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Summary: Great
Review: I guess it all depends on what you are looking for. No, this is not.... letters, not for the faint of heart, not if you're looking for run of the mill erotica, not one bang after another. The stories were very well written and well developed. Very interesting. Not always a turn on, but extremely well done.
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Summary: A must have erotic anthology! for vassi!
Review: I was shocked to read the other lukewarm reviews of this book. I bought this book about 10 years ago and found the stories compelling, entrancing (not to mention erotic). The book covers the darker side of eroticism--death, SM, but there's a lot of softer stuff. The real reason to buy the book is Marco Vassi's 80 page novella "Carcass of Dreams" (which I would argue is one of the best series of erotic stories ever written). The stories are more Bataille or Jean de Berg than Kundera, a lot of dark brooding nonsense. Another gem is Robert Silverberg's "Two at Once" one of the most delightful stories I'd read. Surprisingly, the Anne Rice story is one of the weakest of the bunch. Maxim Jakubowski also edited the excellent "Mammoth Book of International Erotica" (although I didn't find it as steamy as this original volume). For those who still prefer reading an intellectually-engaging dirty book once in a while and don't mind morbidity and S/M, this book will be great.
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Summary: literary sexuality
Review: This is one of the finest collections of literary sexuality I have had the pleasure to read. Far from mere titillation, the stories are intriguing, thought-provoking and fascinating. Oh, and from time to time, the stories are really hot. Enjoy.
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Summary: literary sexuality
Review: This is one of the finest collections of literary sexuality I have had the pleasure to read. Far from mere titillation, the stories are intriguing, thought-provoking and fascinating. Oh, and from time to time, the stories are really hot. Enjoy.
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Summary: Great
Review: What a cheat. "Erotica" is supposed to refer to writing that is sexually stimulating. With about two exceptions, the stories in this book are enough to put you off sex for life. Some of them are quite good in their own right, to be sure; they just aren't erotic. At least not to any even borderline normal person. Jakubowski has assembled here a compendium of the most morbid, depressing, thoroughly unpleasant stories I've ever seen. I don't even want to meet anyone who gets turned on by this sort of thing. (And I am a man of broad and even kinky tastes, with no problem at all with reading about non-Euclidean sex; anyone who is familiar with my own recent work can attest to that.) And this isn't just my opinion. As it happens, I know a couple of the authors included in this book; one in particular is a friend of mine - and he himself admitted that he was amazed that anyone would consider his story in any way erotic. In addition, the book itself is of terrible quality: flimsy, grayish paper, too-tiny type. Don't waste your money on this one.
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