What Book Has Been Turning You On Lately?

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And if you were about to say The Kama Sutra, been there and read that;> With too much damn time on my hands lately, I just finished Seraglio by Janet Wallach [an interesting mix of 17th century biography and fiction about a Creole girl kidnapped by pirates on her way home to Martinique, and how she adjusts to the Arabic world, afterward]. Tonight, I'm cracking open Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley by Alison Weir.

So? What are you lot reading...even if it's the back of the cereal box?

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

the collected penthouse forum

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)

the erotic adventures of hercules

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

the "indie trucker hat" thread

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

NOT

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Toro magazine. I'd like it even more if it was actually about lawn mowers like I thought. I just started to re-read Victoria Glendinning's biography of Rebecca West as well, which is just fascinating to me. Sorry for the straight-ahead answer.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

play ball, amelia bedelia

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry for the straight-ahead answer.

Nowt to be sorry for. Straight or twisted, it's all good.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:56 (twenty-two years ago)

play ball, amelia bedelia

Is that a children's book, like Hey God, it's me, Margaret? Sounds familiar.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Monday, 16 June 2003 22:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I just finished The Stand by Stephen King. It'd been gathering dust for a long time, so what the hell. I took an appallingly long time to get through it. It didn't turn me on. :) But for a book of that length, it held together extremely well and I cared about the characters quite a lot. Worth the effort if you can stand an abudance of graphic descriptions of death and decay scattered around...

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 00:55 (twenty-two years ago)

oh... book. Nevermind.

― Kim (Kim), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 00:56 (twenty-two years ago)

i haven't been turned on by a book for a while, i think that means i'm not reading enough pat califia.

― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 02:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Currently on Don Quixote, which is very funny. Quick recommendation: Carter Beats The Devil by Glenn David Gould is quite, quite wonderful, as is Andrey Kurkov's Death and The Penguin.

― Jamie Conway (Jamie Conway), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 02:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Di - I am glad to hear that there's another Pat Califia fan on here - her/his stuff can make me positively melt! (Well, at least the lesbian stuff - I don't know if he's now writing TS erotica or not, especially now that's he's a Dad and all. Can't imagine him not writing porn, though, come to think of it, regardless of gender role.)

I just finished The Grand Complication by (I think) Allen Kurzwell - excellent vocabulary (my new favorite word is "whenceabouts" - how's that for cool? and an excellent psychological term/concept "neurosis of destiny" - I need to use that more, too). I think I'll take Jamie's advice and read Carter Beats the Devil, next - I need something wonderful to clear my mind *grin*

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I know Glen Gold, the author of Carter Beats the Devil, from our mutual time here at UCI -- very friendly and intelligent guy, so it's good to see praise for him. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 04:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm getting into The Non-Existent Knight by Italo Calvino.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)

anti clerical and pornographic texts from 18the century holland, england, france and italy.

underground mostly, and just now retranslated.

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 05:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm reading The Burglar In The Rye by Lawrence Block (in which an obvious Salinger-analogue guests). Best thing I read recently was a comic, Phoenix by Osamu Tezuka, one of the best comics I've ever read, the first volume of 12 in a series.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 17 June 2003 11:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, more books I haven't read! Though I see the arch toward porno round here....but then, that could just be how my mind is running;>

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 18 June 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Porn? With this crowd? Oh, Nichole, surely you speak in jest!

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Thursday, 19 June 2003 05:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I read more than a hundred pages about kant's life today. I'm not sure what's wrong with me. the only reason I'm stopping now is that I'm getting too tired to follow the part about responses to his professorial dissertation!

― Josh (Josh), Thursday, 19 June 2003 06:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I started reading Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart today, and I'm enjoying it greatly.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 19 June 2003 21:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Catherine Millet's The Sexual Life of Catherine M is some serious high brow smut - a huge turn on.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 19 June 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Duncan McClean's "The Bunker Man". I'm finally reading again.

― Cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 19 June 2003 22:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Ugh - someone just sent me the whole "One for the Money" cheap mass paperback mystery series. Even worse *cringing at the confession*, I actually chuckled a few times in the first book.

Have I become a book snob?

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 20 June 2003 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)

William Burroughs' 'The Ticket that Exploded' is great, but it isn't turning me on; too many mentions of rectal mucus. So far.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 20 June 2003 00:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually I guess it turned me on a BIT

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 20 June 2003 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)

to DRUGS

― duane, Friday, 20 June 2003 09:24 (twenty-two years ago)

'Russian Political Hospitals' (written 1975)

― dave q, Friday, 20 June 2003 09:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I want to try drugs now, does anyone have some?

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Friday, 20 June 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm looking at my bookshelf to see if anything has turned me on since teenage days of reading John Updike and Anais Nin (hott author action!). Hmm, Fast Food Nation, not a turn on really but must return to Vicky.

Nope, there's nothing up there. Recently the nearest I've got to saucy literature is Marianne Dashwood's overly familiar letters to Mr Willoughby in Sense and Sensibility.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 20 June 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

And there was i thinking that this thread would have loads of black lace titles in it....

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 20 June 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

...another post I had to read twice.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 20 June 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Deviant Desires - the title pretty much says it all. And then some. Really makes me feel much less kinky - I am almost vanilla compared to some of these folks. But there are some interesting ideas *grin*

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 20 June 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

I finished the Bunker Man today. The cover says its "Scotland's answer to Roddy Doyle" (??) when really he's more like a Scottish Tibor Fischer. The last 30 pages were horrible, just horrible (manufactured rape, cleaver attack, etc). I've not felt that way (pure rage, disgusted) in a long time.

(Trans.: "I've not read in a long time"?)

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 20 June 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Sushi For Beginners is ok, but I plan to really be turned on by the Sexual life of Catherine M, whenever I get to it.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Friday, 20 June 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

"Vivir Para Contarlo" ----> Gabriel Garcia Marquez' autobiography

"Temples Of Sound" ----> Fun read about the great US recording studios. No, really.

"Prince:DanceMusicSexRomance" ------> 2nd time read, and just as good as the first time.

These are all very sexy books in their way.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Friday, 20 June 2003 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

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