The Happy Hooker

Written by Xaviera Hollander

Narrated by Xaviera Hollander

Xaviera Hollander’s life as a call girl and Madam in the US was captured here in her frank 1971 landmark book. Whether this open account is a valid contribution to positive writing about sex at a time when this was a rare phenomena or an unnecessarily racy telling to titillate, it cannot be denied that it makes compulsive listening especially with the author’s own voicing.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Jan 1, 2014
• ISBN: 9781780001821

Xaviera Hollander

Xaviera Hollander's first book, The Happy Hooker, was published in 1972; since then it has been translated into fifteen languages and sold millions of copies around the world. Hollander began writing the column Call Me Madam in Penthouse that same year -- a role she fulfills to this day -- and has been named the magazine's most popular columnist. Now a promoter of the arts in her native Holland and the author of more than a dozen books, she divides her time between Spain and Amsterdam.

[Seran · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Not good. A waste of time to read. She’s very biased

[jennysbookbag.com · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

My aunt told me about this book and said "don't ever read it" so of course I had to read it.

[ericcostello-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Probably more about the operations of the world's oldest profession than you might want to know; and some of it like to be taken with a grain of salt. Still, perversely (!) entertaining in its own way.

[kitten0a0gogo · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Found this book to be interesting but did not have much depth to it... great short read for a bus trip i was on but didnt have much interest to keep it after that... Good for a one time read well written and definately from a one person perspective... Good look into a world that exists that many of us have little knowledge of

[theoriginaldork · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

I love the story of how I found this book: I was at the campus library book sale my freshman year of college and I was searching through the tables for anything promising looking. A woman with an Eastern-European accent who looked to be in her mid-40s handed me a copy of this book and told me I would like it. Yes - I bought a book recommended to me by some random stranger who I'd never seen before or since.

The book itself is hilariously trashy. This book was reprinted a few years ago, but apparently the new edition omits a few choice scenes. You'll have to search around for the '70s version if you want to get the full effect.