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the most erotic book

-------edit---------- Well, I don't think you should dismiss any author because (s)he's a bestseller. It's like refusing to listen to some really great music just because it's mainstream.

Novella said, "when there's a whole world of other, better writing out there. Not personal." It just seems like if you insult the book, you're insulting the person who enjoyed the book.

I've read Nin, I've read Miller, they're great. But one shouldn't overlook a potentially great novel just because the author is "mainstream".

Motokid, I highly HIGHLY recommend A.N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice). The Sleeping Beauty trilogy is amazing. It's so beautiful and "elegantly pornographic". The places and the people are beautiful. It's a psychologial thrill ride. The first novel of the series was published in 1983 (her 2nd book after Interview With A Vampire).

The series is actually my favourite. It's one of the most beautiful pieces I've ever read and when I read it for the first time 4 years ago, it was the first time a novel made me cry. I've read it several times since then and it continues to touch me.
----edit-------I wouldn't skip over something just because it's a bestseller.

I hope you check it out Motokid, the novels are definitely for the open minded. I actually gave my boyfriend's mother copies of the trilogy and she loved it as well.

Afterwards, I recommend "The Roquelaure Reader A Companion to Anne Rice's Erotica" by Katherine Ramsland. It's very insightful.
 
I read the Trilogy many years ago. Whew.... EROTIC!

I have some erotica but nothing that stands out although one is formulating in my head... it's called "Quiver" but I cannot remember the author (I am at work). Anyone have an idea?
 
Deryn Rees-Jones? "A murder mystery in verse, this book opens with the protagonist stumbling across the body of an acquaintance who has been horribly murdered and left in a cemetery. She recognizes the victim as the former lover of her husband and so begins a web of incident and intrigue. Combining the pace and excitement of good fiction with all the lyric artistry of verse, the plot unfolds in brief poetic episodes, offering erotic glimpses of the protagonist's volatile moods. Disturbing and contradictory facts emerge as she interacts with police, colleagues, friends, and her spouse, all of whom seem to possess pieces of the puzzle that, when solved, will lead her to the mystery of the murdered girl." - Publisher
 
That's the book! Lovely. The Trilogy was really good but I was a teenager when I read it so I had a different sort of reaction than I would now, as an adult. I want to read them again. I should. I've bookmarked a page where I can buy the three but haven't followed through. I will, though.

Gotta love erotica!
 
:) I'm so glad!!! I don't really have anyone I can talk to about it. I think discussing it with my guy's mother is a little uncomfortable. I'm sure it is for her as well. Hehe.
 
I don't mind talking about it but I don't know if doing it within the forums is such a good idea! Lest someone get offended! If you think it will be fine...
 
i'm not sure about the rules but you guys can definitly check them for what is appropriate and if a discussion gets too "dangerous" the mod's will just lock the thread or give you a heads up, but they won't jump all over you. discuss away. if people don't like it, they don't have to join in. you will find many of us are eager for a good chat.
cheers jenn.
 
also

The Sleeping Beauty trilogy is also incredibly hot in addition to it being beautiful. Anne Rice said she wanted to create something she couldn't find elsewhere. It's a book where every page is hot so you don't have to mark the pages with the sexiest scenes. :p
 
Um, no you don't. I haven't read it for years and I still conjour up certain images. Very, very sexy but also S & M.
 
Hmmm, that's strange. I read the first book in the Sleeping Beauty trilogy and found it laughably unerotic! Seems I'm the exception in this case.

And on the subject of deeply unerotic works (to be contrary) I would steer clear of the sexual scenes in Birdsong by Sebastian Faulk and also any of the so-called sexy scenes in Laurell K Hamilton's recent work - boy, can that woman de-sexualise a scene with her poor choice of words...
 
i also read only the first book, but im found it really good
but on this days, i dont feel like buying erotica, when there are so many stories on the net, and some authors are really good (although i must admit that there is also a lot of crap).
 
magemanda said:
I would steer clear of the sexual scenes in Birdsong by Sebastian Faulk . . .
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Ha. I would give that whole book a wide berth. What an over-inflated melodrama. It boggles that he has a reputation as a decent writer. I guess if you like walking through oatmeal, you'll enjoy it.
 
I don't read (I was going to say much but that's a lie so I'll say) any erotica on the 'net. I guess I usually access the 'net at work and wouldn't want my coworkers to catch me reading it!

I think Lisa Gardner had some crap sex scenens in that useless piece of writing I put down last week. Gawd. It's amazing how some people view 'erotic' as something that most would find almost abusive.
 
novella said:
Ha. I would give that whole book a wide berth. What an over-inflated melodrama. It boggles that he has a reputation as a decent writer. I guess if you like walking through oatmeal, you'll enjoy it.
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Hey! I am reading that book right now and it's very good :p I like it so much I have just gotten another by the same author :)
 
SillyWabbit said:
Hey! I am reading that book right now and it's very good :p I like it so much I have just gotten another by the same author :)
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I don't generally enjoy being told what every character is wearing in every scene, what color hair they have, how old they are, how the room is decorated, what the town looks like, what the mayor looks like, what he weighs, whether his wife is considered attractive by the postman . . . and dialogue that reads as though it was translated from by a machine that doesn't have a colloquial grasp of English.

I think Faulks doesn't believe in the use of metaphors or allusions or development of character through action and dialogue. He just keeps explaining everything to the reader.
 
Erotica

If you enjoyed Rice's Sleeping Beauty trilogy, you should check out Laura Antoniou's The Marketplace series. It takes place in the modern day and has some surpisingly three dimensional characters for this genre. I've read all 5 and am looking forward to number 6.
 
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