Melissa P.Critiques

A los dieciséis años se tienen pocas cosas: un cuerpo que provoca perplejidades, un espejo, un diario... Y muchas ganas de experimentar el amor con la nostalgia de lo nunca probado. Los cien golpes es el relato estremecedor de una iniciación erótica en las profundidades de la sexofóbica Sicilia.

Un menos que mediocre libro con una efectista y efectiva campaña de marketing.

Beh, ci sarebbero MOLTE cose da dire, ma dirò solamente che l'ho letto quando avevo 17/18 anni e l'ho considerato un libro umoristico.. è decisamente uno dei libri che non riprenderò più in mano.

Libros que me avergüenzo de haber leído, capítulo I.

I found this ok to read, but not as candy-flossy as I'd expected. Not really candy-flossy at all, actually. Its supposedly the diary of a real teenage girl from Italy who goes through a period of sleeping with lots of different people, not in the best situations, because she's got a strange view of herself, relationships & the need to be loved. I say its supposed to be the diary of a real girl, because I'm not entirely convinced. I don't know of anyone who wrote or thought that way between the ages of 14-16, or could write such detailed accounts in a diary. The situations seemed a little too staged, & all the people she retells conversations with all seem to speak in the same way she does. There is probably a grain of truth behind it all, but to me it is a fictionalised account to a greater extent than is implied. But that doesn't detract from the book at all. The writing is really very good, even if she does have a tendency to string too many adjectives together. The sleazy content of it isn't used as a quick way to grab attention, because the writing & thoughts that come with the situations are educated & insightful. Its not a book I'd read again, but it was a good read for the little effort it took to get through.

Quando ancora mi facevo abbagliare dalla pubblicità!

This book was an impulse buy while vacationing in Rio without the benefit of looking it up before purchase. The premise is intriguing – a 15/16 year old Italian girl’s genuine diary tells her tale of seeking love but instead surrounded by sex in all the wrong ways.

It’s pretty easy to hate this book. Skepticism and disgust readily crowds the mind. I had wanted to be the reader to say – for xyz reasons/hints/clues, this supposedly diary is real. Instead, it’s easier to believe it’s fake because I don’t want it to be real – that I would not wish such a journey on anyone and certainly not for any parent to think their precious daughter to have gone down this path to find love.

Elements that make this book feels like a diary – whining about her parents like a typical teenager would, choppy sometimes incoherent thoughts, and inclusion of different elements in life beyond the sex (earlier portions of the book).
Elements that make this book feels fake – the intensity and perhaps preposterousness of such a tale (hey, that’s what sells books – I bought it!), the absence of different elements in life beyond the sex (later portions of the book), the excessive freedom that she has with her parents, and where does she get the money to buy all her lingerie?? Lol.

How anyone can find this book erotic is beyond me; the circumstances are not.

Quotes:

On the desire for love:
“I want love, Diary. I want to feel my heart melt, want to see my icy stalactites shatter and plunge into a river of passion and beauty.”

On the choice of sex before love – what a bad decision to make:
“…I do have a heart, Diary, even if he doesn’t notice it, even if perhaps no one ever will. And before I open it, I shall give my body to any man who comes along, for two reasons: because in devouring me he might taste my rage and bitterness and therefore experience a modicum of tenderness; and because he might fall so deeply in love with my passion that he won’t be able to do without it. ”½

...na cazzata!

Che schifo! Ma vi prego, non chiamatelo romanzo o biografia! Questo è un libro di bassa pornografia descrittiva, la cui protagonista adolescente non solo ha gli ormoni impazziti, ma non ha nemmeno nessuno che le abbia insegnato a tenerli a bada! E vogliono spacciarmelo per libro quasi romantico solo perchè un paio di volte Melissa accenna ad un'infinita solitudine, sfiorando col pensiero lo squallore della sua vita, per poi finire in uno stucchevole quanto falso lieto fine con il primo principe azzurro che passa? Ma perpiacere! Questa cavalla selvaggia è solo una delle tante troiette come ne ho conosciute tante, vuote, oche, annoiate, in cerca di emozioni forti per riempire la loro inutilità, per stancare i loro lombi adagiati sulla bambagia o per vantarsi della propria esperienza con amiche-rivali false e ipocrite come loro. Solo, lei è stata più furba delle altre e fra libro e film s'è fatta i soldi. Questo libro andrebbe letto agli attuali quaranta-cinquantenni, al solo scopo di porre la generazione di genitori di Melissa e co. davanti ai mostri che con la loro assenza di educazione, anzi maleducazione, hanno creato. E lo dice una 24enne che qst libro lo ha letto a 16 anni, quindi quasi coetanea di lei. Vi prego, usatelo in bagno e tirate lo sciaquone.½

ne parlavano tutti e la curiosità ha vinto. L'unica cosa positiva è che per leggerlo non lo ho comprato, ho saltato parecchie pagine e arrivare in fondo è stata una faticata. Va probabilmente lodata l'operazione commerciale che ne ha decretato il successo sull'onda delle varie lolite di un, allora, ancor poco conosciuto (dalla massa) fenomeno blog e youtube

There seems to be a debate about whether this story is fact or fiction - I would like to go with fiction.

I chose this book to fit in with a challenge I am in and it fits 2 caterogories - a language other than my own and this book has been translated from Italian and n erotic novel with a menage theme - this fits that slightly.

Melissa starts writing her diary as a 14 year old virgin then she meets Daniella and they have a short affair where she loses her virginity and she thinks she is in love with him, but he is cruel to her. From here she moves on to have various affairs to maybe punish herself for wanting to do these things but really she is looking for love in the wrong places with the wrong men. She meets her partners through the internet, friends and just out and about. She meets Roberto, a university student she is attracted to and he leads her to group sex with 5 men. She goes off with a 35 year old married man who buys a unit so they can be together. She meets a female on the internet and they have a short affair. Melissa then has a short affair with her maths tutor, she becomes friends with a cross dresser and she asks to watch 2 guys together. They were ruluctant at first but them welcomed her. Eventually she meets Claudio and the book ends with their special bond when she is 16 going on 17.

I have read some reviews of this book and a lot of people have given it a 1 star but I truly enjoyed it, once you forget Melissa is only 16 and you are thankful that she is not your daughter. I liked her descriptions and the words that she used to describe herself and what was happening.

I listened to on CD that may be the different as I found the narrator quite good.

I have been wanting to read this book since it was first printed years ago. I never got my hands on it before last month where I finally found a moochable copy at bookmooch. I put everything else on standby while I read it and maybe I shouldn't have. The book disappointed a lot. I know the book had been a big discussion issue especially in Italy where the writer is supposed to be from. I guess the idea that a young Italian might be a an addict to something else than alcohol, marihuana or whatever. The book is said to be very descriptive about sexual scenes and yes it is, but the book is not that well-written, the diary format doesn't really work and it is not really erotic, just annoying and a bit disgusting.

The follow up to One Hundred Strokes of the Brush when Melissa has grown up a little. She revisits some previous relationships and the narrative jumps around a little. She seems desperate to have a baby but when she miscarries it spells the end of her relationship as well. Not must of the erotic and sensual aspects of the first book, this is more inwardly focused on what Melissa thinks and feels.

I didn’t really like this. The first one was very sensual and I really warmed to Melissa. In this one I just found her really self absorbed and annoying. Luckily it was a short book or I would have tossed to aside and not bothered to finish it which is pretty much unheard of behaviour for me.½

Megdöbbentő naplórészletek egy önmagát kereső tinilányról.

I enjoyed a few pages out of the 170 or so; I did not enjoy the book as a whole and actually gave up.

The book didn't live up to the hype, for me.

Ho letto questo libro per curiosità, ma ne sono rimasta decisamente delusa. è un libro che trovo assolutamente inutile, in quanto non incide, non comunica con il lettore e mi ha lasciata totalmente indifferente. Fredda narrazione di fatti noiosi.½

Romanen er skrevet i dagbokform, og den eies og skrives av 14 år gamle Melissa. Handlingen utspiller seg fra juli 2000 til august 2002 i Italia. I løpet av denne tiden går Melissa fra å være en uerfaren fjortis, til å bli en dreven seksuell aktør. Hun skildrer de seksuelle erfaringene hun gjør seg, unsensurert, og til tider er det svært grovt. Dette preger henne, og hun stiller spørsmål til både seksualiteten og kjærligheten.

En helt ok bok, den tok meg ikke med storm eller noe. Men å tenke på hvor ung hun var da hun drev med disse tingene en litt tankevekkende.

Intimni dnevnik šesnaestogodišnje djevojke koji je šokirao Italiju

Something must have been lost in translation... I enjoyed a few pages out of the 170 or so; I did not enjoy the book as a whole for a number of reasons: 1) the writing was not especially erotic; 2) the supposedly naive voice changed to an experienced voice describing one of the SM events that ruined the suspension of disbelief that the book was an unedited diary; which leads to 3) the book only convinces as a biographical fiction of a mundane series of adolescent sexual encounters -- and therefore is just one among thousands of other such fluff.½

Banale½

Stupidly, I fell for the hype. This book is touted as being "erotic" but due to the girl's age, its really nothing more than the exploitation of child abuse and the pedophiles she fell into the arms of. I found this to be very disturbing.

I picked this book up from a bargain table, only it's spine visible. I know it's wrong to judge a book by its cover, but I like to think that a first attraction to a title is always something to be explored. And it was a bargain. Part way through the book, I started to question whether it was worth my time to finish it. The diary format made it very disjointed and the thoughts even more scattered. But it was such a quick read that I was to the end before I knew it. The ending was very hopeful, promising, although a little to brief of a turn.½

I'd heard so much about this book before reading it that perhaps my expectations were too high to begin with. The sex scenes seemed to me to be far more gratuitous than cathartic, and the character's self-examination didn't ever seem to actually get anywhere. The entire book was less cohesive than I'd hoped for, and from erotica, I expect something a bit racier; this book failed to meet my expectations from both a literary standpoint and an erotic one.

the strongest emotion i could make out after reading this book: boredom.

A not so very erotic memoir, short on sweetness, short on romance, short sensuality. The lack of perception and art on her part perhaps speak to its authenticity. This is teen sex at its worst.