From letters signed by Disney himself to classic children’s books or ephemera, be sure to check out some of the collectible Walt Disney books on Biblio!

Honest, raw, fun, shocking, sad, brutal, sweaty-bad in many moments, sweaty-good in others--a human story that transcends its subject matter simply because it is so monumentally bare in all of its aspirations, trappings, glory, and more. What began as a lark–some "modeling" for easy money–turned into a decade-long career in adult films.Absolutely laid bare with incredible confessions and a broken heart bleeding warmth out of ambition and pain. Last time I felt what I'm feeling right now, I had just finished watching Blow starring Johnny Depp. I loathe the attitudes about women and their sexuality that I believe Small's specific genre of pornography perpetuates, but I do respect her willingness to expose herself by writing a memoir. The drugs alone she and he friends and bf took were enough to kill your average elephant, never mind a human, I suspect.

I‘m talking about the thieves, whores, prisoners, con artists or all kinds of people who have coke for dinner. I've read a couple of pornstar memoirs before and they were pretty much as expected - badly written, dumb, faux-sexy, self-serving, dishonest or sickeningly redemptive. She thought for a moment it was Patch Adams and was preparing to endorse your selection wholeheartedly. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Oriana Small’s Girlvert: A Porno Memoir is like a blistering war memoir, with penises instead of bayonets.

I knew that she'd been to art school, and it showed: she had the ability to turn the genre on itself, to make the (male) viewer feel that he there was a certain sort of honesty to what she was doing on camera but that he was sort of a creep for watching her do it. She's a product of drug addicted parents and she went on to become a binge eating bulimic at twelve and a drug abuser soon after. I thought that‘s quite weird since she should know best how bad it is to be confronted by prejudices and contempt. From accolades to agony, GIRLVERT illuminates the surreality of a life lived beyond all comprehension. The perversity of porn is that the sex is not simulated which I get - but still I draw the line at women being forced to do humiliating things.

Readers (or viewers) will have to make up their own minds there, but it's good to see that Oriana had come through it all in a pretty good place when she wrote "Girlvert.

Small specialize in doing all the hard-core porn performances and her approach to doing these scenes are interesting in that she is always rebelling something out of her past. I'm not saying that I am completely comfortable with the greater implications of gonzo porn (or any porn, for that matter)—because I'm not—and frankly I don't need to be. Plus, with chapter titles such as "Spring Chicken", "Tyler's Blue Pill and Ashley's Little Brown Predicament", "Judge Mathis", "A NIGHT WITH MAX HARDCORE", and my personal favorite, "Pissmop", you're going to get something out of this.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I admire the boldness of Small for just *saying* everything she does, and I enjoy the way she worked the overall tone of the book. Released in 2011, Girlvert has become a cult classic, this is from the original print run and was never printed like this again.I'm going to level with you and admit that I knew exactly who Ashley Blue was before this one was even published. Modeling and recreational sex -- Trent and Ashley -- Dirty debutante -- Breaking me in -- Spring chicken -- Jolly Roger -- Double anal -- Tyler's blue pill and Ashley's little brown predicament -- Ecstasy dealers? It occasionally dips into the past, psychological reasoning, ethical dilemmas, or philosophical quandaries about pornography, however, too often these come as asides or rhetorical questions asked in the dark. Then finally, after 6 years in the business, she finds someone who seems to actually care for her and fills her with confidence rather than a mixed bag of bodily fluids.