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Summary: HORRID!!!!
Review: ... These are some of the best verbal strip teases out there. From hotel rooms with lick your lip hicks in Pam Ward's "A Clean Comfortable Room" to Lucy Taylor's fashionable flip the switch on them hard in "Stiletto". If you don't like heat stay the heck out the kitchen because these writers serve it up hot.
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Summary: Erotica for Literature Buffs
Review: Here is Erotica for grown-ups, for people who think sex, besides being something to get hot for, is also something worth thinking about. In the vein of writers like Philip Roth, Henry Miller and Mary Gaitskill, this collection gives erotica its intellectual due. Sex is serious--as well as funny, hot and sad. Erotica is given the depth and complexity it deserves. Bravo Susie Bright! You are a genius!
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Summary: You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll get turned on!
Review: Like all good short story anthologies should, "The Best American Erotica 1999" delivers a wide variety of stories within the given genre to provide readers with enough food for thought to fill many banquet tables. Nearly all of the stories turned me on to some degree, but just as important, some made me laugh ("Is Your Husband Obsessed with On-Line Pornography," "Three Obscene Telephone Calls"), some made me want to cry ("Licking Our Wounds," "Doctor Fell"), some made me, well, you know ("Penetration'" "Picking up Daddy," "The Balm that Heals"). The one disappointment was "Tell Me What it Is." The writer of this story presented us with interesting, complex characters, but the ending seemed abrupt and made no sense. But in a book of over 20 short stories, it would be nearly impossible to like every story. That is the beauty of a short story anthology, though. If there's a story you don't like, just skip to the next one. But in this case, readers of this anthology probably won't be skipping many stories.
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Summary: A [bad one] in the series
Review: Rather dull and disappointing. No real literary stories and no real erotic stories, just a mish-mash of what must pass as "new".
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Summary: HORRID!!!!
Review: This book lacks everything erotica should be. The stories are poorly written, with no viable character development and confusing story lines. No man or woman should be subjected to the horror these people have published.There is one story about a woman who is a phone sex operator and talks with a mentally challenged man. It's rather short and has no flowing plot, and at the end, the man asks the phone sex operator if he should kill himself. Now, I know there are people out there who are into s and m, but come on! How in the world did this story make it into print???? Do NOT waste your money on this book. It's downright terrible and has left me with nightmares and a bad taste in my mouth.
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