Belinda: Anne Rice writing as Anne Rampling

When I first bought Belinda, I was excited becase I had just finished Cry to Heaven, which I had absolutely fallen in love with. Nevertheless, I was really disappointed in the beginning of Belinda. It was really slow and had too many details. But as it drew to a close, that's when I couldn't put it down. The last half of the book was heart-clenching - it's just too bad the beginning didn't start out the same! Although I definitely recommend reading it.

I really enjoy Anne Rice and her pen name works. This book however was soooo boring I read to page 97, couldn't take anymore and skimmed the rest reading the end. I don't know what Jeremy did to Belinda in New Orleans, or Marty, Blair, G.G., Alex, Bonnie, Susan etc roles in the outcome. I just didn't care. I am so glad I only paid $1.50 at a used book store for this waste of time, I have never been so disappointed and bored numb. The age difference between Belinda and Jeremy didn't bother me which I was surprised, the only thing I guess is that the "eroticism" was so bland and vanilla I missed it somewhere. Please save your money, I have no idea what these other reviewers are going on and on about unless they have never read Rice at her erotic best in the Beauty Trilogy.

Although promising of explicit kinky sex with underage teen beauties, this proved to be more of a story on the politics of hollywood - with very little underage sex, and even less kink. The main character is a perv, and it's the little girl aspect of Belinda that appeals to him, not really anything about HER as a person, or individual.
Worth a few laughs, but otherwise just several hundred pages of letdown.

getting this book i was thinking to myself, i love erotic books, i like most of anne rice's vampire chronical, her writing's pretty good when it comes to being sensual - what can go wrong?! well apparently this book's a serious evident to what can go wrong.
a story of a 44 year old artist who falls for a sexy pretty teenages who's also indipendet, smart and only want him yto love her. excuse me?! where's the dilema? isn't this just about every man's midlife crsise thing? there's a lot of art talk in this book, which being an artist myself seemed shallow and [silly] to me. i don't see the big contrivercy of an older men sleeping with a younger woman, i mean very since woody elen-sue ying thing it has been prove that people recover quite easaly from that getting out, i just couldn't see the dilema.
as the book go we learn more and more about the misterious belina (nothing that doesn't fall into place and isn't extramly predictable) making her the perfect completly unrealistic charecter (having that much education, compassion and no will of her own exept for everyone to basicly be happy) and the book just goes on and on without one surpis or twist or anything.
this isn't an erotic book, it has no actual sex dscription in it and i didn't find it turning on in any way, at some point i just went on reading cause i just hoped lestat would enter that book at some point and kill everyone or somthing.
if you want to read erotics, read de-sade or laura antoniue or gorge bettile, if you want to read anne rice go to any one ofher noumerious books, this is just one big bore.

This book was so stupid that I kept reading hoping that it would turn around. More than half way through the book I realized that was not going to happen. When I typed in that I wanted to read an erotica book, "Belinda" popped up. Although there were a few negative reviews I still bought it. What a mistake! The book has no eroticism in it. The love scenes were very underdeveloped and boring. I felt like I was reading a book written by a nun! The book borders on child pornography because I just could not get over a 40-something year-old man who was so enamoured with a 16-year-old girl who in the beginning of their relationship he insisted on her dressing in very innocent and childish type nightgowns so he could paint her and then make love to her. Please don't waste your money. Listen to the negative reviews. Those who gave it positive reviews...I think they may be referring to another book with the same title.

"Lolita a la lousy, December 30, 1999" by "A Customer" says it all. This was the most boring book I have ever read. The only reason I read the whole thing is because a friend insisted...but it took me EIGHT MONTHS to slog through.