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His: 30 Erotic Tales Written Just for Him

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This collection of 30 stories is written directly to a male reader and is filled with the sort of fantasies that would delight any guy. From the very start of the book ("Every Friday Night"), featuring a tantalizing threesome outdoors, all the way to "While She Was Dancing" (about doing a roommate's boyfriend, the stories are super-sexy, super-hot... just plain super. Even though the stories ARE written to a male "you", most women would enjoy them, as well. Even better, buy it for a boyfriend/husband/lover and read them out loud to him. The stories are from a girl to a boy, so it would work perfectly. However, I think you'll have to stop often, if you know what I mean. ;)

I found the stories in this book universally hot -- most of them are short, and easy to finish in one sitting whether you're with a lover or by yourself. Very hot scenarios, including such things as a college girl who dresses up in her roommates lingerie and ends up getting frisky with her boyfriend, a couple who makes love at the symphony, and a girl who likes to ... using, believe it or not, her washing machine. Lots of other fun stories, all with a light, playful and sexy tone.

I know this book is aimed at men, but I liked it enough to buy my own copy. First, I read "Hers," which is filled with stories for the ladies. Both books are written to the "you" of the reader, which seems to have confused some of the other reviewers. They stories are amazingly sexy and cover many different fetishes and genres. My favorite stories were "Every Friday Night" -- an outdoor threesome between two girls and a guy, "Two Dirty To Clean" -- which is a cheating story, "Paddle Brush" -- a spanking story (obviously!) and "All Access" about back stage at a rock concert. It's very easy to get inside the stories and to put yourself in the character's shoes.

Shoddy fiction, stories written in first person, present tense, none the least bit erotic. Written just for him, primarily by her, from you know who's viewpoint. No variation in tone, each story reads like the one you just finished, assuming you forced yourself to read more than two paragraphs. Few writers successfully pull of writing a book of erotic stories, certainly not the ones who attempted His. A male reader's time would be better spent reading, or re-reading, the classics of the genre -- The Pearl, My Secret Life, A Man with a Maid, My Life and Loves (Frank Harris). And anything by Anais Nin (Delta of Venus, Little Birds). Opus Pistorum (aka Under the Roofs of Paris) by Henry Miller is about as hot, and off track, as male fiction gets. His -- 30 Erotic Stories -- is as short on imagination as heat. Look elsewhere if you're into erotica, or think you might be.

Length:: 0:51 Mins

No one gets in my way when I'm reading erotica... NO ONE! As par for an Alison Tyler edited work, there are too many lusty stories in 'His' to pick my Top 5. They are all very good and aberrantly sexual. While this is an extremely erotic collection of stories, the last story alone is worth the price of this book! Matter of fact I'm going to read it again once I finish this review... bye.

This is not only an outstanding collection of erotic stories, but also one that employs an unusual strategy--to wonderful effect. As other reviewers have noted, the stories in His (and, I believe, the companion book Hers) are all told from a hybrid first/second-person point of view. That is, each tale here is related by a female "I" narrator, while also involving the male "you" character. This is not an easy technique to use; but Tyler and Roche handle it masterfully. The reader's identification with the "you" is offered, not forced--in fact, I chose to read some stories while vividly imagining myself in the shoes of the "you," and others more as a fly on the wall. The point of view is applied so subtly, organically, and seamlessly that I often found, in the course of reading, that I was barely aware of it--and yet it was doing its job all the time, adding a special layer of intimacy to each story.

These stories also show marvelous variety--in subject matter, characters, and tone. And it's not as simple as two writers writing in two styles. Both authors are as versatile as they are gifted, and the result is a range of voices that often defy the dedicated fan's ability to tell who wrote what. And this just makes one realize that it doesn't matter who wrote what: what matters is how beautifully all the stories work together.

Some of my favorites were "Machine Wash Hot" (full of lovingly described, visceral details of an imaginative fetish); the luscious three-way experience of "All Access"; the frisky, cuddly "Playing Possum"; and the exhibitionistically ecstatic "Beethoven's Exiles." And the collection concludes with an extended confession called "While She Was Dancing," in which one of the most vivid and compelling voices I've ever encountered leads the reader through an outrageous page-turner of an erotic adventure, moment by riveting moment.

bought this as a gift and he wasn't very impressed with the stories.

Guys typically don't like to read erotic books. I do like the Anne Rice Sleeping beauty book but that's a bit different. The stories are pretty much the same for each one. They mainly talk about having sex with strangers in a way that would never happen. Sure it's fantasy but make it somewhat believable. You want to impress your man? Show up to his place wearing a trenchcoat and nothing else. Ravage him and he will remember that more then some story in a book. Just make sure he doesn't have company over or something or that would be a moment you both will not forget.

I couldn't get into this book at all... I read the first two stories and didn't even get excited like I should have. I couldn't follow it!

This is NOT a book for children. If you're the type of person who buys a book subtitled "30 Erotic Stories" for your children, please, seek professional help. This is a book of erotic stories intended for adults! And insofar as it's that....rock on wi' it.