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Tales from the Bear Cult: Best Bear Stories from the Best Magazines, Bearotica for Your Inner Goldilocks, with 37 Photographs

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Grrr-owwwlll! Count this as a WOOF book of 17 stories with photographs, or as a book of 37 photographs with stories. Either way, I enjoyed this palm-driving book. It's about loggers, hitchhikers, bikers, maintenance men, truckers, and, mmm, yeah, Roman warriors. The stories are hot, even well-written, certainly attractively presented. As a bear who is also a bear-chaser, I found the photos--straight out of "Bear" magazine--as much as the stories to be great entertainment on nights when I was home alone with bear-grease on my face and a box of chocolates. The writers are bear-mag favorites: Clint Seiter, Jay Neal, Charlie Eldredge, Simon Sheppard, Ron Suresha, and Jack Fritscher who also shot all the bear photos. This book is a keeper for any serious Bear or Bear Chaser as well as any man big enough to call himself "Goldilocks." Do you have a problem with that? ...I didn't think so. Stick this book...on your Bear Shelf, or put it on your coffee-table where your "vistors" will get the "idea" of why you invited them over...

I'm a Bear Buster! I like words. I like pictures. "Bear Cult" gave me both. The stories are very into being "bear" in terms of truckers, loggers, bikers, etc. The photos are worth the price of admission. The stories are sexy in detail, even juicy, with excellent writing by Bob Vickery who tells tales of frontier bears, and Furr who writes about adventures in the woods. Charlie Eldredge writes about bear-sex in ancient Rome in a way that reminds me of the gladiator novels of Aaron Travis. There's even a nasty story by Shaun Levin about what goes on in the basement boiler room of an apartment building. And a sci-fi story of a futuristic musclebear athlete in bondage named "Earthbear." You can see why several bear magazine editors picked these stories for their erotic bear content. The color cover is worth framing. Actually, the back cover, also in full color, shows half a dozen sexy bears from Palm Drive Video as well as from the covers of "Bear" magazine. Also in the bear photos shot by Jack Fritscher, there's nasty cigars, especially Redneck Cowboy and Butch: Tattooed Aryan Biker. Woof, woof, woof. Recommended reading for LazyBear Weekend.

(...)P>Video is good but those video bears are the bears I see.

On the other paw, reading like "Tales of Bear Cult" conjures up the bears of my imagination. So reading hardens my more personal bearish fantasies. (...)

That's something I think about, although I do very much enjoy the photographs in both Bear Cult books by editor Hemry (37 photos) and photographer Nelson (55 photos). They help my hairy puttering hand, but don't intrude on my personal imagination.

All these Bear Cult authors with their hot tails deserve erotic praise for their work in Bear magazines and books. (...)

This bear's in love with the pictures from Bear Magazine and the stories that get under my coat. Grwl. Woof. Wear is Bear Cult #2: The Sequel?

I read many of these stories in the magazines they were originally published in, and it is quite clear they've been EXTENSIVELY edited, some would say rewritten, for this volume -- and NOT for the better.

I rated it one star because one can't rate something ZERO stars. If you think you liked the stories in this ... thing, track down the original versions -- I'm sure you'll like them more! (I find it interesting that the editors of this volume didn't include info on exactly what magazine and issue each story came from -- probably didn't WANT people going back and making comparisons...)

Even in these days of video and DVD, I think there's nothing better under my bed than a good filthy book because the words bring up my favorite images in my head.

Video is good but those video bears are the bears I see.

On the other paw, reading like "Tales of Bear Cult" conjures up the bears of my imagination. So reading hardens my more personal bearish fantasies.

It's like the argument about music videos or the movie Harry Potter. If you hear a song without MTV visuals, or read the text of Harry Potter, the images in your head are yours, but if you watch a music video or the movie Harry Potter then you always see the images someone else gave you on the screen.

That's something I think about, although I do very much enjoy the photographs in both Bear Cult books by editor Hemry (37 photos) and photographer Nelson (55 photos). They help my hairy puttering hand, but don't intrude on my personal imagination.

All these Bear Cult authors with their hot tails deserve erotic praise for their work in Bear magazines and books: Bob Condron, Jack Fritscher, Ron Suresha, Simon Shepherd, John Coriolan, Jay Neal, to name a few.

It's about time that bears get our own book of fiction in this first book--The bear magazine editors who picked these stories and these photographs are the heroes here promoting bear society--The pix the authors took of themselves are good as it's nice to see who actually wrote the bear stories, Simon Sheppard, Jay Neal, Bob Vickery, Shaun Levin, Charles Eldridge--The book-video tie-in (plus the bear magazine photos) chronicles our bearishness as a separate category of male bonding--Plus I got a free video of the bears of the Folsom Street Fair. Waiting for Bear Cult 2, and more bear voices.

Four paws up! and woof, woof, woof. Now that all the bear magazines are gone, these collections of stories keep the culture of bear men going. This book is totally not like a book because it's more like a magazine. It has hot stories and hot pictures. The best of both whirls! I'm taking this book with me to Bear Rendevouz in San Francisco where some cub and I can "read" to each other in bed, because it always rains. HUGE-ly Recommended!

Some of the woofy encounters showcased in this collection of ursine tales are so atmospherically-charged and fluid-threatening --- you really should refrain from reading them in bed with a tall glass of guava-juice in hand. Because chances are: the earthshaking heroic exploits of these hairier-than-life, harder-than-rhinoes, easier-than-ABC protagonists will effect bodily tremors in you; sending guava-juice tumbling down your immaculate bear-print pyjamas. Not good.

Wow, I have not encountered a more expertly assembled collection of erotic bear tales elsewhere. At the end of it all, you the reader will surely want to hug and squeeze the editors and authors for their stellar efforts. There is not a single stiff dud here at all. From the opening tale to the last, it seems they have sequenced these engaging stories carefully to achieve a culmulative pseudo-orgasmic effect on the reader as he progresses through the series. There is an almost tangible sense of onward thrust and boiling urgency which really compels the reader to keep his nose firmly between the stitched reams of this glorious book; even forgetting all about air as he heads for the end.

Also, singularly running from the top through to the bottom tale is a magnificently thick, rich vein of naughty humor. The authors all seem to share a similar evil sense of humor, and they have made it very evident in their own stories. That probably accounts for why I'd reckoned this is the best assemblage of bear erotica. This shared sense of humor really acts as a unifying force. Those scenes of mud-baths, sofa-cleanings, Olympian wrestling, Santa's presents etc., they truly sparkle with a deliciously evil humor.

Lastly, the accompanying G-rated pics skilfully inserted at various stoppage points in the book add to the overall sensual atmosphere, and with the exception of one or two woeful Hairy Mary choices, almost all of the subjects fit the mould of the bear-prototype. This is evidence that the editors have actually done research in their field of specialization.

This really is a well put together tome of erotic thrillers - well suited to be taken in neat and straight, or as a companion tabletop diversion whilst you are going through your stock portfolios. Bravo!

Bring on the sequel please!

Very good stories by writers who must be authentic bears to make this book seem so realistic, and funny. If this whole group of bear/writers went out to the woods for a bear weekend, this is what I imagine the campfire tales would sound like. 4 PAWS UP!