Taking you on a journey through the garden of sensual delights that is erotic literature, this collection aims to educate, excite, surprise and instruct you through the writings of Kathy Acker, Anne Rice, Marco Vasssi, Vicki Hendricks, Michael Hemmingson , Thomas Roche and Stewart Home.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Decidedly UN-erotic!,
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This review is from: The Mammoth Book of Erotica (Paperback)
While a few of the stories in this compliation have some sensual quality, the vast majority are quite disturbing or rather boring. It is disconcerting to be paging through the book while feeling frisky, only to stumble across a story about about woman who dreams of eating feces! I don't care if it was meant to be "tongue-in-cheek", it just plain ruins the mood! And I would estimate that roughly 50% of the book deals with S&M or bondage of some sort.....which gets to be a bit tiring when its not your cup of tea. How about reserving this kind of stuff for the "Mammoth Book of BDSM" or the "Mammoth Book of Poo Eating"???The average Penthouse Forum column is more titillating than this disappointing compendium of drivel.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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A must have erotic anthology! for vassi!,
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I was shocked to read the other lukewarm reviews of this book. I bought this book about 10 years ago and found the stories compelling, entrancing (not to mention erotic). The book covers the darker side of eroticism--death, SM, but there's a lot of softer stuff. The real reason to buy the book is Marco Vassi's 80 page novella "Carcass of Dreams" (which I would argue is one of the best series of erotic stories ever written). The stories are more Bataille or Jean de Berg than Kundera, a lot of dark brooding nonsense. Another gem is Robert Silverberg's "Two at Once" one of the most delightful stories I'd read. Surprisingly, the Anne Rice story is one of the weakest of the bunch. Maxim Jakubowski also edited the excellent "Mammoth Book of International Erotica" (although I didn't find it as steamy as this original volume). For those who still prefer reading an intellectually-engaging dirty book once in a while and don't mind morbidity and S/M, this book will be great.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
literary sexuality,
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This is one of the finest collections of literary sexuality I have had the pleasure to read. Far from mere titillation, the stories are intriguing, thought-provoking and fascinating. Oh, and from time to time, the stories are really hot. Enjoy.
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THE WAY WE fucked each other had the precision and focus of cruelty. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bad Girl, New York, Herr Craftsman, Les Girls, Booth Nine, Hollow Hills, Madame Visage, Mistress Lockley, Danish Vibrator, Isle of the Dead, Los Angeles, Angie Lee, Bel Air Hotel, Lucrezia Borgia, Mary Voolnd, Mother Superior, San Francisco, Alec Hammond, Beverly Hills, Doctor Dance, Doctor Welles, Edith Piaf, Essex Road, Mama Tortoli New!
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THE WAY WE fucked each other had the precision and focus of cruelty. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bad Girl, New York, Herr Craftsman, Les Girls, Booth Nine, Hollow Hills, Madame Visage, Mistress Lockley, Danish Vibrator, Isle of the Dead, Los Angeles, Angie Lee, Bel Air Hotel, Lucrezia Borgia, Mary Voolnd, Mother Superior, San Francisco, Alec Hammond, Beverly Hills, Doctor Dance, Doctor Welles, Edith Piaf, Essex Road, Mama Tortoli New!
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- Mammoth Book of Pulp Fiction (The mammoth book series) by Maxim Jakubowski in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Pulp Fiction by Maxim Jakubowski in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- New Crimes by Maxim Jakubowski in Front Matter
- Chronicles of Crime by Jakubowski Maxim (EDT) in Front Matter
- Erotic Novels by Maxim Jakubowski in Front Matter
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- Pleasure Bound by Carroll & Graf in Back Matter
- Confessions: Admissions of Sexual Guilt by Sage Vivant in Back Matter
- The Ultimate Guide to Cunnilingus: How to Go Down on a Woman and Give Her Exquisite Pleasure (Ultimate Guides Series) by Violet Blue on page 152
- The Mammoth Book of International Erotica (Mammoth Books) by Maxim Jakubowski in Front Matter
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