Have you ever found wisdom inn a dirty novel?

United States
September 29, 2011 9:52pm CST
I was reading a novel called "The Decievers" by a playboy magazine writer. The book was $1.50 in the dollar general store. It is about a cambodian woman that excaped the poverty, promiscuity, and corruption of cambodia to new york to learn the trade of fine art and dynasties and history of asian art. She's living on a dime making cold calls, writing letters and sending postcards to get a career going so she can pay her bills. Her friend that delivers Thai food comes across an ancient cambodian or thai artifact that he doesn't explain how he came across. To make a long story short, she kind of falls into a fortune just by being a flunkie. I didn't like the book to begin with, but I learned alot from it. I put it down several times because I thought it was misjudging women, but it doesn't it teaches an important lesson...skill.
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@UmiNoor (4522)
• Malaysia
30 Sep 11
I haven't read a dirty novel since I was in college and that is like 25 years ago. I used to read Sidney Sheldon and Harold Robbins. Sheldon doesn't really write in a dirty manner but my teacher considers his novels trash. I read his novels because there's always an element of intrigue in his novels. I don't read the Mills & Boons series which I feel is just simply trash with no imagination at all. I guess even with dirty novels you do learn something like for example the novel that you've read, you must have learned something about the Cambodian culture and history.
• United States
3 Oct 11
It's fast paced, the woman really works hard and has to make ends meet and it doesn't go far until she meets up with the thai takeout guy who knows she looks at art from orient mostly. She has friends that can help her with her business and to get ahead. I don't know whether it's for her knowledge or beauty, but she works constantly.