>>12239839
His prose in works outisde of 120 days of sodom has actually p good romantic prose, read The Self-made Cuckold for instance.
Also he is good to introduce to you the heartbreaking idea that human beings are all ultimately evil, and you can read all his books subconsciously ignoring how invested you are in all the sex and cruelty (like the story of a girl who is being manipulated by her father and uncle into the idea of complete sexual openness and the freedom to do whatever you want if it feels good no matter what the consequences and at the end of it when her mother comes over to rescue her she tells her mother that she hates her and wants to keep fucking and they let a servant with syphilis rape the mother and then sew up her vagina with his diseased semen in it) and then reflect and be fucking disgusted at humanity and human nature and at de sade, knowing he too was a degenerate, but then finding out that he actually did have love for his family and goodness in him and that he wasnt in reality all for complete sexual freedom or his ideas that murder should be legal if you enjoy doing it etc.
120 days of sodom is unreadable for the most part, just a list of fetishes and very dry descriptions of cruelty like:
>A great connoisseur of arses and flogging summons a mother and daughter: he tells the daughter that if she does not agree to have both her hands cut off he will kill her mother; the little girl agrees and they are indeed cut off; he then separates these two creatures, stringing the girl up by the neck with her feet perched on a stool; tied around the stool is a another cord that leads into another room, where the mother is held; the mother is told to pull the cord – she does so without knowing what she is doing; she is promptly shown the fruits of her labour and as she is overcome with despair she is felled by a sabre to the back of the head.
Terrible book he wrote in prison just to have something whack off to