Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women [Paperback]

Rachel Kramer Bussel (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2008

What do women really want? To be sensually seduced or pressed up against the wall for a quickie? To be tantalized by a peep show or the chance to join the mile high club?

Acclaimed erotica writer and editor Rachel Kramer Bussel knows: They want it all. They want to be worshiped, ordered around, sent blindly into ecstasy, and made hot in front of a mirror. They want strangers bearing ice cubes on a hot day and to be the party favor passed around among guests. They want sex at the office and in the great outdoors and on trains and airplanes. They want sex with the whole United States of America (or, at least, part of it). They want to be wooed, seduced, flirted with, taken. They want to handpick their lovers and make them do their bidding. They want men, women, and sometimes both at the same time.

In Dirty Girls, the country's best erotic writers explore their sexual psyches. With contributions from Carol Queen, Alison Tyler, Sofia Quintero, Shanna Germain, Lillian Ann Slugocki, Tsaurah Litzky, and many others, this collection will set your heart racing as you savor these intimate, shocking, and passionate female fantasies.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Seal Press (April 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1580052517
• ISBN-13: 978-1580052511
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #218,638 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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34 of 43 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poorly edited romance novel, December 20, 2008

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Cheeke Maroo (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

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This is a mediocre book, which, for being titled "Dirty Girls," seems to be borderline romance-novel, and as one reviewer stated, the writers seemed to be trying too hard to get you off, rather than just enjoying the flow.

The thing that kills this book isn't that there are only 3-4 well-written stories, it's that this book is poorly edited. There are numerous grammatical errors that abrasively snap the reader out of the story. Here are some excerpts:

"Or maybe he's a cowboy, and he's going to whisk me away to his ranch in the mountains and [f..k] me in a field of wildflowers til every muscle is my body aches."

That's right: "is my body aches." But when the hell did "dirty" and getting "whisked away" ever meet each other? Oh, in this book. I thought we were trying to get away from being "WHISKED AWAY." Ugh.

Here's another for you:

"When all her clothes lay in a heap at her feet except her high heels, he pulled off his boots, stripped out of his jeans, walked up to her, and lovingly put her brassier back on. He said, 'Gracie Angelique DuBois, what am I doing[sic] to do with you?"

- Lillian Ann Slugocki "Truck Stop Cinderella"

"What am I doing to do with you?" Are you kidding me?

I became increasingly disappointed as I got into the book; "Truck Stop Cinderella" was the final irritant (merely 7 stories in), and I skimmed through the rest. I started story after story, but repeatedly encountered long-winded, romance-y, over-development.

Different strokes for different folks, but this book didn't stimulate my imagination; as a whole it was an intellectual let-down.

With that said, there were 3 excellent writers. High marks to Marie Lyn Bernard, Isabella Gray, and Andrea Dale. I will look for more from these particular authors. However, this book is very much like buying a CD and only liking 3 songs on the entire album.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good collection of erotica, December 2, 2010

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Alice in Wonderland - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dirty Girls: Erotica for Women (Paperback)

Dirty Girls is a collection of erotic short stories written by women and for women. The stories are all well written, and quite enjoyable. As for the dirtiness, well, admittedly the book does take a bit of a hit there. The stories are steamy, but few of them really get red hot. Nonetheless, I thought that it was a good collection of erotica, and enjoyed reading it.

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11 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars a bit too "sweet", January 17, 2009

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Master's Kittie "Bliss" (CT) - See all my reviews

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a combination of "dirty" and "sweet" - sounded perfect to me - but this book definitely veers more towards the "sweet" - one or two truly hot stories, most are very PG/PG13 max - not that they are not well-written, but I am not into "romance" stories and these are leaning heavily into that genre - probably the dirtiest thing about the book is its design - printed fingerprints throughout, a bit too clever an idea: at first it does not seem intentional, and then it just becomes annoying - hoping the next selection will be better