rying to read crimes of love by marqui de sade.
I always liked The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Licentiousness (Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage, novel, 1785, pub. 1904) and Justine, or Good Conduct Well Chastised (Justine ou les Malheurs de la vertu, novel, 2nd version of Justine, 1788, pub. 1791)
They both read better in the French somehow. Hey, its how I passed my grad school language requirement was by translating a chapter of each.