fully expect complaints like "not very arousing."
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pangent617
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Nov 21, 2004 |
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Simply teh best of this genre (10/10)
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