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Noirotica 3: Stolen Kisses

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This is one of the best anthologies of any kind of fiction that I've ever read. It's an incredible blending of my favorite kind of writing, crime fiction, with erotic fiction. Many of the stories are perverse and shocking, but there's also a lot of dark romance mixed in with the crime thriller plots. And they're all excellent stories -- I liked every story in this book except maybe one or two. Anyone who likes mysteries and erotica should buy this book!

Thomas Roche has gathered some of today's best erotic writers in this collection of fiercely written, highly polished stories for the lover of the noir genre. Where Chandler, Hammett, Esteleman, McBain, and other crime writers leave off, these authors begin. Not afraid to push boundaries -- or even to break them -- the stories cross the police barrier of sweet arousal into the realm of dark, hot, sex.

If you enjoy the detective ("noir") genre, and want some erotica that fits that category, AND if you find the kind of VERY harsh, dark sexuality that seems to fit that genre erotic, then you will probably enjoy this book tremendously. The writing is mostly very good, and the stories seem to be a good batch of examples of the genre.

I've never really been a fan of "noir" fiction; I own a copy of the video of "The Maltese Falcon", and consider it money well-spent, but it isn't a genre that I go out of my way looking for. And much of the sado-masochistic, pain-as-pleasure, dark-side-of-the-id sex that is the mainstay of most of these stories makes me wince and wilt, rather than get aroused. So most of these stories didn't do much for me; "Private Dick", by Sukie de la Croix, a spoof of the genre in which the title character was, and indeed almost every male character in the story were, stereotypical flaming queers, was hysterically funny. "A Walk In The Rain On The Wild Side", by O'Neil De Noux, was easily the most erotic story in the book, at least to my taste. Unfortunately, it was also the most sloppily written. "The Gyrl With No Name" (Kate Bornstein), "Phantom Lover" (Maxim Jakubowski), and "Inside The Works" (Tom Piccirilli) were painfully edgy, but fascinating for all of that. Most of the others just didn't make much of an impression on me, although "Faithful" by Michael Thomas Ford had an interesting plot-twist that I just didn't see coming, and so was memorable for that reason if no other.

If, like me, you're tempted to pick this book up simply out of curiosity, and not because your tastes actually run to this sort of thing, I would advise against it. But if you actually are drawn to this book because this sort of thing is of interest to you, it won't be easy to find a better-executed example of what this book provides.

my friend owns this book and brought it to school and i read two chapters from it, it was funny, most of them werent' really crimes just odd. but if you were going to use this for being turned on, then check out porn, this is just a book about stupid people getting off. pretty funny, which i why i gave it many stars.