Erotica - Books Read and Recommend

24   7.5  

38   8.7  

25   8.8  

3   8  

7   8.8  

4   7  

6   7  

28   8.1  

0   9  

8   7.3  

2   6  

1   0  

37   9.4  

11   6.7  

7   8  

1   9  

6   10  

Ah... yes it is true I never finished reading Ulysses.

28   7.1  

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123   7.5  

I love this book on so many layers. A book that I plan on rereading very soon.

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4   8  

Doesn't really mater your sexual orientation, it doesn't get more 'classic literature' then Sappho.

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29   8.6  

I had read Henry Miller before I read anything by Anais Nin. So, in that regard it was a great break and nice to have a very different voice. However, her stories tend to have roughly the same conclusion. Pleasure then a tragic then tragedy... which sort of got old after a few hundred pages. Still, there are some images that stick in my mind and stories I liked.

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57   8.4  

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25   9.1  

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1   0  

There are a number of translated editions of Giacomo Casanova's Memoirs. There is even a nifty ilistrated Kindle version. Still, given the chance I think I will try to find at least one copy of from this volume as they are translated by Arthur Machen (the man who it said inspired H.P. Lovecraft). I have loved Machen's other works so could see how he might do well in translating this rather lengthily collection of writings.

267   8.3  

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17   7.3  

Yes, these books do fall on the side of "dark erotic" and wouldn't recommend for those tame on the subject. I found the first book to be enjoyable and quite imaginative.

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17   8.7  

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11   9.2  

Yep, got bored with the story by the third novel and never bother to read the conclusion.

26   9.1  

There is something truly warped about Georges Bataille. A book I will never forget reading... it a good way.

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5   8  

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13   8.1  

Sadism is the term coined after the Marquis De Sade. Well, this is the other guy... Masochism. I enjoyed the writing style more then that of De Sade's works.

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10   7.5  

I actually never made it that far into "Justine" it was officially too much for me. I did however read a few of his other writings so the book wasn't a complete waste.

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2   10  

This was the first 'dark erotic' book that I ever read. There is something about the imagery of the garden that has always stuck with me over the years.

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