Title: A Great Comic Novel
Review: Terry Southern is a vastly underrated deadpan chronicler of the absurd and this novel is a scabrous classic, satirising the attempts of a celebrated director to make the first 'artistic' hardcore movie. Uncannily, Southern anticipated the emergence of 'porno chic' in mid-70s America. As well as chronicling a porn shoot, this book also makes its own unique contribution to the erotic arts, with a stream of wildly unhinged and increasingly tasteless set-piece sex scenes. And isn't that dedication (to 'the great Stanley K.') the most back-handed ever, given that the character based on Kubrick is both pretentious and foolish?
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