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Ordeal by Linda Lovelace, Mike McGrady
4.0

This is one of those stories that while it's totally fascinating and gripping, you feel a deep burn of guilt the whole way through - because everything that happens to Linda Lovelace is true. This is a memoir, written by Linda Lovelace - known as the porn star in Deep Throat, a movie that shot the porn industry into even more acclaim. Linda was manipulated and physically and emotionally abused by her boyfriend, and then husband, Chuck Traynor. She was forced at gunpoint to become a prostitute and you keep thinking it couldn't possibly get worse for - and then it does. I honestly don't know how she didn't find it in herself to end it all. What a brave lady.

This book made me so angry at the world, and in particular the men in it and i had such a hard time not getting up in the middle of the office, and kicking all the men in their nads. Just cause they were men.

I'm so sorry that Linda didn't have the amazing life she deserved following her brave escape from Traynor and the porn industry. She deserved so much more and the world and the people in it, let her down.