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| The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty | 
| Authors: A. N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice
Publisher: Plume
Category: Book
List Price: $15.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  258 reviews
Sales Rank: 4399
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 4.7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0452281423
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780452281424
ASIN: 0452281423
Publication Date: May 1, 1999
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: This is an earlier edition with different cover design - Cover has some wear; pages are unmarked. SHIPS NEXT DAY
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Product Description
Rice writing as A. N. Roquelaure.
In the traditional folk tale "Sleeping Beauty," the spell cast upon the lovely young princess and everyone in her castle can only be broken by the kiss of a Prince. Anne Rice's retelling of the Beauty story probes the unspoken implications of this lush, suggestive tale by exploring its undeniable connection to sexual desire.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 253 more reviews...
 The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty November 25, 2008
I was not impressed and will not be reading the other two books in the series.
 So disappointed in Anne Rice. November 11, 2008
I read some of the bad reviews before I purchased this book. I realized some people claimed this book was nothing but generic porn, but considering it was written by Anne Rice, I thought the book must have some redeeming qualities. I was wrong. Anne Rice took a beautiful fairytale and turned it into a grotesque display of homo/heterosexual brutality. I almost feel embarassed for Mrs Rice and wonder what drove her to write such complete and utter drivel. Spankings, spankings and more spankings! Black, white, gold paddles. Spankings for punishments, spankings as rewards, spankings just for the heck of it! If I wasn't so disgusted with this book, I would actually laugh.
My negative review has nothing to do with me being a prude or not. It's one thing to write a kinky book for adults about adults. That I can live with, but this book crossed the line. Some of the people brutalized in the most horrendous ways are children. I can't believe this book was even published. It's a pedophile's dream come true. This book is going in the trash. I never want to lay eyes on it again.
 Interesting.. September 22, 2008
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty
Well unlike some of the reviews that I have read for this series, I find that Anne Rice's depiction of Sleeping Beauty to be interesting. The entire series (which I have read all 3 books thank you) is set to go beyond what we would percieve as torture. It tests the bounries of what a human body and mind can handle. If you can not be open minding to that then I suggestive not to read this series then. It is not ment to be set to what others think is okay (kinky wise)...as for the spanking..well hellooo! Spanking is one of the lowest form of digration!..
 Totally awesome!!!!! September 11, 2008
this story is really fun it gives you different perception of what's lust and true love means.... anne rice is so good!!!!! i hope everyone will like it.
Spank me if I ever open this book again! August 22, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is the most repetitious book I have ever not completed reading. It takes a classic love story and turns it into ridiculous tale of bondage and punishment over and over and over again. It would have liked it better if Sleeping Beauty would have ate a bushel of apples and went into a irreversible coma on about the 3rd page. Oh, did I mention that this book is repetitious?
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