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the most erotic book

Motokid

Motokid

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What's the most erotic book you've ever read that your average Book Forum visiter would not consider pornographic?

I would assume that anything degrading, and/or violent would be off limits.

Not so much graphic, but certainly something that gets your heart beating faster.
 
mine....

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I have two girls aged 12 & 8. I've been going to school at night for many years, and I work full time.

Most of my "free" reading has been in the self help catagory like the Rich/Dad Poor Dad stuff, Guerrilla Marketing, The E-Myth, Starting Your Own Business type stuff...

I'd have to say the last erotic reading I did was before children when I had a subscription to Playboy.

As far as a book with erotica....I really don't remember any. That's why I asked. ;)
 
well for stuff that is not technically erotica i like anne rice. she also wrote erotica as anne rampling and another name which escapes me. i never read her erotica but i plan too as i like the witches of mayfair series and the vampire series. also diana gabldon(sp?) writes good sex. but for anything erotica, i couldn't tell you a title i just flip through and buy what tickles my fancy.
 
The most erotic books I've read are "Crash" by J.G. Ballard and "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis but they are very graphical and violent so they could probably be considered pornography.

All the sex is at least done in mutual consent in both books from what I can remember.

If you want something that's not so graphical then the kitchen porn genre might be the best place to look.
 
I did read the Anne Rice Vampire chronicles. Interview, Lestat, Queen of the Damned. Great stuff.

Kitchen Porn??? Now there's a phrase you don't hear very often
 
Anne Rice??

So many times the discussion on this forum seems bound by books from the best sellers lists—Stephen King, Harry Potter, Anne Rice, Dan Brown.

I’m not into erotica per se, as it seems confined to one dimension of the human condition. I prefer books with some sensuality or physicality in the context of a larger notion of the world, e.g., GM Marquez, Burgess, DH Lawrence, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf.

But I’ve read many books from the long tradition in French literature, a lot of which is gentle and socially atmospheric and has literary merit in terms of the psychological motivations and self-awareness of the characters—authors like Anais Nin, Collette, and even Sartre. I despise Story of O, though some might find its allegorical debasements interesting.

And then there’s Henry Miller and Pynchon. Whole nuther cupcake there.

Time to dig a little deeper than Anne Rice, folks.

I’m not meaning to be rude, but this IS a book forum. Maybe I’ve read too much. . .

I think English writers and American writers do struggle with sexuality in literature. Americans do a piss-poor job of writing about anything sexual with grace and feeling. I mean, American Psycho?? That book is notable, potentially, for marking the beginning of shock-trash books, a la James Frey and the Prozac Nation wench.
 
So it wasn't Sade that marked the beginning of "shock-trash books"?

"Troll: A Love Story" (Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi) by Johanna Sinisalo might be a better choice. It's not as graphical if I remember correctly and the author is Finnish, not American or English. But contrary to "Crash" the eroticism is not the focus of the plot.

Finnish is such a tender and romantic language.

Minä rakastan sinua!
 
Wolhay said:
So it wasn't Sade that marked the beginning of "shock-trash books"?
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Sade is directly in the French tradition that Story of O and perhaps Sartre are in, which is distinctly different from the American 20th century "and then I shot up in the bathroom and set my shoe on fire because I was bored and decided I needed to get laid, so I took a taxi down to the East Village and blah blah blah."
 
hmm... i don't know about erotica, but if you want to have a nice and funny book, about love with a happy end... try Susan Elizabeth Philips!!! i'm not sure if guys like this kind of book, but i certainly do!!
and anne rice?? guys, you're not serious are you?? that's the most erotic book you ever read?? that bull!!
i like anne rice, but not for erotica!!
bye
 
No no no, I never siad I read Anne Rice for the erotic content.

I read it for the vampire story. And I liked it. I'm not afraid to admit that.

jenngorham mentioned Rice had done some erotic stuff but had not read that particular book. You may want to re-read
jenngorham's post on Anne Rice. I think you mis-read.
 
Motokid said:
No no no, I never siad I read Anne Rice for the erotic content.

I read it for the vampire story. And I liked it. I'm not afraid to admit that.

jenngorham mentioned Rice had done some erotic stuff but had not read that particular book. You may want to re-read
jenngorham's post on Anne Rice. I think you mis-read.
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could be, i just scanned over it, and then my cookies called for me, so i had to hurry!!
sorry!! :)
 
Sade is directly in the French tradition that Story of O and perhaps Sartre are in, which is distinctly different from the American 20th century "and then I shot up in the bathroom and set my shoe on fire because I was bored and decided I needed to get laid, so I took a taxi down to the East Village and blah blah blah."
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Sartre isn't one of my favourite authors so perhaps I should stay away from Sade as well. "Nausea" pretty much fits your description of American 20th century in my opinion.

Anne Rice has written erotica under the pseudonym A N Roquelaure.

Tell us what you thought of it when you've read anything by Roquelaure, honeydevil.
 
Gabriel Garcia Marquez (doesn't it seem too formal to write out his whole name?) books have quite a bit of sex in them, some of it hot and some of it not so much. The same goes for John Irving books, though the sex in those rather turns me off, I think it's meant as more a reflection on society than anything else. And of course there're always trashy romance novels, aka softcore porn for women :).
 
I read Fermata by Baker, but it was sexual without being sensual. The problem with most American fiction, movies, whatever. I think you have a definite point there, Novella.
 
Motokid said:
No no no, I never siad I read Anne Rice for the erotic content.

I read it for the vampire story. And I liked it. I'm not afraid to admit that.

jenngorham mentioned Rice had done some erotic stuff but had not read that particular book. You may want to re-read
jenngorham's post on Anne Rice. I think you mis-read.
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thanks moto,
seriously i just meant that i liked the sex bits in the anne rice novels(particularly the mayfair witches series), and i do like her for some fun reading, and that i knew she also wrote erotica under a pseudonym.
AND in another thread, i mention that i am having a bit of dry spell with reading and many people including novella,( i believe you said something about the simpsons and a mafia story? ;) ) mention reading something a little less serious, a little fluffier, and so now i get slammed for my choice in fluff?! can't read serious lit all the time.

i think that reading can be alot like sex. sometimes you want it all, to be moved, spoken to, feel a deeper sense of purpose and connection, and sometimes you just want to get nailed. :p
 
jenn, I wasn't slamming anyone. As I said, I just get frustrated by the number of times the same 10 authors come up, when there's a whole world of other, better writing out there. Not personal.

Also, moto, why do you take every comment in a thread to be directed at you? When I'm addressing one post, I quote it to avoid confusion.
 
novella said:
jenn, I wasn't slamming anyone. As I said, I just get frustrated by the number of times the same 10 authors come up, when there's a whole world of other, better writing out there. Not personal.

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oh sorry. feeling a bit touchy today, i just snapped at my husband for offering me coffee :eek: i think i better take him up on the offer.
 
"moto, why do you take every comment in a thread to be directed at you"

I'm sorry. I guess I expect a discussion forum to allow free thought, open ideas, and comments from anybody on any subject providing it's within the context of the specific forum in question.

I simply expressed that I thought jenngorham was mis-read. If I'm reading correctly I believe jenn thanked me for my interpretation.
 
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