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Title: The Curious Sofa: A Pornographic Work by Ogdred Weary by Edward Gorey ISBN: 0-15-100307-6 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 15 September, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Delightfully Wicked
Comment: The first Gorey book I've ever bought, and it's left me panting for more.
Subtitled "a pornographic work," The Curious Sofa it is indeed, but for what it leaves out. Readers won't find sex or violence on these pages, merely the titillation of the unseen.
Umm... mouth watering!
Rating: 5
Summary: Sex and violence - I think
Comment: A particularly miniature gem from a master miniaturist, The Curious Sofa tells of the delightfully open-minded Alice who, approached one day in the park while she's eating grapes, takes a taxi ride with a young gentleman during which she does something that she's never done before. The story then proceeds to a country house, during which various upper-class folk introduce Alice to a dizzying variety of fun, variously involving a French maid, a Countess, a married couple who each have a wooden leg, numerous "exceptionally well-formed" gentlemen and an enthusiastic Old English sheepdog. You don't actually see anything, thanks to Mr. Gorey's discreet placing of trees, bushes, clothed persons and screens between us and the action, so fans of genuine porn can expect to be disappointed. But this is still a highly titillating book. It climaxes, as it were, when the whole party encounters the eponymous and somewhat sinister sofa, at which point events get rather beyond Alice's control in a way that I'll leave to your imagination.
I don't know what kind of tea Mr. Gorey drinks but I'd quite like to try some. If you wanted to explain to somebody what the word "suggestive" means, and were for some reason allergic to dictionaries, you were best off lending them this book. It's all good fun until the last page - which I find extremely worrying. And yet I'm afraid that says more about me than it says about the book.
Rating: 3
Summary: Um. Well, it's different.
Comment: That's about all I can say. I was expecting a bit more than this. it's very small and very thin and implies more than it says. It's sort of mocking. The sofa isn't curious in the sense that it want s to know things, it's curious in the sense that there's something different about it.
Definitely rated whatever you would rate your own mind, since most of the dirty stuff IS all in the implications and has little to do with the words or images. Little kids would read it and just not get it, but adults might see it a bit different.
Not for kids.
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Title: The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey ISBN: 0151003084 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 15 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: The Haunted Tea-Cosy: A Dispirited and Distasteful Diversion for Christmas by Edward Gorey ISBN: 0151004153 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 31 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Doubtful Guest by Edward Gorey ISBN: 0151003130 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 15 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $9.00 |
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Title: The Epiplectic Bicycle by Edward Gorey ISBN: 0151003149 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 15 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $10.00 |
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Title: The Other Statue by Edward Gorey ISBN: 0151006962 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 09 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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