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Title: Kinda Sleazy
Review: This book was a huge disappointment. I was looking forward to an informative historical novel about a truly terrifying woman. Instead what I got was a cold, dull, mildly pornographic tale.Don't get me wrong, I expected some pretty graphic stuff given the subject matter, but there were a few too many completely gratuitous sex scenes seemingly randomly thrown in. Even secondary and tertiary characters were given perverse romps in the hay. I know Codrescu is an intelligent man--you can't be an NPR commentator and be a dummy--but I can't help picturing him rubbing his hands and grinning lasciviously as he wrote this stuff.This is not the scholarly work you might expect--consider yourself warned.
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