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The Best American Erotica 2004

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Excellent reading, some funny stories, some intense, most very good, with a couple of stories, like the girl-who-only-wore-red-dresses one, that just soar with imagination and wild fantasy!

I was quite disappointed in this book.

You should know, first, that I read erotica for the sexual stimulation of it, not for the beautiful language or catching story which I can get in any other kind of literature. The stories here are much better-written than the stuff I read on literotica online, but I do not find most of them titillating.

I am an open-minded, sexually confident young women with varied tastes and a healthy, active, vanilla (and delicious) committed sexuality. I enjoy a wide variety of topics for erotic stories, but this book, though broad in scope, does not align with many of my tastes at all.

I agree that the story of the woman in the red dress was exciting and enthralling and titillating (even though I usually don't like the hard-out BDSM stuff), but most of the stories in the collection left me cold (like two men wasting time in a hotel room... not having sex), disturbed (hard-out anal date rape), or disgusted (a really good orgy story that ends with a dead horse!)

If you want to read a well-written short story about sexual tension and fantasy on a Japanese commuter train, or a sweet story about what it's like to sustain sexuality after you dry up and cool down post menopause, buy this book. If you want something that will help warm you up for sex, find something else.

What I love about The Best American Erotica 2004 is that the stories have a great balance of plot, characterization and erotica. They're wonderful and literary -- something to stimulate the mind as well as the loins. I like the dark humor of "Two Guys, a Girl, and a Porno Movie," the irony in "The Disabled Loo," the starkness of "The Cool Cat," and the fetish in "The Girdle Boy" (which is also featured in Best Fetish Erotica). I hadn't liked the previous installments as much as I liked this one. Susie Bright has chosen some memorable and interesting stories this time around. I recommend it to all erotica enthusiasts. This is a must-have anthology!

Ms. Bright seems to have made her fortune with this annual volume and though I haven't read it since 1998 or so, I did get this one as a gift and was profoundly disappointed. I've read much better erotica in other books that didn't claim to be the "best." I think, really, this series is pretty overrated.

I ordered this book expecting a variety in the theme of stories. I was so disappointed. Almost every story has some sort of male homoerotic angle to it (which isnt what i intended to read being a straight female), then the other stories were so far fetched that they just seemed silly and plain disgusting and insulting. Don't waste your money on this peice of junk.

Some peole love this collection because it has a taste of something for everybody. But that also means that you are only likely to find a few stories to your personal taste. I was bored through most of the stories. I love susie bright, but her name wont be enough for me to purchase on a whim anymore.

I loved this book, and especially some of the female authors. I think this is my favorite of all the years.

Fairly good read. Some of the stories were lacking in erotic department . But other than that good.

Once again Susie supposed tastemaker of erotica Bright has thrown together a collection of mundane and not particularly well-written smut that should have stayed on the top shelf where it belongs instead of being printed by a reputable publisher. Like her previous volumes, there is little in this cheesy collection to redeem it. Can anybody spell "hack"? If this is the best American erotica, I'd hate to see the worst. Hang it up, Susie!