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- Anais Nin’s Little Birds is published in Penguin Modern Classics.Anais Nin’s second volume of erotic short stories after Delta of Venus, Little Birds is broader in scope, encompassing the entire breadth of human sensuality.
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Provocative and superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex and sensuality. From the beach towns of Normandy to the streets of New Orleans, these thirteen vignettes introduce us to a covetous French painter, a sleepless wanderer of the night, a guitar-playing gypsy, and a host of others who yearn for and dive into the turbulent dept...more
Published March 1st 1979 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P (first published 1979)
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Mar 15, 2008Nora toomey rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
this is how I learned about sex. Thanks mom and dad for owning it! Also, I stole it from you.
Sep 26, 2014Lukas Prytikin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
PEOPLE ARE WASTING THEIR TIME NOWADAYS WITH AN OVERLOAD OF TOTALLY INSIGNIFICANT, SHALLOW EROTICA-BOOKS ! ANAIS NIN IS A GODDESS OF MASTERFULLY WRITTEN, DARK EROTICA - HER CHARMING VULNERABILITY AND PERSONAL HONESTY IS PART OF HER POETRY ! SOME OF THE THINGS SHE HAS WRITTEN ABOUT HAVE THE POWER TO BE SOMETIMES DISTURBING BUT THEY ARE ALSO A UNIQUE TESTIMONY ABOUT ANAIS NIN AS A PERSON, THE WOMAN SHE BECAME, THE WOMAN SHE WAS ! ALL THAT IS MEANINGFUL AND PROFOUNDLY MOVING ! (L.prytikin)
Dec 24, 2008Amanda rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I give Little Birds four stars in comparison to Delta of Venus' two, though as a stand alone, it would probably only get 2 or 3. There are almost no disgusting and despicable sex scenes in Little Birds, and for this, I am grateful. (As it turns out, I'm a bit prudish after all...)
Little Birds is set in various places around the world, but quite often set in New York and New Orleans. It feels more modern than Delta of Venus. It feels more aware, more present. And this, my second dip into a colle...more
Nov 08, 2012Ian 'Marvin' Graye rated it really liked it · review of another editionLittle Birds is set in various places around the world, but quite often set in New York and New Orleans. It feels more modern than Delta of Venus. It feels more aware, more present. And this, my second dip into a colle...more
Shelves: reviews-4-stars, reviews, read-2015, miller-nin-jong
In Full Flight
The titular birds feature in polar opposite contexts in this collection of erotica.
In the first story, Marcel rents an attic with a terrace. He feeds the birds, so as to attract the attention of schoolgirls across the road. Having won their trust, he exposes himself to the girls, after which they take fright and run away, like little birds.
In the last story, a runaway 16 year old girl, Jeanette, finds physical shelter with Jean and Pierre. She wants to have a few men to herself. 'O...more
Dec 01, 2007Kitty rated it it was amazing · review of another editionThe titular birds feature in polar opposite contexts in this collection of erotica.
In the first story, Marcel rents an attic with a terrace. He feeds the birds, so as to attract the attention of schoolgirls across the road. Having won their trust, he exposes himself to the girls, after which they take fright and run away, like little birds.
In the last story, a runaway 16 year old girl, Jeanette, finds physical shelter with Jean and Pierre. She wants to have a few men to herself. 'O...more
Recommends it for: adults interested in intelligent erotica
This book, along with it's companion book (they run together in my mind and am talking about both here), Delta of Venus, are wonderfully evocotive erotic stories. They are never the wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am stuff of porn magazines. Sometimes magical, sometimes freaky, with a European sensibility, these stories are softly spellbinding. I can't help but get caught up in them whenever I pick up these books. Elena, Pierre, Leila, the Basque and Bijou, what a cool group of characters! And there are s...more
Mar 14, 2010Cheryl Anne Gardner rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
This little book of short stories is by far some of the finest erotica ever written. Nin is a true master of love, lust, and the body’s betrayal of our innermost desires. Nin writes with a simple elegance. Never overdoing the imagery, we get just what we need to feel the work without a crass microscopic examination. Nin plunges deeply into the psyche of her characters, and we get more than an up-close and personal intimate glimpse of their inner turmoil as they struggle to break free of their se...more
Oct 09, 2017Alex rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I found this less subversive than her more famous collection, Delta of Venus. That book I compared to 'a kitty who rolls on her back for you and you reach out to rub her stomach and she shreds your hand with no warning.' This one is a little more, like, you want sexy stuff, here's the sexy stuff.
I mean, sortof. It's all still pretty weird. Nin leaves no kink unkinked. She deals with power imbalances a lot. She investigates the concept of consent. She is nonjudgmental. If you aren't equally nonj...more
I mean, sortof. It's all still pretty weird. Nin leaves no kink unkinked. She deals with power imbalances a lot. She investigates the concept of consent. She is nonjudgmental. If you aren't equally nonj...more
Feb 16, 2011Monique rated it liked it · review of another edition
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
Dec 17, 2010Sabra Embury rated it really liked it · review of another edition
This book would be a great read for someone too conservatively raised to appreciate visual pornography for its valuable lessons in learning how to be comfortable with yourself or your partner. It would be a valuable read for someone who did not know how to caress his or her partner to get them aroused for sex.
If someone's fifteen-year-old son asked their mom or dad what sex was all about, first it would be wise to tell them about reproduction, how to avoid it until ready, venereal diseases, and...more
If someone's fifteen-year-old son asked their mom or dad what sex was all about, first it would be wise to tell them about reproduction, how to avoid it until ready, venereal diseases, and...more
Sep 03, 2008Joshua rated it liked it · review of another edition
I found this book long after discovering 'Delta of Venus' as a boy on someone's book shelf. I read 'Little Birds' as an adult and I believe it should be taken in tandem with the former rather than separately.
What I can say is that thanks to encountering Anias Nin as a boy, I grew up viewing sexuality and sexual attraction as something that takes place mostly in the mind and it is that tension that she describes, between desire and fear/exhileration, and the surrender that her characters often g...more
Oct 26, 2016Faye rated it really liked it · What I can say is that thanks to encountering Anias Nin as a boy, I grew up viewing sexuality and sexual attraction as something that takes place mostly in the mind and it is that tension that she describes, between desire and fear/exhileration, and the surrender that her characters often g...more
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Read: October 2016
Overall rating: 4/5 stars
For me Anais Nin has been a very unpredictable author to read; some of her books (Under a Glass Bell & Collages) I have absolutely loved, others I have loathed (Delta of Venus), while her book of essays (In Favour of the Sensitive Man) left me a bit 'meh.'
After the first story in this collection I was afraid that Little Birds would fall into the 'loathe' category but thankfuly Nin veered away from the pedophilic undertones in the remaining stories,...more
Overall rating: 4/5 stars
For me Anais Nin has been a very unpredictable author to read; some of her books (Under a Glass Bell & Collages) I have absolutely loved, others I have loathed (Delta of Venus), while her book of essays (In Favour of the Sensitive Man) left me a bit 'meh.'
After the first story in this collection I was afraid that Little Birds would fall into the 'loathe' category but thankfuly Nin veered away from the pedophilic undertones in the remaining stories,...more
Apr 16, 2010Adrienne rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Ok first up I bought this knowing that it contained stories that are also in The Delta of Venus and Eros Unbound, so I guess out of 13 stories I've already read 6 most of which I love and adore and would read agian over and over. The remaining 7 left me feeling a little disappointed, the verve seems to have gone, the exquisite delicacy and graceful writing and words, vanished, the languidity replaced by a sense of urgency. Perhapes by the time she wrote these she was bored to tears of writing er...more
Feb 24, 2011Emily May rated it it was ok · review of another edition
I found this incredibly boring when compared to the eroticism and sensuality of Delta Of Venus. I was expecting far more from Anais Nin, especially when regarding a field that she had so much expertise in.
The thing is, erotica is one of those things that is so hard to suffer through when it's dull... there's just no pretending otherwise; and these stories were very similar, caresses followed by a very scientific depiction of oral sex. Sorry to say it did nothing for me.
The thing is, erotica is one of those things that is so hard to suffer through when it's dull... there's just no pretending otherwise; and these stories were very similar, caresses followed by a very scientific depiction of oral sex. Sorry to say it did nothing for me.
Apr 16, 2017Michael Jandrok rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
'Little Birds' and it's sister volume, 'Delta of Venus' were ubiquitous in suburban homes towards the late 70's and early 80's. The simple reason for this was the prevalence of book clubs during this period of time. It seemed like every house had a set of these books sitting slyly on the shelf somewhere. I know that my mother certainly had a set, which I was carefully forewarned against reading until I was 18 years old. So of course I skimmed through them at every opportunity looking for the nau...more
Mar 31, 2015Aubariah rated it did not like it · review of another edition
This is bad erotica. In 13 stories only one focuses on two people screwing because they like it. I read the whole thing and here are the stories (spoilers aplenty):
1. Open with pedophilia
2. Magic mystery sex with a stranger who romantically recounts being raped in a crowd while watching a hanging.
3. Main character Lina just needs a bit of rape to get her to like sex.
4. Adorable tales of boys molesting their little sisters, and how it leads to a vigorous incestuous sex life.
5. This one is just bo...more
Nov 09, 2014Vipassana rated it it was amazing · review of another edition1. Open with pedophilia
2. Magic mystery sex with a stranger who romantically recounts being raped in a crowd while watching a hanging.
3. Main character Lina just needs a bit of rape to get her to like sex.
4. Adorable tales of boys molesting their little sisters, and how it leads to a vigorous incestuous sex life.
5. This one is just bo...more
Shelves: erotica, fiction, owned-books, female-perspectives
My first piece of erotica and after Little Birds, both my opinion of Anais Nin and the bar for erotica is very high.
Several people believe that sex is purely physical. I see this as a deliberate dissociation from the vulnerability that desire creates in us. Our society and culture, apart from feeding our own self preserving tendencies also 'encourages us to acknowledge very little of who we normally are in the act of sex', as Alain de Botton said.
Anais Nin's writing is absent of any such preten...more
Several people believe that sex is purely physical. I see this as a deliberate dissociation from the vulnerability that desire creates in us. Our society and culture, apart from feeding our own self preserving tendencies also 'encourages us to acknowledge very little of who we normally are in the act of sex', as Alain de Botton said.
Anais Nin's writing is absent of any such preten...more
Nov 09, 2013Chris White rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
“We don’t see people as they are. We see people as we are.”
Anais Nin, at her best, is a writer who presents snapshots of erotica, cleverly written, poetic and raw – she is the foremother of flash fiction. Anais Nin’s Little Birds is Anais Nin at her best. From the introduction – which is in itself a great story to read, telling as it does of her struggles for money amd the necessity of her writing erotica – to the last story in this collection, Little Birds is a collection of great stories, of p...more
Anais Nin, at her best, is a writer who presents snapshots of erotica, cleverly written, poetic and raw – she is the foremother of flash fiction. Anais Nin’s Little Birds is Anais Nin at her best. From the introduction – which is in itself a great story to read, telling as it does of her struggles for money amd the necessity of her writing erotica – to the last story in this collection, Little Birds is a collection of great stories, of p...more
Jun 01, 2017Roman Clodia rated it really liked it · review of another edition
With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.
Nin writes about desire and pleasure with imagination and a kind of full-body sensuality. These short stories sometimes feel too abbreviated, stopping abruptly rather than reaching a more natural conclusion. They must have been both shock...more
Nin writes about desire and pleasure with imagination and a kind of full-body sensuality. These short stories sometimes feel too abbreviated, stopping abruptly rather than reaching a more natural conclusion. They must have been both shock...more
Feb 20, 2012Janet rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Again, minor work by a major talent, her work-for-hire erotic fiction--it's a nice intro to the work of Nin, get your feet wet (so to speak.) Then move on to the major fiction--the unique early short works, Under a Glass Bell and Winter of Artifice, and the novels that comprise Cities of the Interior: Spy in the House of Love, Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross... then onto the Diaries, starting in 1931, go forward, then back to the early diaries Linotte. Then subscribe to Cafe in Space,...more
May 03, 2014M. Sarki rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I think Anais Nin was very courageous in her writing.
Jan 05, 2014anarki rated it really liked it · review of another edition
It was just last year that I read more about Anais Nin, and it was by then that I learned about her relationship with Henry Miller (one of my most favorite writers), which had an obvious impact to both their writings. Erotic, passionate, deeply intellectual, soul-stirring, so human—this was how the way the write. So during the last quarter of last year, I had bought her books, and reading them makes me understand further Henry Miller’s works. Also, I must say that for me, she is, by far, the bes...more
Mar 19, 2015Frances rated it really liked it · review of another edition
This book ruined my innocence.
Dec 12, 2011Melanie rated it liked it · review of another edition
I was missing France when I began reading this book, as my last memory of having read Anais Nin was when I was in Paris 2004 (Delta of Venus). I did not read any Nin for my 2006 Paris trip, but I remember still being affected by Delta of Venus. As it turns out, WHILE in the middle of reading Little Birds, I find I will be back in Paris next summer. Her writing takes me to 'another place' and I am ever so grateful
Jun 29, 2012Karen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
This book beats 50 shades of Grey into oblivion - beautifully written - a classic novel - and no stupid girl called Ana saying holy crap all the time...Anaïs Nin
Sep 05, 2008Erika rated it liked it · review of another edition
This book was interesting. I was surprised to come across it while browsing at the library. Who knew? I had read Delta of Venus years ago and remember thinking that it was interesting (and informative), but that the writing style felt a little stiff. I have found that I still feel that way, but that I had missed the insight into our natures that really are what make the work enduring.
May 03, 2013Kenya Wright rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
So....this was weird and sexy, but very weird...this short stories somewhat hard to swallow....no pun intended.
Apr 09, 2019Joanka rated it it was ok · review of another edition
If I read Anais Nin’s Little Birds some years ago or if I didn’t read so much fanfiction throughout my life, I believe I could be more affected by these short stories. I liked the way they were boldly erotic and that was their main purpose, as indicated in in the preface to my edition. It was my first encounter with Nin’s prose and I won’t risk any statements but I felt lots of honesty in the stories, I believe that the author truly enjoyed writing them, that she herself believed them to be exci...more
Jan 19, 2016Jonathan Rosas rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I happened to be reading two books of erotic short stories at the same time, alternating between the books after every story or two. The biggest difference between the two, and a big reason why I much preferred this one over the other, is that it’s not written pornography. What I mean is you’re not going to sit down and read some script for really bad porn. If anything it’s almost like reading the diaries of each character the stories are based off of, even though they all come from the mind of...more
Dec 05, 2012poiboy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Anais Nin is easily one of the highest tier of intelligent, smoothly clever and casually prolific erotica writers in modern literary history. the prologue to this collection of erotic short stories explains clearly how they came to be and why writers did so at the time. to even ponder a reality that she wrote most of this for pay and not for driven inner desire is impressive.
think on it like pulling off a term paper, that you have no real personal interest in, over a weekend. your 'teachers' ra...more
Jun 22, 2009Lindsey rated it it was ok · review of another editionthink on it like pulling off a term paper, that you have no real personal interest in, over a weekend. your 'teachers' ra...more
Shelves: short-fiction, totally-lame, read-in-2009
In the introduction to Little Birds, Anais Nin states in plain terms how difficult it was for writers to make a living, and then goes on to explain that many writers wrote erotic fiction as a means of supporting themselves in those difficult times (as we are all aware, sex sells). I don't know if this admission tainted my reading of the stories, but they all seemed pretty bland and under-developed. Though the stories all involved sex or arousal, I didn't necessarily find them all erotic, or even...more
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French-born novelist, passionate eroticist and short story writer, who gained international fame with her journals. Spanning the years from 1931 to 1974, they give an account of one woman's voyage of self-discovery. 'It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.' (from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. I, 1966)
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PEvocative and superbly erotic, Little Birds is a powerful journey into the mysterious world of sex and sensuality. From the beach towns of Normandy to the streets of New Orleans, these thirteen vignettes introduce us to a covetous French painter, a sleepless wanderer of the night, a guitar-playing gypsy, and a host of others who yearn for and dive into the turbulent depth...more
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Mar 15, 2008Nora toomey rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
this is how I learned about sex. Thanks mom and dad for owning it! Also, I stole it from you.
Sep 26, 2014Lukas Prytikin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
PEOPLE ARE WASTING THEIR TIME NOWADAYS WITH AN OVERLOAD OF TOTALLY INSIGNIFICANT, SHALLOW EROTICA-BOOKS ! ANAIS NIN IS A GODDESS OF MASTERFULLY WRITTEN, DARK EROTICA - HER CHARMING VULNERABILITY AND PERSONAL HONESTY IS PART OF HER POETRY ! SOME OF THE THINGS SHE HAS WRITTEN ABOUT HAVE THE POWER TO BE SOMETIMES DISTURBING BUT THEY ARE ALSO A UNIQUE TESTIMONY ABOUT ANAIS NIN AS A PERSON, THE WOMAN SHE BECAME, THE WOMAN SHE WAS ! ALL THAT IS MEANINGFUL AND PROFOUNDLY MOVING ! (L.prytikin)
Dec 24, 2008Amanda rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I give Little Birds four stars in comparison to Delta of Venus' two, though as a stand alone, it would probably only get 2 or 3. There are almost no disgusting and despicable sex scenes in Little Birds, and for this, I am grateful. (As it turns out, I'm a bit prudish after all...)
Little Birds is set in various places around the world, but quite often set in New York and New Orleans. It feels more modern than Delta of Venus. It feels more aware, more present. And this, my second dip into a colle...more
Nov 08, 2012Ian 'Marvin' Graye rated it really liked it · review of another editionLittle Birds is set in various places around the world, but quite often set in New York and New Orleans. It feels more modern than Delta of Venus. It feels more aware, more present. And this, my second dip into a colle...more
Shelves: reviews, read-2015, miller-nin-jong, reviews-4-stars
In Full Flight
The titular birds feature in polar opposite contexts in this collection of erotica.
In the first story, Marcel rents an attic with a terrace. He feeds the birds, so as to attract the attention of schoolgirls across the road. Having won their trust, he exposes himself to the girls, after which they take fright and run away, like little birds.
In the last story, a runaway 16 year old girl, Jeanette, finds physical shelter with Jean and Pierre. She wants to have a few men to herself. 'O...more
Dec 01, 2007Kitty rated it it was amazing · review of another editionThe titular birds feature in polar opposite contexts in this collection of erotica.
In the first story, Marcel rents an attic with a terrace. He feeds the birds, so as to attract the attention of schoolgirls across the road. Having won their trust, he exposes himself to the girls, after which they take fright and run away, like little birds.
In the last story, a runaway 16 year old girl, Jeanette, finds physical shelter with Jean and Pierre. She wants to have a few men to herself. 'O...more
Recommends it for: adults interested in intelligent erotica
This book, along with it's companion book (they run together in my mind and am talking about both here), Delta of Venus, are wonderfully evocotive erotic stories. They are never the wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am stuff of porn magazines. Sometimes magical, sometimes freaky, with a European sensibility, these stories are softly spellbinding. I can't help but get caught up in them whenever I pick up these books. Elena, Pierre, Leila, the Basque and Bijou, what a cool group of characters! And there are s...more
Mar 14, 2010Cheryl Anne Gardner rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
This little book of short stories is by far some of the finest erotica ever written. Nin is a true master of love, lust, and the body’s betrayal of our innermost desires. Nin writes with a simple elegance. Never overdoing the imagery, we get just what we need to feel the work without a crass microscopic examination. Nin plunges deeply into the psyche of her characters, and we get more than an up-close and personal intimate glimpse of their inner turmoil as they struggle to break free of their se...more
Oct 09, 2017Alex rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I found this less subversive than her more famous collection, Delta of Venus. That book I compared to 'a kitty who rolls on her back for you and you reach out to rub her stomach and she shreds your hand with no warning.' This one is a little more, like, you want sexy stuff, here's the sexy stuff.
I mean, sortof. It's all still pretty weird. Nin leaves no kink unkinked. She deals with power imbalances a lot. She investigates the concept of consent. She is nonjudgmental. If you aren't equally nonj...more
I mean, sortof. It's all still pretty weird. Nin leaves no kink unkinked. She deals with power imbalances a lot. She investigates the concept of consent. She is nonjudgmental. If you aren't equally nonj...more
Feb 16, 2011Monique rated it liked it · review of another edition
This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here.
Dec 17, 2010Sabra Embury rated it really liked it · review of another edition
This book would be a great read for someone too conservatively raised to appreciate visual pornography for its valuable lessons in learning how to be comfortable with yourself or your partner. It would be a valuable read for someone who did not know how to caress his or her partner to get them aroused for sex.
If someone's fifteen-year-old son asked their mom or dad what sex was all about, first it would be wise to tell them about reproduction, how to avoid it until ready, venereal diseases, and...more
If someone's fifteen-year-old son asked their mom or dad what sex was all about, first it would be wise to tell them about reproduction, how to avoid it until ready, venereal diseases, and...more
Sep 03, 2008Joshua rated it liked it · review of another edition
I found this book long after discovering 'Delta of Venus' as a boy on someone's book shelf. I read 'Little Birds' as an adult and I believe it should be taken in tandem with the former rather than separately.
What I can say is that thanks to encountering Anias Nin as a boy, I grew up viewing sexuality and sexual attraction as something that takes place mostly in the mind and it is that tension that she describes, between desire and fear/exhileration, and the surrender that her characters often g...more
Oct 26, 2016Faye rated it really liked it · review of another editionWhat I can say is that thanks to encountering Anias Nin as a boy, I grew up viewing sexuality and sexual attraction as something that takes place mostly in the mind and it is that tension that she describes, between desire and fear/exhileration, and the surrender that her characters often g...more
Shelves: short-story-collection, i-own-a-copy, reviewed, twentieth-century-classics
Read: October 2016
Overall rating: 4/5 stars
For me Anais Nin has been a very unpredictable author to read; some of her books (Under a Glass Bell & Collages) I have absolutely loved, others I have loathed (Delta of Venus), while her book of essays (In Favour of the Sensitive Man) left me a bit 'meh.'
After the first story in this collection I was afraid that Little Birds would fall into the 'loathe' category but thankfuly Nin veered away from the pedophilic undertones in the remaining stories,...more
Overall rating: 4/5 stars
For me Anais Nin has been a very unpredictable author to read; some of her books (Under a Glass Bell & Collages) I have absolutely loved, others I have loathed (Delta of Venus), while her book of essays (In Favour of the Sensitive Man) left me a bit 'meh.'
After the first story in this collection I was afraid that Little Birds would fall into the 'loathe' category but thankfuly Nin veered away from the pedophilic undertones in the remaining stories,...more
Apr 16, 2010Adrienne rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Ok first up I bought this knowing that it contained stories that are also in The Delta of Venus and Eros Unbound, so I guess out of 13 stories I've already read 6 most of which I love and adore and would read agian over and over. The remaining 7 left me feeling a little disappointed, the verve seems to have gone, the exquisite delicacy and graceful writing and words, vanished, the languidity replaced by a sense of urgency. Perhapes by the time she wrote these she was bored to tears of writing er...more
Feb 24, 2011Emily May rated it it was ok · review of another edition
I found this incredibly boring when compared to the eroticism and sensuality of Delta Of Venus. I was expecting far more from Anais Nin, especially when regarding a field that she had so much expertise in.
The thing is, erotica is one of those things that is so hard to suffer through when it's dull... there's just no pretending otherwise; and these stories were very similar, caresses followed by a very scientific depiction of oral sex. Sorry to say it did nothing for me.
The thing is, erotica is one of those things that is so hard to suffer through when it's dull... there's just no pretending otherwise; and these stories were very similar, caresses followed by a very scientific depiction of oral sex. Sorry to say it did nothing for me.
Apr 16, 2017Michael Jandrok rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
'Little Birds' and it's sister volume, 'Delta of Venus' were ubiquitous in suburban homes towards the late 70's and early 80's. The simple reason for this was the prevalence of book clubs during this period of time. It seemed like every house had a set of these books sitting slyly on the shelf somewhere. I know that my mother certainly had a set, which I was carefully forewarned against reading until I was 18 years old. So of course I skimmed through them at every opportunity looking for the nau...more
Mar 31, 2015Aubariah rated it did not like it · review of another edition
This is bad erotica. In 13 stories only one focuses on two people screwing because they like it. I read the whole thing and here are the stories (spoilers aplenty):
1. Open with pedophilia
2. Magic mystery sex with a stranger who romantically recounts being raped in a crowd while watching a hanging.
3. Main character Lina just needs a bit of rape to get her to like sex.
4. Adorable tales of boys molesting their little sisters, and how it leads to a vigorous incestuous sex life.
5. This one is just bo...more
Nov 09, 2014Vipassana rated it it was amazing · review of another edition1. Open with pedophilia
2. Magic mystery sex with a stranger who romantically recounts being raped in a crowd while watching a hanging.
3. Main character Lina just needs a bit of rape to get her to like sex.
4. Adorable tales of boys molesting their little sisters, and how it leads to a vigorous incestuous sex life.
5. This one is just bo...more
Shelves: owned-books, female-perspectives, erotica, fiction
My first piece of erotica and after Little Birds, both my opinion of Anais Nin and the bar for erotica is very high.
Several people believe that sex is purely physical. I see this as a deliberate dissociation from the vulnerability that desire creates in us. Our society and culture, apart from feeding our own self preserving tendencies also 'encourages us to acknowledge very little of who we normally are in the act of sex', as Alain de Botton said.
Anais Nin's writing is absent of any such preten...more
Several people believe that sex is purely physical. I see this as a deliberate dissociation from the vulnerability that desire creates in us. Our society and culture, apart from feeding our own self preserving tendencies also 'encourages us to acknowledge very little of who we normally are in the act of sex', as Alain de Botton said.
Anais Nin's writing is absent of any such preten...more
Nov 09, 2013Chris White rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
“We don’t see people as they are. We see people as we are.”
Anais Nin, at her best, is a writer who presents snapshots of erotica, cleverly written, poetic and raw – she is the foremother of flash fiction. Anais Nin’s Little Birds is Anais Nin at her best. From the introduction – which is in itself a great story to read, telling as it does of her struggles for money amd the necessity of her writing erotica – to the last story in this collection, Little Birds is a collection of great stories, of p...more
Anais Nin, at her best, is a writer who presents snapshots of erotica, cleverly written, poetic and raw – she is the foremother of flash fiction. Anais Nin’s Little Birds is Anais Nin at her best. From the introduction – which is in itself a great story to read, telling as it does of her struggles for money amd the necessity of her writing erotica – to the last story in this collection, Little Birds is a collection of great stories, of p...more
Jun 01, 2017Roman Clodia rated it really liked it · review of another edition
With her eyes alone she could give this response, this absolutely erotic response, as if febrile waves were trembling there, pools of madness... something devouring that could lick a man all over like a flame, annihilate him, with a pleasure never known before.
Nin writes about desire and pleasure with imagination and a kind of full-body sensuality. These short stories sometimes feel too abbreviated, stopping abruptly rather than reaching a more natural conclusion. They must have been both shock...more
Nin writes about desire and pleasure with imagination and a kind of full-body sensuality. These short stories sometimes feel too abbreviated, stopping abruptly rather than reaching a more natural conclusion. They must have been both shock...more
Feb 20, 2012Janet rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Again, minor work by a major talent, her work-for-hire erotic fiction--it's a nice intro to the work of Nin, get your feet wet (so to speak.) Then move on to the major fiction--the unique early short works, Under a Glass Bell and Winter of Artifice, and the novels that comprise Cities of the Interior: Spy in the House of Love, Ladders to Fire, Children of the Albatross... then onto the Diaries, starting in 1931, go forward, then back to the early diaries Linotte. Then subscribe to Cafe in Space,...more
May 03, 2014M. Sarki rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I think Anais Nin was very courageous in her writing.
Jan 05, 2014anarki rated it really liked it · review of another edition
It was just last year that I read more about Anais Nin, and it was by then that I learned about her relationship with Henry Miller (one of my most favorite writers), which had an obvious impact to both their writings. Erotic, passionate, deeply intellectual, soul-stirring, so human—this was how the way the write. So during the last quarter of last year, I had bought her books, and reading them makes me understand further Henry Miller’s works. Also, I must say that for me, she is, by far, the bes...more
Mar 19, 2015Frances rated it really liked it · review of another edition
This book ruined my innocence.
Dec 12, 2011Melanie rated it liked it · review of another edition
I was missing France when I began reading this book, as my last memory of having read Anais Nin was when I was in Paris 2004 (Delta of Venus). I did not read any Nin for my 2006 Paris trip, but I remember still being affected by Delta of Venus. As it turns out, WHILE in the middle of reading Little Birds, I find I will be back in Paris next summer. Her writing takes me to 'another place' and I am ever so grateful
Jun 29, 2012Karen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
This book beats 50 shades of Grey into oblivion - beautifully written - a classic novel - and no stupid girl called Ana saying holy crap all the time...Anaïs Nin
Sep 05, 2008Erika rated it liked it · review of another edition
This book was interesting. I was surprised to come across it while browsing at the library. Who knew? I had read Delta of Venus years ago and remember thinking that it was interesting (and informative), but that the writing style felt a little stiff. I have found that I still feel that way, but that I had missed the insight into our natures that really are what make the work enduring.
May 03, 2013Kenya Wright rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
So....this was weird and sexy, but very weird...this short stories somewhat hard to swallow....no pun intended.
Apr 09, 2019Joanka rated it it was ok · review of another edition
If I read Anais Nin’s Little Birds some years ago or if I didn’t read so much fanfiction throughout my life, I believe I could be more affected by these short stories. I liked the way they were boldly erotic and that was their main purpose, as indicated in in the preface to my edition. It was my first encounter with Nin’s prose and I won’t risk any statements but I felt lots of honesty in the stories, I believe that the author truly enjoyed writing them, that she herself believed them to be exci...more
Jan 19, 2016Jonathan Rosas rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
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I happened to be reading two books of erotic short stories at the same time, alternating between the books after every story or two. The biggest difference between the two, and a big reason why I much preferred this one over the other, is that it’s not written pornography. What I mean is you’re not going to sit down and read some script for really bad porn. If anything it’s almost like reading the diaries of each character the stories are based off of, even though they all come from the mind of...more
Dec 05, 2012poiboy rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Anais Nin is easily one of the highest tier of intelligent, smoothly clever and casually prolific erotica writers in modern literary history. the prologue to this collection of erotic short stories explains clearly how they came to be and why writers did so at the time. to even ponder a reality that she wrote most of this for pay and not for driven inner desire is impressive.
think on it like pulling off a term paper, that you have no real personal interest in, over a weekend. your 'teachers' ra...more
Jun 22, 2009Lindsey rated it it was ok · review of another editionthink on it like pulling off a term paper, that you have no real personal interest in, over a weekend. your 'teachers' ra...more
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Shelves: read-in-2009, short-fiction, totally-lame
In the introduction to Little Birds, Anais Nin states in plain terms how difficult it was for writers to make a living, and then goes on to explain that many writers wrote erotic fiction as a means of supporting themselves in those difficult times (as we are all aware, sex sells). I don't know if this admission tainted my reading of the stories, but they all seemed pretty bland and under-developed. Though the stories all involved sex or arousal, I didn't necessarily find them all erotic, or even...more
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French-born novelist, passionate eroticist and short story writer, who gained international fame with her journals. Spanning the years from 1931 to 1974, they give an account of one woman's voyage of self-discovery. 'It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.' (from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, vol. I, 1966)
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