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  • The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

  • The First of the Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty
  • By: Anne Rice
  • Narrated by: Genvieve Bevier, Winthrop Eliot
  • Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
  • 3.3 out of 5 stars (951 ratings)

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The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty

By: Anne Rice
Narrated by: Genvieve Bevier, Winthrop Eliot
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Publisher's summary

In the traditional folktale of 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. It is an ancient story, one that originally emerged from and still deeply disturbs the mind's unconscious. Now 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.

Here the Prince reawakens Beauty, not with a kiss, but with sexual initiation. His reward for ending the hundred years of enchantment is Beauty's complete and total enslavement to him...as Anne Rice explores the world of erotic yearning and fantasy in a classic that becomes, with her skillful pen, a compelling experience.

Don't miss any of the books in Anne Rice's Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty.
©1999 A.N. Roquelaure (P)2004 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
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A very unlikely prince

We all know our fairytales- from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves to Beauty and the Beast- which is why it's so hard for modern writers to get past that invisible barrier of rewriting them. I'd say Anne Rice completed a very challenging task, and I admire her courage as a writer for that. But I think I'd stick to vampires in the future!

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I guess is you have nothing else...

Based on recommendations online, I downloaded this book. It was uh, oh, what’s the word I’m looking for… awful. I had started listening to it and actually stopped soon after. I have endured some pretty horrible audiobooks but I found something better to listen to. Well, I decided to give it another try and finished it this time.

So I’m not at all into BDSM in my real life but I sure as heck love “reading/listening” about it. But good heavens, all the spanking drove me crazy. There are 2 more books so I guess If I have nothing else to listen to maybe I can hope the story gets better?

I wouldn't waste a good credit though...

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Got boring quickly - too much spanking

The book started off good but then just fell into a routine. Nubile captive is taken to this room where she is spanked and humiliated. Then taken off to meet this person...where she is spanked. Goes to her room to sleep but not before she is spanked. Next day taken outside where a woman on a horse chases her around with a long paddle and, you guessed it, spanks her some more.

It's just not hot.

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not a spanking good time

I was unsure about getting an abridged novel I do not think i will be getting any more any time soon! I feel I wasted my credit with this one. I didnt realize before I purchased this one that it was only 4 hours long. I will not be continuing the series. For being a bondage series I thought this was going to be way hotter. it was like the author thinks the only aspect of bonage is spanking and humility...there is so much more to it than spanking. This book wasnt very sexy and hoped for a lot more than it was. completly disappointed.

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Dark Erotica

This is not a book for the easily blushed. The story is dark but keeps moving. You can understand the transformation of it's characters to who they become and how they become that way. I found that more interesting then the erotica. Well written.

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Decent

The story is interesting but the narrator is rather bland and definitely doesn't do it justice

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The original Fifty Shades

Is there anything you would change about this book?

This book is good for what it's worth and so, I wouldn't change much but I would definitely take out the rape scenes.

Has The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty turned you off from other books in this genre?

It has not. If anything it has helped me find more that are better than this.

Did the narration match the pace of the story?

Yes it did but I think they could have found a male narrator to do the male voices.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

That depends on whether it was rated r or xxx.

Any additional comments?

The writer of Fifty Shades must have read or listened to this prior to writing Fifty Shades because they are many similarities.

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Awkward!

Would you try another book from Anne Rice and/or Genvieve Bevier and Winthrop Eliot ?

Maybe, but not in combination.

What do you think your next listen will be?

Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.

What didn’t you like about Genvieve Bevier and Winthrop Eliot ’s performance?

The story that she was reading felt like a private matter. I had trouble listening to such sexual content read in someone elses voice. It felt like she was an additional intruder in a storyline where even I (the reader) felt like I should stop listening to these characters shame.

Did The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty inspire you to do anything?

Not appropriate to discuss here.

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Buyer Beware...ABRIDGED!

"These are abridged! WHY???"
Pulled up the Series page, big letters UNABRIDGED...bought the trio I already own in print version and 'guess what!' They are all ABRIDGED. This did not improve the books, SO DISAPPOINTED. The Printed books are MUCH better, these are kind of pathetic...

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well......um..........huh?

I am struggling to find the right words to review this audiobook. The author took an interesting plot idea and turned it into a really sad look at Stockholm Syndrome. Sleeping Beauty isn't swept off her feet, she's kidnapped, abused and downright pitiful. But, I......guess...........she.........kind.......of ..........likes it? I'm all for getting down and dirty and being rough around all kinds of edges, but this was beyond that. I tried- I really did. I wanted to like it, but it just made me feel really weird. And, not in a good way.

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