Secret Diary of a Call Girl |  | Authors: Belle de Jour, Anonymous
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Product Description
This internationally celebrated memoir is now a new Showtime original series.
Belle couldn't find a job after University. Her impressive degree was not paying her rent or buying her food. But after a fantastic threesome with a very rich couple who gave her a ton of money, Belle realized that she could earn more than anyone she knew--by becoming a call girl. The rest is history. Belle became a 20-something London working girl--and had the audacity to write about it--anonymously. The shockingly candid and explicit diary she put on the Internet became a London sensation. She shares her entire journey inside the world of high-priced escorts, including fascinating and explicit insights about her job and her clients, her various boyfriends, and a taboo lifestyle that has to be read to be believed. The witty observations, shocking revelations, and hilarious scenarios deliver like the very best fiction and make for a titillating reading experience unlike any other.
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 Enlightening and Unique September 15, 2008
bionic oddity (Philadelphia, PA USA)
25 out of 27 found this review helpful
First off, I'd like to offset other reviewers' claims that this book misleadingly refers to prostitution as a safe and thrilling lifestyle. I think its important to say that this is a unique portrayal of ONE woman's life in sex work. She very clearly states that there are many levels of sex work and the vast majority are not safe, enjoyable, or beneficial in anyway. She obviously enjoys much of her work and simply because her experience does not fit the mold, does not mean she should be silenced.
Secondly, there are sex scenes in the book and they are to some degree explicit. Is this too much? Well considering the nature of the book, I think not. Considering the importance of the job to the book, so much so that it is in the very title and also the importance of her pseudonym, I think its quite understandable that sex should be a key element in the book. Isn't that part of the experience we are so intrigued by when it comes to this particular author?
Also, as one reviewer mentioned the previous relationship and friend-circle is not full of an extraordinary amount of depth. What we need to remember is that this is adapted from the author's blog. For some bloggers, myself included, other people's lives are their own to tell. We just tell what relates to us. I felt that Belle's interaction with her friends and ex-lovers were covered meaningfully and naturally.
This is a diary and by definition it's not the type of writing that will be layered with back story or references. Although meant to be read in the fashion that most blogs are nowadays, it is written with immediacy and often with the intent to be brief. Perhaps some years down the line the author will be interested in adapting it as an autobiography and then she'll decide to add relevant information, a new perspective now that she is removed from it by time, etc., but the very title acknowledges what the book is: a diary.
When it comes to getting what you paid for and what was advertised, you get it in this book.
Beyond that, my own observation is that the author is intelligent, witty, and has a unique and sometimes detached view of sex which is enlightening thing to see in a female writer.
I enjoyed the book. It's not a literary masterpiece, but it is much better than a good amount of popular new fiction.
Different, inspirational and truthful November 16, 2009
B. ESSI
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Most people wont agree with the terms I have used in my title but the truth is that this book is not for the light hearted. If you are not open minded you should probably skip it. It is written in a unique style and I believe it portrays the author in a unique manner. One of my favorites of all time so far.
Great Book :) June 1, 2010
Courtney Sullivan (Mount Laurel, NJ)
The book is definitely different from the show but not in a bad way. It is raunchy but that really should be expected in a book about a call girl. The diary format of the book made it easy to read and if I needed to put it down for some reason it also made it easy to do that. All in all a good book.
Great Show May 6, 2009
RedDragoniv
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Shows the REAL world of an escort. Not the stuff that most of us think are true. And it just fun to watch
 Different from the show, in a very good way. January 30, 2010
Jessica Starrs
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed the book. I actually read it after I watched the dvd series of the show, and I'm pleased I did. The two were nothing alike.
Though I found both enjoyable, the Showtime show was pretty "vanilla", and kind of fantasized with the character of Belle taking on a somewhat pricky and selective personality. Fun to watch and get lost in, and I imagine more acceptable to the mainstrem, but not very real.
The book was far more accurate on the life and woman who is Belle...and what one would assume a call girls life would be like. She is far more real and interesting and colorful than the showtime version. There is alot more sex, both for money and not for money, more explorative types of sex...same gener and bdsm (which on the show she does once and doesn't like and in the book, she adores!), and there is more drinking and choatic relationships then the well organized ones on the show. Even her parents are more colorful and down-to-earth.
I recommend it for people, women especially, who really like sex, are independent, and enjoy more non-traditional lifestyles.
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