What's a good erotic book?

Just finished reading Slow Hand for the third time. Any suggestions on a good steamy erotic book?

 

'The Young Soldier' can be all these things if you change the punctuation. Ladies with hats and tamborines will be coming to a bar near you shortly to sell them.
(I lived on an island and we had to make our own amusements)

 

I've read a couple recently - "House of Holes" by Nicholson Baker and "Pornucopia" by Piers Anthony - yes, the guy who wrote the Xanth books wrote porn as well. I can't recommend either book. They are both combinations of fantasy and sex; however, they also seem to be in a competition to see just how much sex and nudity they can contain without a single bit of eroticism. I can get far more kicks out of literotica.com than out of these books.

 

Recently picked up some classics and added Lolita to my repetoire. It is 50 years old! One of the best books I’ve ever read, in terms of the descriptive thought processes of Humbert Humbert -so precisely constructed by Nabokov. It’s erotic in his interpretation of events, but her mocking disinterest and prepubescent status, quickly squelches any hot mutuality or full-bodied eroticism. She becomes a prisoner of his, but more so of his mind, where she plays out beautifully in prose as something very different than her reality.

But, what’s hot about it, like any thing that I think is hot, is that which is not said.

Do love that book. Love it. Love Nabokov. A genius. A joy to read.

 

They're not works of erotic nature, but I have always had a weakness for the women in Robert Heinlein's later works. He writes them very lushly....

I don't read much erotic fiction anymore, although I confess to still reading the occasional stroke story online. But when I was much younger, I remember fondly the collections of Nancy Friday, of women recounting their sexual fantasies and sometimes experiences. I think she had one of men, too. But they were great. Got me through many a dateless Saturday night.

 

Any good picture books? ( heh )

Piers Anthony huh? How many puns are in that one?

 

Not a challenging work of literature -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Penis-Pokey-Christopher-Behrens/dp/1594741484#reader_1594741484
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I found it a tad disturbung that they had used ones for sale for a few pence each.

 

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Her skill was to place me into a deep dream-state before unfolding the action. It was like drug-enhanced, but without drugs.


@Cayvemann ... Piers Anthony. maaan, in addition to his fairies and centaurs, he went to some incredible places of human and alien possibility. I've always enjoyed the way he peppers his SF with Tex Avery eyes-on-springs moments. Remember those aliens who'd roll around on uniballs, and sex involved one releasing its ball and then the two sharing one ball in both their sockets? That was so far away from Kansas that Toto was never seen again. I sometimes think he forced rigid, though complex, logical structure on the big picture of his books, because he knew that when he got down to actually writing, he'd be like a match that has been thrown into the firework box.

 

I read Happy Hooker a long time ago. Probably my first sexy novel. Good stuff. Anais Nin wrote some awesome stuff. I appreciate the responses so far and will check out some of them. Lots of the current authors write about sex - some more graphic than others. To me, erotica is more than just sex stories. I like a "story" plus the sex.

 

Looking for Mr. Goodbar, read the book and then watch the movie with Diane Keaton and Tom Berenger. If the Ira Levin book Sliver is anything like the movie based on the book.

 

Portnoy's Complaint? Never liked it myself, but lots of people did. Not necessarily an erotic book, but certainly explicit.

 

Delta of Venus by Anais Nin. Go with the classics, always.

 

Yep! Definitely a good one. Read that one a couple of times.

 

These suggestions are both digital, but I think they're both entertaining (and pretty hot) reads.

The first is called "Good Intentions" and you can find it on amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/Good-Intentions-ebook/dp/B0054E8QYE. It's a pretty neat little story about a guy who stops a ritual to enslave a demon and an angel and ends up with both of them instead bound to him. There's some cool mythology that the author came up with and plenty of good sex scenes, so definitely worth checking out if you're ok with a bit of a fantasy-oriented story.

The second is ongoing and, being up front here, based on incest, so if that's an automatic turn off for you, definitely not worth checking in to. I don't have any real life interest in incest, but it can make for some interesting and pretty hot story-telling if done well. Also, as I mentioned, this story is ongoing and has no end in sight, so if you're only interested in finished products, go ahead and skip this one, as well. It's called "Just the Six of Us" and is about a guy living with his four sisters and the voice inside his head that's telling him to do all sorts of untoward things to them. You can find it here: http://www.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=1226604&page=submissions

 

I loved the Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by Anne Rice (originally writing as A.N. Roquelaure), but they're extremely BDSM themed, so if that's not your thing you might not care for them. Also, there's also quite a bit of homosexual action in there. I didn't mind reading those sections, but if those sort of scenes straight up turn you off then you might be best to avoid them (especially books two and three.)

 

Sleeping Beauty Trilogy it's nice, but as you said, it depends a lot on people's taste

 

I've got to second the Sleeping Beauty books as well. It does venture into some light kink, but nothing too out there for most people. The first book at least should cater to most people's sensibilities, and even if books 2 and 3 go a bit further, they are still pretty hot.

 

An erotic book to a man can be anything from the bra section of the Sears catalogue to a dog eared fuck book you find in the garage at your grandpa's house. Opus Pistorum by Henry Miller, was published after the Author's death might be construed as an 'erotic book'.Under the rooftops of Paris by Miller is also a good read. Erotia universalis volume I and II by Gilles Ne'ret is more a chronologists view of art posing as pornograghy or pornography posing as art. The examples of RCrumb's early work is worth the price of volume II. Women by Charles Bukowski may not be erotic but it does reveal a self admitted dirty old man's experiences with the sudden attention's of women resulting from his writing. Your mileage may vary.