SEXY!... fun read.

Of rogues and whores, weirdos and witches, pirates and highway men, spiced with eroticism and wit that leave your senses tingling and your mind pondering life and beyond. A must read for all women, mothers, feminists and witches out there and for all not-faint-hearted men.

There was such a sense of thrill about Fanny Hackabout Jones, I often could not tell where the heroine took off and where I took on.

Garbage

Couldn't get past first chapters...just awful. A waste of time. Weird style of writing too with words capitalized throughout the sentences where it makes no sense.

Go girl! Own thyself! Reading this book is one of my favorite things to do when I feel like the world sucks!

Too awful to continue

An interesting read. I got a bit bored with it by the end, as the constant perverted sex narrative got a bit same. I was not at all shocked by it all, it just got rather uninteresting.

Such a great parody of the 18th century picaresque novel -- from a woman's point-of-view! In the manner of Moll Flanders, Tom Jones, Tristam Shandy, and the novels of Fanny Burney. Erica Jong has written a witty, bawdy classic that should be a part of universtiy literature and women's history courses.

Wonderful. Explicit. Relevant. This book goes places that many books don't go, from dirty brothels to witches circles, Satanick cults, pyrate ships, gaols, and more. The psychological depth is raw, real, and relatable. Recommended.

This book was pretty astounding. Very rarely have I reacted to a book with as much gusto - and I'm not talking about tears and laughter here, I'm talking about flat out shock. In terms of fiction, I've never had a book startle me as much as this one did and I loved it all the more for it. Erica Jong wrote this in such a manner that I truly believed she was Fanny Hackabout-Jones. She said in the beginning that she would keep no modesty, and she kept true to her word. The events in this book had ways of simultaneously disgusting and arousing me but ultimatley making me truly care for, and hate, the same ones that Fanny did. Fanny wanted to teach Belinda, her daughter, all the things she had learned in the world. At the very least, I think she succeeded in teaching me.

I finished this book in a couple of days. A book based in the 1700's about a young girl who goes on many adventures. She is an orphan, a pirate, a woman-of-ill-repute, and a mother. I would recommend this, but remember, I'm still embarrassed about reading it. It is sort of an historical romance with a lot of sex. It's Erica Jong!

Really loved this book. Very fun. Like a female Flashman adventure. (The Flashman novels by George MacDonald Fraser are really fun.)