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    Candy

    By Lawrence Block

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    About this ebook

    When a married businessman falls for a small-town minx, his obsessive love will spur him to give up anything to have her
    Jeff Flanders has a nice little job, a nice little wife, and absolutely nothing to get excited about. All that goes down the drain when he meets Candy, a small-town girl who looks as sweet as her name, but is bitter to the core. She offers him her body—the best he’s ever seen—for the bargain price of $1,000, and he can’t refuse. The affair turns Jeff’s world inside out, and he takes to her like she’s a drug, giving up half his paycheck every week for the privilege of taking Candy to bed.
    But when Candy finds a new keeper on Park Avenue, Jeff’s life spins out of control. His addiction to Candy will drive him to do anything to get her back—even kill.
    This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lawrence Block, including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from his personal collection, and a new afterword written by the author.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateMar 15, 2011
    ISBN9781453212196
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    Lawrence Block

    Lawrence Block is one of the most widely recognized names in the mystery genre. He has been named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America and is a four-time winner of the prestigious Edgar and Shamus Awards, as well as a recipient of prizes in France, Germany, and Japan. He received the Diamond Dagger from the British Crime Writers' Association—only the third American to be given this award. He is a prolific author, having written more than fifty books and numerous short stories, and is a devoted New Yorker and an enthusiastic global traveler.

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    • 4/5
      I have to give this one 4 stars --- just for the cover. It must have been a thing, back in the day, to re-cover every teenage boy fantasy with a more appropriate cover that met the disregard of one's parents. I'm lucky enough to own a copy of Candy covered (appropriately enough?) with "It's a World, World, World, World Mad" (Signet D2764). I'd love to read it but don't really want to touch it.
    • 1/5
      Stupendously, unbelievably awful. Candy Christian is a beautiful, naïve, well-intentioned young student whose trusting nature gets her into all sorts of misadventures, most of which don't involve a whole lot of clothes. If you think that this would be a pretty good set-up for a sharp satire on sixties youth culture, you'd be right. Alternately, this could have been a kind of naughty picaresque: Forrest Gump, if he looked like Jane Mansfield. But just everything about this book is wrong. Candy herself is less "naïve" than straight-up lobotomized, a living, breathing sex doll, and her adventures consist mostly of her getting naked with a bunch of long-winded college-professor types. Even the hippie satire stuff doesn't really work until the book's final scene, where Candy's utter lack of personality gets turned into a sort of zen vacuity. Otherwise, what you're left with is some Jewish-themed humor that hasn't aged all that well and a bunch of regrettable slang terms for female genitalia (jelly-box, sugar scoop, and much worse). Oh, and the anecdote that apparently Terry Southern hadn't even read Voltaire's "Candide" before writing this one, and only picked it up and noticed the parallels after his book became a hit. That's a good one, but books with this much sex in them shouldn't be this boring. And they certainly don't have to be this creepy. This is the sort of book that gives smut a bad name.
    • 1/5
      I have no idea what I just read.

      I picked this up because Terry Southern was involved in the creation of Barbarella, so I thought I'd give this book a shot and see what a Terry Southern version of Candide would look like.

      As it turns out, it would look like a 60s porn film. Or like Barbarella without reputable acting or a requirement to pass censors....or even a hint of a plot.

      Of course, it's also outdated and the depiction of clueless Candy Christian is relentlessly annoying when reading in this day and age.

      Not for me.
    • 2/5
      Good grief!
    • 5/5
      Good Grief! Candy Christian is young, sweet, and beautiful. Candy is naive and she's selfless. All Candy wants is to give of herself. Which is good, because everybody--well, every man, at least--seems to need Candy. All except her daddy, that is.Candy, the novel, is the story of Candy, the girl's, path to enlightenment.Candy's journey begins at the feet of Professor Mephesto, the first of a series of deep and learned men at whose feet she will sit and whose wisdom she will absorb. Professor Mephesto not only teaches Candy that to give of oneself, fully, is the greatest privilege there is; he also gives her the opportunity to give of herself to him. Candy then extends her gift to the Mexican gardener. And to her uncle Jack--Good Grief, he's Daddy's identical twin! And when her journey of enlightenment takes her from Racine to New York's Boho streets, she finds a drooling, muttering hunchback also in need of her gift.Ultimately, Candy's journey takes her to Tibet, and there we discover that the whole book was the long and meandering set up for a disgusting, inevitable, and truly hilarious punchline. Oh, Good Grief...
    • 5/5
      A brilliantly funny novel. For the line "Give me your hump!" if nothing else.