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...At this moment a tame linnet flew towards her, nestled its head between her breasts, and nibbled them in wanton play...

- The Monk, Mathew Gregory Lewis

...I think this has displaced The Lancashire Witches as the finest bad novel I have read this year. I particularly liked the way every single male hero was anti-clerical, in a novel set in Spain some time before the Reformation. Also the diabolus ex machina. Also the heavy-handed eroticism, mostly at right angles to the actual erotic: see above.

(Context? You want context?)