My eyes sparked on the hot-pink paperback sexing up our neighbors’ suburban library: Xaviera Hollander’s barnstorming bestseller, The Happy Hooker: My Own Story.
A gluttonous reader in the pre-pubescent set, I knew romance, but I didn’t know hookers, and the deeply penetrating gaze of the courtesan in question clearly advised me that this candy-covered publication was not the fantasy of a child. I am not ashamed to say that I promptly stole the book and took the plunge, savage with curiosity, ravenous to explore the adult world and discover absolutely everything I didn’t know. I found it and then some, in the dry, heaving pages of this and every book I have ever gobbled.
I tore through the first chapter on a toilet. It was a dizzying odyssey, awash in a circus of non-denominational COD* sex and business acumen. As she explored her burgeoning talent and tanned her slinky, soon-to-be enterprising body by the soaking wet pool, the tri-sexual Madam X blew my mind, pardon the pun, by sharing the great mystery with her neighbor’s happily consenting dog.
My parents didn’t always know what I was reading, but thankfully, never censored me as long as I read. True to the power of the written word, I swallow books whole, and after I read them, am never quite the same.
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15 Responses to The Happy Reader
Ha! Oh, yes. I knew there was a reason I loved you!! Because at the exact same time, I was laying on a pink checked gingham bedspread in suburbia New Jersey reading the same book. My copy was the golden colored one with her portrait in the circle, not nearly as eye-catching as your pink one, but still. The scene with the dog, I will never forget.
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How did you get your copy? xo
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I am always late to the party, but I get there eventually… Apparently, we were all destined to meet! I stole my mother’s copy, and read it secretly when she was at work. Never told a soul… but that book (the same copy Jen had) blew the roof off my little red head! (hmm. that sounds different than intended) There are so many reason I love you ladies, but this just made my week! xoxo
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Happy to oblige, Dawn.
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Hi there! I just wanted to say that I really enjoyed this blog post of yours… Not just this one but all of them because they are all equally great.
I should mention that because of how much I loved this post of yours I had to check out your blog and I couldn’t help but follow you because your blog is both amazing and beautiful. I am so happy I came across your blog and found it because I do really love it and I truly can’t wait to read more from you, so keep it up (:
P.s. This comment is towards all of your blog posts because they are all equally amazing and incredible, keep up the great work (:
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Thank you and welcome, RedHeadedBookLover! I am tickled you are so enjoying my blog.
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I don’t know the book. But it seems like it gave you a great time.
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It is a bad book, but great after taste when you are 15. And bad is her way of writing. Sex scenes were o.k. though. Couple of those I still have in my box of memories
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Loved this one
Sent from my iPad
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Ha! I have the record.
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My mind would still be blown, most likely. I can’t imagine how that affected you back then. Ha! I was so ignorant as a kid. At what age did you read it?
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I also owned the book as a youngster, having stolen it from Newberry’s. Ours had the gold cover that was mentioned. I found the book horrifying, like Valley of the Dolls. Growing up during the Seventies and the Sexual Revolution put so much pressure on women to put out. In retrospect, I find the book “camp”, but my memories of the time so much less so.
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My vision of the gold/pink book is pre-pubescent; you are making me want to re-visit it. Welcome to BTF, Miss Dee!
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Incredible!
I started blogging this month, and it is a pleasure that I came across your blog.
It has inspired me to start my third article.
Thank you:)
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Nice to virtually meet you. Welcome.
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