Topic started by mridula (@ 203.197.135.201) on Wed May 23 07:43:55 .
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i was rereading this book after a gap of 15 years. i first read it when i was 15 or 16 years old. at that age, it was a forbidden book and hence i found it extremely titillating. but now at the age of 32, i am finding this book extremely simplistic and it doesnt really deliver what it promisei.e; the ultimate in sexual pleasure. wallace talks vaguely about various techniques and keeps us hooked till the last page with hints of a fairyland just yonder. at the end, you feel cheated. or is it because in today's satiated internet world, there is no longer anything significant in wallace's work? is he outdated???

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• From: Naveen (@ ac89c608.ipt.aol.com) on: Mon Jun 18 23:49:20
  
  Mridula, I remember tearing off the cover as a kid(no, I didn't throw the cover away. are you kidding me?) so I could read it at home. My father detested Irving Wallace. It achieved its purpose then, if you know what I mean :-) Now, if you want me to re-read that book, you'd have to pay me for each page.
  
  I don't think we find him simplistic or insignificant because he's dated or because of the internet or anything else. I think we find him simplistic and insignificant because he IS simplistic and insignificant. The difference is, we are mature enough now, to realize it.
  
  
• From: CARLOS GIBSON (@ wll-09-pppoe048.t-net.net.ve) on: Wed Oct 31 17:33:41
  
  I'M 18 YEARS OLD , I'M FROM VENEZUELA, SO I GOT THE ESPANISH ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION OF THE TRES SIRENAS, I WAS WONDERED BY THE IMPECABILITY OF THE MANERS AT THAT TIME AND THE SOOMTH HANDLET WAY HE TOLD THE STORY..... BUT LIKE YOU GUYS I FEEL CHEATED BY HE'S PURITAN WAY OF WRITING ABOUT THE GREATE SEX EXPERIENCED BY RACHEL DEJOUNG AND MORETOURI AT THE DESSERTED BEACH........ YOU WANT ACTION ..... READ HAROLD ROBBINS.
  
  
• From: capt. jagdish khokhar (@ ) on: Mon Dec 17 06:38:07
  
  could someone pls guide us how nd where to find this book.
  
  
• From: Bala (@ ) on: Thu May 16 05:07:31
  
  I strongly feel that its a masterpiece. We have to appreciate the fact that Irving Wallace has made the readers believe that there really exists an island where the Garden of Eden was resurrected.
  
  If you need a horny stuff, please dont expect it from Irving Wallace. You have come to a wrong person. I very much differ with the views of respondents that the novel is outdated. Its worth reading than compared to many of the contemporary books.
  
  
• From: rev (@ ) on: Fri Nov 8 22:39:46
  
  wasnt expecting horny stuff, but i expected to be convinced about free love, and how it can actually work on an island uninhabited and uncorrupted. i expected to be taken away. expected to go through an experience like never before, to truly understand the values that community stood for. but in the end. nothing. left u so incomplete. ps: i'm 17.
  
  
• From: Aspacia (@ ) on: Sun Feb 8 17:09:56
  
  I don't know anything of the book but my boyfriend asked me to get him one for Valentine's day, and I am trying to get a copy.
  
  

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