Originally written in French, the dialogue is choppy, surreal and desperately descriptive. The Biblical story is turned into a tale of lust, denial, female power and its suppression, and perverse attractions.
If you're expecting a witty tea-room drama like 'The Importance of Being Ernest', this is definitely not the play for you. Salome employs staccato sentences with long, surreal descriptions filled with flowing adjectives. The characters are introspective, openly lustful, and dwell in a Byzantine-esque court, living out their fantasies. Perverse attractions reign: Herod's lusts for his wife's daughter as does a Syrian in the court; she for the frigid prophet Iokannan; the Syrian's friend lusts for him. Murder and suicide is triggered. In my opinion none of the characters are entirely likeable, but their bizarre story is fascinating ...
Advantages: Entertaining subject, engagingly written, very amusing in parts. Disadvantages: Loses interest towards the end.
Want to make yourself irresistible to women? Fancy being a master of seduction?
This book is the story of a man who learnt how, who learnt the secrets of the Game.
Neil Strauss wasn't exactly your prototypical loveless loser, but then he wasn't terribly irresistible either. An everyman of the dating game, with ever-declining hair and glasses, the initial change involved a makeover into the shiny-bonced, sharply goateed figure gracing the cover of The Game. The physical transformation, however, was only the first and the easiest of the alterations Strauss would make.
Months later, he was living in the daddy of bachelor pads, hanging out with models, dating a string of beautiful women and chatting up Britney Spears. Not bad for a balding journalist on the less youthful side of thirty.
It's certainly an enticing prospect as ...
Advantages: Adds moisture Disadvantages: Not a miracle cream
Coryse salome serum lift
Ever a sucker for anti ageing products, I bought almost the whole range of these products firm in the belief that if I was using all of the same make, then the effects would be magnified!
**What is it?**
This is apparently the ?ultimate? serum for keeping your age a secret! It will give an immediate lifting effect and has a long term anti wrinkle action as well as rebuild skin?s support. Eventually, with use, it promises to firm facial features and preserve youth. So, maybe i should have started to use it years ago or it will just preserve the here and now...
**Product and Packaging**
The serum comes in a box with information and instructions on the back and a leaflet detailing other products in the range inside the box.
The serum itself is in a glass 30ml jar with a pull off cap and a press ...