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The 120 Days of Sodom

Marquis de Sade

The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade relates the story of four wealthy men who enslave 24 mostly teenaged victims and sexually torture them while listening to stories told by old prostitutes. The book was written while Sade was imprisoned in the Bastille and the manuscript was lost during the st...

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Rotten Mango

The book was a medieval castle setting with four wealthy noblemen who decided to lock themselves in a castle for four months with 40 people, including their own daughters. It included sexual fantasies with violence against women and children, including orgies and eating poop. It was considered one of the nastiest books ever written and banned in many countries.

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One of their favorite works to read together and one of his most infamous works is a book called 121 Days of Sodom.

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The book was a medieval castle setting with four wealthy noblemen who decided to lock themselves in a castle for four months with 40 people, including their own daughters. It included sexual fantasies with violence against women and children, including orgies and eating poop. It was considered one of the nastiest books ever written and banned in many countries.

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One of their favorite works to read together and one of his most infamous works is a book called 121 Days of Sodom.

So think about that. You've got this giant, beautiful castle.

Think Hogwarts in the mountains, surrounded by forest.

And so they're like, we need to do something more fun.

So they decided to lock themselves into the castle for four months with four female brothel keepers.

The Rest Is History

The hosts described it as an extremely disgusting, boring, darkly funny novel that they had never managed to finish, noting its reputation as the most shocking work ever written and its status as a Penguin classic.

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the novel is The 120 Days of Sodom, which I've tried to read several times that have never managed to finish because it is so disgusting.

— Episode: 365. Le Marquis de Sade: Sex and Violenc...

Episode: 365. Le Marquis de Sade: Sex and Violence

The hosts described it as an extremely disgusting, boring, darkly funny novel that they had never managed to finish, noting its reputation as the most shocking work ever written and its status as a Penguin classic.

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the novel is The 120 Days of Sodom, which I've tried to read several times that have never managed to finish because it is so disgusting.

The 120 Days of Sodom, Tom, boring, disgusting, darkly funny, etc, described by Sartre as the most impure tale ever written since the world began.

he writes 120 Days of Sodom ... at the end of 1785, it's the most shocking novel ever written, and it's designed to become ever more shocking.

philosophers and thinkers identified the 120 Days of Sodom as a prophecy of the Gestapo, of torture camps and death camps.

having been banned in 1989, it's now a Penguin classic.

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