Voyeur motel book

The Voyeur's Motel

January 16,

“I recognize a married man with two children who bought a twenty-one-room motel near Denver many years ago in order to become its resident voyeur. With his wife nearby to assist, he cut rectangular-shaped holes in the ceilings of a dozen rooms, each hole measuring six by fourteen inches. Then he covered the openings with louvered aluminum screens that simulated ventilation grilles, but were in fact, observation vents that allowed him, while he knelt or stood on the thickly carpeted floor of the attic, under the motel’s pitched roof, to see his guests in the rooms below. He continued to watch them for decades, while keeping an almost daily written record of what he saw and heard – and never once, during all those years, was he caught…”
- Gay Talese, The Voyeur’s Hotel

What am I doing? I asked myself, as I purchased Gay Talese’s The Voyeur’s Motel.

What am I doing? I asked myself, as I cracked the front cover.

What in the literal hell am I doing? I asked myself, as I began reading the “true” story of a man who bought a motel, insta

The Voyeur&#;s Motel

Grove Press

byGay Talese

On January 7, , in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor&#;s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous handwritten letter from a man in Colorado. &#;Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America,&#; the letter began, &#;I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to contents of a future book.&#;

The male went on to tell Talese an astonishing secret: he had bought a motel outside Denver for the express purpose of satisfying his voyeuristic desires. Underneath the peaked roof of his motel, the man had built an &#;observation platform,&#; fitted with vents, through which he could peer down on his unwitting guests.

Unsure what to make of this confession, Talese traveled to Colorado where he met the man—Gerald Foos—and verified his story in person. But because Foos insisted on remaining anonymous, preserving for himself the privacy he denied his guests, Talese filed his reporting away, assuming

On January 7, , in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor's Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a male in Colorado. "Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America," the letter began, "I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to contents of a future book." The man went on to tell Talese an astonishing secret, that he had bought a motel to satisfy his voyeuristic desires. He had built an attic "observation platform," fitted with vents, through which he could peer down on his unwitting guests.

Unsure what to make of this confession, Talese traveled to Colorado where he met the man--Gerald Foos--verified his story in person, and read some of his extensive journals, a secret record of America's changing social and sexual mores. But because Foos insisted on remaining anonymous, Talese filed his reporting away, assuming the story would remain untold. Now, after thirty-five years, he's ready to go public and Talese can finally tell his story. The Voyeur's Motelis an extrao

Book review: 'The Voyeur's Motel'

If you’ve ever wanted your inner voyeur to run free, vicariously at least, then “The Voyeur’s Motel” (Grove Press) is for you.

If you shudder at the thought of such licentiousness, avoid this book!

What E.L. James’ erotic novel “Fifty Shades of Grey” did in opening the door for mass circulation books regarding bondage, sadism and masochism, Gay Talese’s nonfiction book “The Voyeur’s Motel” is likely to do for voyeurism.

Not for the faint of heart, “Motel” delves deeply into the taboo world with no holds barred and no excuses. Moral boundaries are out the window (literally!).

“Motel” is the genuine life story of a noun who bought and operated a motel solely for the purpose of spying on his guests, keeping graphically detailed notes of intimate moments.

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Talese is no stranger to documenting the racier side of modern life with his previous groundbreaking “Thy Neighbor’s Wife” () exploring sexuality in America from after World War II to the s. In fact, writes Talese, it was this operate that led Ge