From Porn to Poetry: Clean Sheets Celebrates the Erotic Mind

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Summary: Excellent book
Review: Great stories, thoughtful essays, I don't do poems.....ok, I did read and like some of them!-:) The "Carmen by the Lake" story made me cry. I love stories about coming of age.

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Summary: Sexy, literate, lovely
Review: I don't usually write reviews, but this is the loveliest of books, so lovely that I'm keeping it out on my coffee table for conversation starters. It looks so "dirty" but it's so literary and interesting. There's not a story or poem in here that isn't wonderful, and the humor is good too. I leave it out so that people can pick it up and turn to any page and be surprised, and always interested. Stories like "River of Butterflies", "Blue in Cuba", and "Grady's Bar & Grille" are just amazing and original. Excellent book.

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Summary: Beautiful writing
Review: I love the mixture of fiction and non-fiction and poetry in this book. All of it is sexy, interesting, fresh and new. Highly recommended, and a great gift for a love to get them talking about what they like.

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Summary: Beautiful writing
Review: Okay, all you fans of erotica leave me alone to offer an objective opinion - after all, I did buy the book, so I'm not a prude trying to spoil your orgy! The writing in this anthology is not particularly good or original. If you think it is, you need to read better erotica. For goodness' sake, one "story" was a lecture about the futility of teaching abstinence, another story described a woman's fishy fantasies about her cat eating canned tuna, another story featured a woman reciting capitals and states while being pleasured, and yet another provided a simply uninspired recipe for a human strawberry shortcake. None of the poetry is sophisticated. In short, it is all rather insipid, and I dare say that some of this material will appear in Readers' Digest in about ten years. And, my new copy of the book fell apart at the bindings on my first reading (maybe my hands were getting too excited? Nah!)

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Summary: Great stories
Review: These stories are great - "Tell Me A Story", "The Symbol For Intensity", "The Secrets of Humphrey Milquer" - better than most erotica I read. I like the mix of humor and information and sex in the book, and I quite liked the writing about "What's Abstinence Got To Do with It?" about teaching kids well. An excellent book, and great for reading on the train.