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26 Nights: A Sexual Adventure

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If you are looking for the next erotic Shakespeare, this isn't it.

However, it is entertaining, witty, and just the thing to take your mind off life's little problems for a while, and, after all, isn't that what books are all about? Buy it and enjoy!

Contrary to the other reviewers, I found this to be one of the most delightful and well-written erotic books I have ever read. The narrator has created a number of surprising and clever erotic scenes based on the premise of a bet between him and his assistant over whether he can sleep with only women whose first names begin with each letter of the alphabet, in order, within six months. The narrator has a wide variety of encounters, and each one is not only sexy, but also a unique and humorous scene. The ending is itself completely surprising and yet satisfying. I only wish the author's name were known; I would definitely buy more of his (or her?) books.

But still entertaining to a degree. On the plus side, "26 Nights" flows with a wit and creativity that keeps the pages turning. The intrigue is in how the authors will get their protagonist--the rich, good-looking, charming, and apparently well-endowed Steven Walling--to find and bed twenty-six women whose first, legal names follow the alphabet sequentially from A to Z. And to do it without boring the reader to tears with redundancy. To their credit, they actually pull this off. There was obvious thought applied to plotting. The various twists evoke a grin or two along the way.

On the negative side, however, this is a far cry from classic erotica such as "Fanny Hill." Walling's bet with his assistant is essentially a gimmick, an excuse to write twenty-six sex scenes. Such a stilted premise leans more toward porn than erotica. Yet the actual sex isn't explicit enough for porn lovers. So the writing falls short of either target. While technically well written and edited, 26 Nights is a stylistic nightmare. An overabundance of adverbs, adjectives, and unrealistic big-word dialogue makes the prose sound like what a first-year English major thinks writing is supposed to sound like. Since that's likely their intended target, maybe this is the result of marketing genius.

For the average open-minded adult looking for a light change of pace in their reading, 26 Nights might entertain and certainly won't hurt. But I pity the fourteen-year-old boy who gets hold of this book and believes it represents sexual reality. All the women are beautiful, passionate, insatiable, and easy. There are no children, diseases, condoms, or consequences--and marriage doesn't matter. Walling has more trouble fending off horny women who want to copulate out of alphabetical order, than he does locating willing participants. Maybe I missed the boat, but in my experience it ain't that easy, kid.

The plot sure has plenty of possibilities. To bad the the writting is so bad that none of them are realized. Certainly not worth the time or money. To bad you can't rate a book as NO stars as that is what this one is worth. No time, no stars, no excitement.

This has got to be the worst book I have ever read. It is totally STUPID and geared towards people with brains the size of peanuts. I can not believe I wasted my hard earned cash on such rubbish!

The book talks about bedding twenty-six women from divas and debutantes, playgirls, evangelists and entrepreneurs, throughout America. WHO CARES!!... The book has no direction, no meaning, no purpose. Every adult knows how to bed a person, tell us something we DON'T know!. This book claims to be an erotic novel, it doesn't even come close!

Would I recommend this book? maybe to my worst enemy!

THIS IS A GREAT GREAT GREAT BOOK! FUNNY1 SEXY1 FABULOUS1 EVERYONE SHOULD READ IT1 THE AUTHOR IS A GENIUS1