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The Education Of A Very Young Madam (2008)

by Ma-Ling Lee(Favorite Author)

2.96 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0743289757 (ISBN13: 9780743289757)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Scribner Book Company

review 1: Mediocre at best, this is a fast read and it does have a ring of truth to it. Having worked in the service industry for a long time in New York, I've been aware forever that the sex industry is a very different place in the higher tax brackets. Ms Lee's descriptions jibe with what I know of how things function in that world. The book is more centered on the mechanics of how the industry functions than on the day-to day nitty-gritty of life as a high end call girl though, so if you're looking for quasi-erotica, look elsewhere.The writing itself is poor and unpolished, but it actually kinda works here, lending credence to the claim of being written by an industry worker herself. Im utterly certain that the story has been sanitised and is biased in the author's favor, as such... more stories usually are. One must keep in mind here that the narrator is not always the most reliable witness. However the mechanical descriptions of how Ms Lee ran her operations is an interesting peek into how prostitution could function if lifted into legality under the law. Unchained from the underworld that keeps it steeped in drug use and violence, running such a business is a relatively simple matter. it seems more closely related to my own "home industry" of Taxi dispatch, or temp services, than the world of illegal gambling or the drug trade.
review 2: My name is Lola. I am the “Zoe” in Ma-Ling’s book. DO NOT BUY THIS JUNK, DO NOT ENCOURAGE THIS WOMAN!I have been abused and terrorised by this psycho for 2 years. I was the perfect victim, just got out of an 8 year relation with a pimp, just turned 26, I never lived a normal life. I was completely lost. I am from St-Michel’s neighbourhood in Montreal, I spent my teenage in a violent environment, and from 19 to 26 I ran the most successful and high rated agency in Montreal. We were called French Courtesans and toured various cities in the USA. For 6 years I worked 24/7 and generated over 500000$ a year which I handed to my “boyfriend” because I thought I couldn’t be loved otherwise. I finally left the guy and planned a tour to NYC and Boston. Ma-Ling called me to ask me to stop by in Jersey and work for her. I had visited her agency before. The few times I went she not only leave me no time to breath in the day, but also pick me up at night to party and made me see clients in the morning with no sleep and after using cocaine. On the last 2 days it was usual she would disappear. She actually fell asleep for days at a time and we missed all our appointments. I don’t know why I ever went back, I don’t have a good explanation.It lasted 2 years. Long story short: We decided to associate both agencies together, but I ended up running her business for her, while she taxed me out of all the cents I made. Ma-Ling is a hard-core crack addict. She always carries a 9mm gun with her and a Taser gun. She never leaves her bathroom; she is incapable of living, never the less operating a business. She kept me up all the time; she would lose her mind and accuse me of all kinds of nonsense. We had to move from hotel to hotel after she lost our apartment because she was convinced everybody around her was trying to kill her. She made me smoke crack for the first time. She mentally abused me like I never knew possible. She had an underage runaway girl working for her, if I didn’t manage to have the girl tell me her real age, who knows how long she would have been working? Ma-Ling kept this little girl around and made her smoke crack. I never had money, I was never rested, and she even stole my passport and IDs so I couldn’t go anywhere.After 2 years I was going to take the first bus to Montreal without even packing. I figured I rather spend a day getting questioned at customs than be with her for another minute. I told her my mom was sick and I needed to go home. She convinced me to go do one last tour in Boston.The last person I know she thought was out to get her = me. Worst is, I just wanted out. I wanted to get help and never look back. I had no fight left in me.Ma-Ling set me up. She left me in a hotel room pretending she needed to drive to NYC and left her gun in the bed. Since I was going to see customers, I picked up the gun and placed it in her suitcase. She called the cops while on the road. My 3pm was an undercover police officer. His team raided the room and partially search our bags. I was actually happy when I left with the police. I thought I had only a sex for a fee charge. Spent all weekend at the precinct only to find out I was going to be held in a Massachussetts jail under a gun charge for a 500 000$ bail (I am Canadian). I was looking at 9 months mandatory and possibly a year per bullet. The charges were dropped after I spent 4 months in jail for a reason so miraculous I’m not even gonna tell. I am very happy now, I have a great job, a great life, but I will always hate this woman. I hope she doesn’t destroy any more lives, it’s been enough. I believe she is truly evil.This book is only lies; the work of a crackhead who never sleeps and found out one day she could get a phone number and post ads on cheap websites, and call that an escort agency. She a great example of the reason why so many girls are deeply wounded and destroyed from working as prostitutes.Thank you for reading, Lola less

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