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Summary: Beariffic Hairy Putter: 1-handed reading by good writers
Review: (...)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. (...)
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Summary: Dissapointing
Review: A coupla copies of First Hand magazine would have been about as satisfying... Considering the 'hype' of this book, I found a few of the stories to be bland at best (one of Furr (aka George Madisons)'s stories has been badly re-edited, causing it to lose its focus...) I found the addition of cheesy photos to be tacky (and don't miss the many paged ads in the back for the publishers videos (featuring all of the pics stars..) to be well not all that welcome. I had real high hopes for this, but I was um...'satisfied' more less than more... Yeah- there *are* some hot, woofy, tales here...but its not worth slogging thru some of the worse ones (considering the list ot authors- I only wondered what *didn't* they use? the mind ... boggles... All in all, this reeked of the 'lets jump on the bear bandwagon' and sell stuff mentality.... I want more...and better!!
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Summary: Beariffic Hairy Putter: 1-handed reading by good writers
Review: 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.
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Summary: This Polar Bear goes "woof" with HUGE recommendation
Review: 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!
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Summary: Goldilocks Approves! Bear Stories and Bear Photos
Review: 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...
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Summary: STINK-O-RAMA
Review: 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...)
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Summary: Wins ForeWord Silver Award for Best Erotica 2002
Review: I"m a buyer (and reviewer) for a book outlet, so I pay attention to what sells and what wins awards--especially in Manhattan. Authors in this book won 2nd Place Best Erotic Fiction in U. S. from the prestigious ForeWord Awards at the national Book Expo America, in New York, May 3, 2002. The ForeWord Awards are straight mainstream awards that honor lesbigay writing annually. This acknowledgment of gay writing in the bear genre brings honor to us bears everywhere. Many of the authors in this book are also much published in other books and magazines, Simon Sheppard, Ron Suresha, Bob Condron, Jack Fritscher, and Shaun Levin. I enjoyed the book, and was happy to see all the writers win collectively. I also think the cover and the use of photos inside, to make the book as appealing visually as a magazine, was a good idea that probably helped it win.
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Summary: Cool! Storybook with photos is also Photobook with stories
Review: 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.
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Summary: It's about time for stories and pix from bear magazines
Review: 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.
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Summary: All bear writing is good, but this is GRRREAT!!!!!
Review: Lots of new bear books around to fill the log-plank book shelf in my cabin--don't I wish I had one, but I can dream. This Bear Cult has many very good writers who know how to write bear porn. The stories are big and slurpy and sexy and each very different from the other. Hey, they get me off, and nights when I don't wanna read, I use the many pages of bear pictures in between the stories. Actually, this book is put together like a magazine--kind of like if "Bear Magazine" or "American Grizzly" put out a book of their best dirty writers and photographers. Woofy-doo!
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