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Title: A Total Turnoff
Review: This book has an interesting subject (Countess Bathory) but the author seems to use the entire premise of the countess' life as a classy excuse to write a bunch of fictionalized and -- in my opinion -- badly written pornography. It seems that the author just had a few fantasies he wanted to get out of his system and found the countess and her descendents as a convenient, vicarious outlet for these feelings. Most annoying of all, however, are the "current day" portions of the novel where the main character recounts his adventures to a court judge. The main character's language in these portions seems too contrived, rehearsed, and purple-prose to be the kind of spontaneous things a person would actually say in court. What a turn off.
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