:lol: what an excellent readQuote:
Originally Posted by JBI
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:lol: what an excellent readQuote:
Originally Posted by JBI
Oh, I forgot to mention The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio - especially for something written in its time, in the mid-1300's, it definitely has several scenes that made me blush! I cannot imagine how taboo it must have seemed in its time, but he meant it as a comedy, and it certainly had me laughing here and there - something needed during the Black Plague times. :nod:
Oh, I just thought of one I read that dealt with the subject. "Lady of the Camilias" by Alexander Dumas (the son of Dumas who wrote "Three Musketeers") is a very good book. A ballet and an opera was based on the book. I have seen both in DVD versions and think they are great.
No Orchids for Miss Blandish by James Hadley Chase.
Anything by Hank Janson, who appears to be in reprint (see Googled extract below):
Steve: Ah, Hank Janson ...
'Brings back memories to me of well-thumbed paperbacks passed eagerly but surreptitiously hand to hand in UK barracks-rooms long ago ... Hank Janson [Stephen D. Francis] was a British writer of pulp paperbacks that were simply soft-porn tales under the guise of gangster novels. He wrote a couple of dozen of them, in a ludicrous "American" style that was even then seen as hilariously off-key. (Jansen shared this laughable ineptitude with American accents and slang as did James Hadley Chase [Rene Raymond] another British wannbe-Yank author of the time.] In his hey-day - 1946-1956 - Janson enjoyed large sales in the UK despite his corn-ball writing style, entirely because of their lipsmacking descriptions of female bodies and sex scenes that went as far as a British writer dared to in those days of strict censorship. Finally, Jansen just managed to avoid criminal prosecution on pornography charges, by skipping off to live in Spain. I think his publisher did serve a couple of years in jail on similar charges. It was amusing to me to see Jansen's name pop up again half a century after I last read one his paperbacks. It'll be interesting to see how reprints of his books sell now. What was considered pretty raunchy in the '40s would seem tame today compared with the almost obligatory obscenity in most books nowadays, regardless of genre
It seems everyone missed the most obvious and arguably, the most shocking: Marquis de Sade.
Moll Flanders- Daniel Defoe
Jan Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
Very recently, I tried one John Irving's book for the first time. There were explicit sex scene in the book. I was told that his work is considered literature. Sex and different kinds of sexual relationship of the 21st century could be common in his books.
Tom Jones a Foundling by Feilding....
The Arabian Nights
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Originally Posted by Mark F.
Tropic of Cancer/Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller.
Anything by William S Burroughs is bound to be filled with deeply, deeply disturbing sex scenes.
Tales of Decameron by Boccacio
The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogara - Alison Fell
White Hotel etc - Thomas
Atomised etc - Houellebeqc
I mentioned The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogara in the thread on Japanese Literature. If it were more widley known about, Alison Fell's collection of Japanese erotic stories would put Viagra out of business. That one about the giant goldfish pond was amazing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Whifflingpin