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Why read it?
1 author picked Candy as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This bawdy 1958 novel reads like a bizarre porn script (or a parody of one).
Like the hapless hero of Voltaire’s Candide, Candy Christian is an intelligent and generous-minded (albeit naive) college student who lets herself be taken advantage of by all sorts of sophisticated perverts whose only goal (they claim) is to assist Candy on her spiritual journey.
It’s probably asking a lot of the contemporary reader to continue with this absurd (and sexist) premise, but I admit it – I laughed a lot and on almost every single page.
Candy is prurient, amoral, and silly, but easy…
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