Xaviera Goes Wild

by Xaviera Hollander, Xaviera

Book by XAVIERA HOLLANDER

Genres: Erotica

365 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published July 1, 1974

About the author

Former prostitute and brothel keeper.

She was born in Indonesia to a Jewish father and a Dutch mother. After world war II she moved to Amsterdam.

She later moved to South Africa and New York city where she became a prostitute

Reviews

[Philip · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was my introduction to erotica. It was 1979 - I was on Marion Island part of the expedition team who goes there every year for 12 - 14 months. All men in those days - 18 of us. Somehow this book was in our library. South Africa was still trapped under the oppressive rigours of Calvinist/Afrikaner Nationalist/Anti-communist/Racist/Sexist mentality. You can imagine what an impact the book made on me. My jaw dropped - and I was never the same again. Most likely the book will not have the same steaming effect on me - but in those days, under those circumstances, with my background and cultural inhibitions - it was explosive.

Needless to say at the end of the 14 months - the book has done the rounds through all 18 of us - and it was falling to pieces. ;)

[Adil Patel · Rating 5 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book. Embarassed to say that it got me back into reading for fun. A very fun adventurous book that goes around the world. The book gave me insights into to places to visit in the future as well as a unique perspective on places that I travelled to.

[Jesus Enrique · Rating 4 out of 5]

Más de la la prostituta en detalle

[Circa Girl · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm a big fan of Xaviera. I loved 'The Happy Hooker' and the sequel memoir 'Xaviera!' because Xaviera Hollander manages to live many lives by her mid-twenties and goes on many adventures, while also being wise beyond her years, educated, rebellious, kind-hearted, bad-ass, sexy, beautiful, romantic, popular, sophisticated, rich and living a fabulous jet-set, 60s' bourgeois lifestyle. She was basically a racier, female equivalent of James Bond- men wanted her, women wanted to BE her and she escaped many dangers and follies of a very misunderstood industry. However, this third memoir even sixty pages in shows signs of being a cash-in on her lingering popularity or infamy without having much substance.

I'm not a prude and I can appreciate good erotica, but this memoir is just literary belt notches around Europe. It's a bit boring and Xaviera should never be boring. Her intimate encounters have always come off very clinical and follow a mind-numbing play by play "and then this happened and he inserted this here,etc," but I was able to look past that in her earlier memoirs because this kind of content didn't swallow up the whole book. Too bad this is like 90% of this one.