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Unzipped: Proof That Power Really is the Ultimate Aphrodisiac: Proof That Power Really Is the Ultimate Aphrodisiac
by Anonymous
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Virgin Books (2006-08-24)
ISBN: 1852273011
EAN: 9781852273019
Hardcover: 240 pages
SKU: B414-1294
Condition: New
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Customer Reviews
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Mimi unmasked
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-08-13
The author remains anonymous but it's pretty obvious to anyone who frequented the Heathrow and Harlington establishments who Mimi is. She is based on a russian girl who used various working names when she was in the UK (illegally I might add) and passed herself off as being in her mid twenties when she was in fact 35 in the year this book was set (2005). You may remember her dear reader as Linda or Julia but I will not reveal her true identity. When will the follow up be published?
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A book to avoid
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-02-13
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Being a fan of the 'Babylon' books by Imogen Edwards-Jones and Anonymous, I was expecting a similar style of read, where humour and tales of naughteness blend into a entertaining read. (Yes, yes I know this is a different 'Anonymous', it is the style of books I am comparing not the authors!)
Alas this was nothing like that. The promise of a 'humorous...memoir' failed to be delivered - at no point did I detect any humour - either intentional or accidental.
Anonymous may have shown passion in the bedroom but he doesn't carry it over to his writing and therefore you end up with a bland series of bed hopping tales, the sort you can hear any Friday/Saturday night at your local pub but told in ways by people that you will find entertaining, laughable and realistic - for again I didn't get the feel of any kind of realism in this story, just a list of fantasties that the author would like to indulge in but probably hasn't.
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Political Sex Bomb! Yes please Sir!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2006-10-15
This short novel concisely illustrates all that is wrong yet funny and pleasurable in Downing Street today. The unkown author cunninly narates a story of his sex-ploits between trips to Westminster and Spearmint Rhino. This hilaroius tale of a misguided politican and his sexual adventures will cause dismay for the conservative and stimualtion for the liberal. I thorouhgly recommend this book to all readers.
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Woeful
Rating (1)
Date: 2006-08-24
5 out of 5 customers found this reveiw helpful
Really, what's the point? My colleague and I spent a desperately sad hour in Bond Street bookshops looking for this, and frankly it just wasn't worth the bother.
Given that it is tantalisingly advertised as "what really goes on in the corridors of power", if the anonymous author is ever unmasked (and he will be - there are many reference points, most so large you could hang a jacket on them) I will sue him under the Trades Description Act.
First, if having lunch in Parliament and strolling to the gift shop - as close as our hero gets to the hinted Parliamentary naughtiness - is somehow illicit, then rename me (and the other hundred or so tourists who do the same every day) Miss Whiplash.
Second, "shopping list" descriptions of sexual acts and prostitutes visited is not erotic. It's boring, and would be even if the whole book wasn't written in the style of a tax return.
Third, the constant pathetic assertion that the women enjoyed doing this seemed to point to a need to justify his actions to himself.
There was no sense of plot or even personal development. Just long, interminable, functional descriptions of champagne drunk/prostitutes bedded/subsequent self-justification. That's three hours of my life I'm not getting back. Boring and pointless.
Come to think of it, "boring and pointless" pretty much sums it up.
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Bad lads guide to sex in city
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-08-17
1 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
A Really great read. An amazing exposee on the Sex scene in London which involves Politicians and Lawyers in the highest ranks. It is amazing what these overpaid guys get up to when they are not with their wives. I really good book.
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