r/books discussion

At this point, I am asking myself does the book live up to its name? Is it only a famous classic because it was the first book of its kind? Is it the first of its kind? I found this book much stronger than anything that I have read recently, including Fifty Shades of Grey. Yet I was reading the novel's wikipedia's page: "It is not a complete novel. Only the first section is written in detail. After that, the remaining three parts are written as a draft, in note form, with Sade's footnotes to himself still present in most translations. Either at the outset, or during the writing of the work, Sade had evidently decided he would not be able to complete it in full and elected to write out the remaining three-quarters in brief and finish it later."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_120_...

Having read that, I wondered how much more in detail would have De Sade gone into, and why would he come back to it later?

I also found out I am not as perverted as I had thought.