Plot:
In the New York Times bestseller House of Holes, Nicholson Baker, "one of the most beautiful, original, and ingenious prose stylists to have come along in decades" (The New York Times Magazine), returns to the terrain that made him famous with a gleefully provocative, off-the-charts erotic novel that is unlike anything you've read—"a filthy tour de force" (Time).

Shandee finds a friendly arm at a granite quarry. Ned drops down a hole in a golf course. So begins Nicholson Baker's fuse-blowing sexual escapade—a modern-day Hieronymus Boschian bacchanal set in a pleasure resort where normal rules don't apply. House of Holes, one of the most talked-about books in recent memory, is a gleefully provocative novel sure to surprise, amuse, and arouse.

Thoughts:
What a smutfest! How I came upon this book, I can not remember anymore. It's been sitting in my virtual shelf for more than a year now. Picking it up and reading it? No regrets here.

The story starts as a girl named Shandee finds an arm - and it's alive. Right off from the start you get the impression that you are in for a ride at the crazy train.

In every chapter a character is introduce, and all of them have the mutual desire to go to the House of Holes, and they do. In a very interesting way. Through a washing machine, golf hole, sipping a straw... mainly anything that is a hole, you get the idea. Which I think is fantastic!

When they get to the House of Holes they are mostly greeted by Lila - she runs the place. She's really very nice.

Now what happens in the House of Holes? Anything and everything. Possibly one of your fantasies, honey. Yes, this is a sex book but it is not crass nor crude. To quote NY  Times, "It describes a happy, friendly, doofy, incredibly polite ("May I?") equal-opportunity playland where anybody can seemingly fulfill any sexual daydream, ideally while talking about it as graphically as possible."

The women in the book are not put in a situation we're they're hurt, objectified or ridiculed. They are treated as equals by the men. This book, dare I say, is pure entertainment. And it has the best ending - in a music festival!

Rating:
★★★★☆

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