The BDSM Book Club Discussion Thread

I know, I'm sorry. I just couldn't find it online and can't afford it elsewhere.
 
graceanne said:
I know, I'm sorry. I just couldn't find it online and can't afford it elsewhere.

I'm sorry to hear that.

*hugs*

I love you anyway.

*smiles*

Fury :rose:
 
Calling for any new nominees!

It's getting close to the end of the month.

Fury :rose:
 
I nominate something I can get online with limewire - with K getting laid off new books SO aren't gonna happen.
 
graceanne said:
I nominate something I can get online with limewire - with K getting laid off new books SO aren't gonna happen.

I'm good with that. I'd just like to have some company! Let me know of a title or two you'd like to read okay?

Fury :rose:
 
FurryFury said:
I'm good with that. I'd just like to have some company! Let me know of a title or two you'd like to read okay?

Fury :rose:

I'd actually like to read something new. What are you thinking? I'll check and see if I can get it.
 
This is what I have so far. If I've missed any nominations please tell me.

Of these I would like to read, The Challenge, Slave Trade, Wild Women and the Kurshiel book but I'm open to just about anything.

Fury :rose:

1.) Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey

In this engrossing adult fantasy tale, the fascinating Phèdre nó Delaunay fights to save her queen and country in a battle whose greatest weapon proves to be Phèdre herself. This sequel to Carey's accomplished debut novel, Kushiel's Dart, finds Phèdre, now Comtesse de Montrève, once again plying her skills as an anguissette--a courtesan for whom pain becomes pleasure--and her talents as a spy. She uncovers a conspiracy of treason and murder and begins an adventure that takes her once more to distant lands in the company of an intriguing cast of characters--and a new confrontation with her old enemy, Melisande Shahrizai.

2.) Heir To The Shadows, by Anne Bishop, from The Black Jewels Trilogy which includes-- Heir to the shadows and Queen of the darkness.

In Heir to the Shadows, Jaenelle's vampiric, adoptive father, Saetan, and her foster-family of demons shelter her. To restore her memory and emotional balance, they move to Kaeleer, where Jaenelle befriends the kindred--animals with magical and communicative powers--and gathers a circle of young Queens. She also heals Lucivar, Daemon's half-brother, who offers a brother's love and a warrior's fealty. As she recovers strength and memory, Jaenelle resolves to restore Daemon and cleanse Terreille.

Bishop subverts readers' expectations; the "darkest" powers reside in virtuous characters, demons and vampires are kindly, and Jaenelle's adolescence is more comically normal than horrific. Her vibrant characters and descriptions will keep readers hooked, anxiously awaiting what promises to be a riveting conclusion. --Nona Vero

3.)The Challenge (Mass Market Paperback) by Susan Kearney

Book Description
She was shot protecting the president, and woke up naked, in the arms of a hunk....A hunk named Kahn, who told Secret Service agent Tessa Camen an outlandish story about traveling through time, saving the world, and a Challenge only she can accept. Kahn offers her proof she can't refute: Tessa has been brought forward through time to save Earth by winning an intergalactic challenge. Kahn only has a few weeks to train Tessa to use the psi-abilities he insists she has. He is confident in the success of a time-honored method that uses sexual frustration to bring out her powers, but Tessa is dubious. She's a martial arts expert and can fight her way through anything, but she's never had much luck with emotions.Luckily for Earth, Kahn can be very convincing....

4.) [B}Wild Women : Contemporary Short Stories By Women Celebrating Women.[/B] edited by Sue Thomas.

Contents The tiger's bride / Angela Carter -- Woman from America / Bessie Head -- The English disease / Nina Fitzpatrick -- The smile of a mountain witch / Ohba Minako -- Two words / Isabel Allende -- The debutante / Leonora Carrington -- Liking men / Margaret Atwood -- Simmering / Margaret Atwood -- In the garden / Darcey Steinke -- The odalisque, extinct / Diana Hartog -- Bloodmantle / Tanith Lee -- Sleeping Beauty, revised / Jill McCorkle -- All strapped in / Sue Thomas -- Orchids to you, dear / Fiona Cooper -- Really, doesn't crime pay? / Alice Walker -- Stone-eating girl / Meena Alexander -- The raw brunettes / Lorraine Schein -- I like to look / Kathy Page -- Planetesimal / Keri Hulme -- Perma red / Debra Earling -- The queen's chamber / A. N. Roquelaure (Anne Rice) -- Her thighs / Dorothy Allison -- Four bare legs in a bed / Helen Simpson -- How to save your own life / Erica Jong -- It's bad luck to die / Elizabeth McCracken -- MindMovie / Christine Slater -- A day at the peep show / Veronica Vera -- Roses / Evelyn Lau -- Julia and the bazooka / Anna Kavan -- Silver water / Amy Bloom -- In my next life / Pam Houston -- Many mothers / Beverley Daurio -- Suicide / Mariarosa Sclauzero -- Autobiography / Carol Emshw.

From Library Journal
Capitalizing on the appeal of Clarissa Pinkola Este's popular Women Who Run with the Wolves (LJ 6/15/92), editor Thomas has prepared this volume of short stories that "bring together modern examples of the warrior guises of Wild Woman." Thomas, a novelist and writing instructor whose own "All Strapped In" is included in the volume, divides the works into eight thematic sections-empowerment, sex, and righteous rage, among them-and provides informative introductory remarks to each section. The short stories come from a politically correct mix of contemporary women writers that include Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Pam Houston, Alice Walker, and a number of emerging voices. It's not an essential purchase, but your Wild Women readers will want to check it out.
Debbie Bogenschutz, Cincinnati Technical Coll.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

5.) Topping From Below by Laura Reese.

From Publishers Weekly
The title of this devilishly pornographic?albeit literate?novel is taken from the argot of sadomasochism and refers to a rebellious dynamic in which the dominant partner (the "top") is subtly manipulated by the submissive partner (the "bottom"). After her young sister, Franny, is found murdered?bound, gagged and mutilated?Nora Tibbs, a journalist for the Sacramento Bee, discovers in Franny's computer a diary that details her brief affair with "M.," an arrogant music professor in his late 40s. Cruelly exploiting the overweight, love-starved woman, M. forced Franny to submit to a humiliating gamut of outre sexual practices. Convinced that M. is Franny's murderer, Nora sets out to prove his guilt by pretending to submit to his depraved aberrations. But, to her astonishment, she discovers a dark, pagan side of herself when M. enthralls her with intense, if perilous, sexual pleasure. Graphic descriptions of exotic sexual practices (bondage and discipline, sadomasochism, bestiality, etc.) accumulate, counterpointed by Nora's sweetly romantic relationship with a fellow reporter. The suspense, a bit attenuated by thin secondary characters, also is muted by artless foreshadowing, but the conclusion is satisfying in a savage sort of way and Nora's plunge "down, all the way down" under M.'s manipulations will keep most readers gripped even as they're aware that Reese's shameless pandering is manipulating them in turn. Comparison to Story of O is well earned. 100,000 first printing; Literary Guild and Doubleday Recommended for adult fiction collections.

6.) 'Scandal' by Amanda Quick

From Publishers Weekly
Under the Quick ( Surrender ) pseudonym, veteran romance novelist Jayne Ann Krentz (see review of Silver Linings below) offers a tale of Regency England that, while deftly handled with touches of humor, is more notable for its darker side: the hero and heroine rescue each other from past injuries while challenging each other for control within their relationship. Emily Faringdon, a 24-year-old spinster, adores a man she has never met: Simon Traherne, her favorite correspondent on her favorite subject, romantic poetry. When Simon attends a meeting of Emily's local literary society, he indeed seems to be "the man of her dreams," a handsome earl apparently willing to overlook the scandal in her past--a thwarted elopement. But Simon is interested in her mostly as an instrument for revenge: he blames Emily's father for his own father's ruin and suicide 23 years before. Since then, Simon has plotted to destroy the Faringdons. A romantic with a strong pragmatic streak,pk Emily persuades Simon that marrying her enhances his possibilities for gaining revenge and she pk then begins her own campaign to win his affection and free him from the past that has poisoned his life.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Book Description
From a stately country house in Hampshire to the dazzling drawing rooms of London Society, comes an exquisite tale of an elfin beauty, a vengeful lord, and a sweet love that is sheer poetry.

With her reputation forever tarnished by a youthful indiscretion, lovely Emily Faringdon is resigned to a life of spinsterhood, until she embarks on an unusual correspondence and finds herself falling head over heals in love. Sensitive, intelligent, and high-minded, her noble pen-pal seems to embody everything Emily has ever dreamed of in a man. But the mysterious Earl of Blade is not at all what he seems.

Driven by dark, smoldering passions and a tragic secret buried deep within his soul, Blade has all of London cowering at his feet, but not Emily... never Emily. For even as she surrenders to his seductive charms, she knows the real reason for his amorous wit. And she knows that she must reach the heart of his golden-eyed dragon before the avenging demons of their entwined pasts destroy the only love she has ever known...

7. Top of Her Game by Emma Holly

Style and sensuality. Power and passion...There's something about the Parisian boutique Meilleurs Amis that provokes all who enter to blur the line between business and pleasure. No one knows this better than Beatrix Clouet, the daughter of its infamous and not-so-dearly departed founder, and her best friend-and new management trainee-Lela Turner.

Now, as they try to get their professional and personal lives on track, these best friends will have to weigh the price of love and lust-while making their wildest fantasies come to life... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

8.) One Dark Night by Jaid Black.

One of the hottest, most intense books I''ve ever read. The Hero was literally plucked from my imagination. I cannot stress enough how much I loved this hot, steamy, very sensually arousing book. The best I''ve read in a very very long time...I mean, damn. Seriously The Hero, Thomas, wow... big drooling wow...I want to read more of this author, ASAP! LOL

Finally! A Jaid Black book with a meaningful plot! I was actually engrossed in the mystery of this little who-done-it and not just in the sex scenes. Reading many of Jaid's other stories is a cross between the story line of a cheap porno and the sickeningly sweet endings of a childhood fairy tale. But not this book! Amazing! I hope she keeps it up!

9.) Gordon by Edith Templeton.

Originally written under a pseudonym, this thrilling novel of passion in post-World War II London was banned upon its publication in the late 1960s, and is only now being republished under the author’s real name. Edith Templeton creates an indelible character in the smartly dressed Louisa, a savvy young woman in the midst of a divorce who meets a charismatic man in a pub and within an hour has been sexually conquered by him on a garden bench. Thus begins her baffling but magnetic love affair with, and virtual enslavement to, Richard Gordon.

10.) Slave Trade (Mass Market Paperback) by Susan Wright

Human slaves can never defy their alien masters -- or can they?

Rose Rico never believed the rumors, that the government was secretly selling human beings to the Alphas in exchange for advanced alien technology. The idea that human sex slaves were a luxury item throughout the galaxy was just too ridiculous to take seriously -- until Rose found herself, along with hundreds of other human captives, bound for the far reaches of space, and compelled to cater to the depraved desires of her new alien masters.

As a rule, pleasure slaves don't live very long, especially the stubborn ones. But Rose refuses to give up. Someday, somehow, she'll win back her freedom -- or die trying!

The beginning of a provocative new saga of slavery and rebellion.

12) The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty by A. N. Roquelaure AKA Anne Rice

Not for the timid., January 15, 2007

I loved this book and can't wait to get started on the second of the trilogy, BUT I want to warn that it is definitely NOT for the timid, the easily offended or the closeminded. This is definitely not the Sleeping Beauty story of your childhood. It is extremely erotic and explores many areas of sexual fetishism that some people don't have the stomach to even THINK about.

On the other hand, it is very well written and the plot does keep the pages turning. It is a safe and private way to take a glimpse into the unknown...

Super Erotic, January 9, 2007
Reviewer: P. Blair (Texas) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
Everytime my wife reads selections from this book she becomes very sexy & frisky.

What a mess, October 21, 2006
Reviewer: Jamilla (USA) - See all my reviews
I am sure there are others who have already stated what I am about to write, however I felt it my duty as an educated reader to warn the populace about this book. I enjoy kinky writing just like the next closet freak, however this book was absolute drivel. It made little sense from beginning to end. The writing was beyond elementary. The "show but don't tell" rule of writing is thrown out the window. Everything the reader is supposed to learn is stated by one character or another in very dry and silly dialogue. I don't know how people got turned on while reading this. Its rediculous and not well thought out. Personally I am convinced that Anne Rice's Master made her write and publish this novel as a "punishment", because something so juvenile could not have been a true attempt at well written fiction.

Horriffingly Erotic....., October 20, 2006
Reviewer: K. Caprino "ixfallenanglix" (new york) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)
In this book of slaves,and sexual abuse, you find yourself in the same boat with Beauty and the other slaves. You can't help but to be turned on by it. And at the same time, Beauty keeps her soul and falls in love. The only part that i found boring to read through was the parts where Tristan tells Beauty stories when they sneak away together. But I absolutley loved the book, and thefact that was disturbingly aroused by it.....

13.) Death Row The Trilogy by Jaid Black, includes The Fugitive, The Hunter and The Avenger. Should this book be THREE picks?

"One vision of the future"
It is now 2249 on Earth and women have become rare. There's a terrifying disorder that is affecting certain parts of the population. When one is infected, they become an inhuman monster without a conscience. They'll kill anyone around them, even loved ones.

After 15 years, death row inmate Kerick Riley has finally managed to escape. He's spent every second of his time in prison plotting his escape. He needs to get some answers to questions that have been haunting him all of these years.

Dr. Nellie Kan is a scientist who's working on a serum for the mysterious disorder. It's become her life's work since her mother contracted the disorder and died. One night while she's leaving work Kerick kidnaps her. He brings her back to the Outside and tries to make her his woman.

This is the first book in the Death Row trilogy. This story is a good start to the trilogy. I found this to be a quick read and I finished it in one sitting.

Sexual Content: NC-17, masturbation, and public sex.

Reviewed by Emily Anne
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted January 1, 2003


Also available in paperback (ISBN 1843603675).

Summary

The United Americas of Earth: 2249 A.D.

On the eve of his execution, Death Row inmate Kerick Riley overpowers the guard and escapes the violent penal colony that has been his prison for over fifteen years. On the run to find the answers he seeks, the grim-faced, grey-eyed Kerick has two things on his mind: revenge and woman...

Scientist Nellie Kan has spent the last several years researching a frightening disorder that has developed in certain populations of humans. On the verge of developing a serum, Dr. Kan is kidnapped by an escaped Death Row inmate and claimed as his personal sexual property. Is her captor the key to the answer she seeks, or a lunatic who will destroy them both?

Publisher's Note: DEATH ROW is a three-part erotic suspense serial consisting of the following titles: The Fugitive, The Hunter, and The Avenger.

Sexual Content: Rated NC-17. Genre: Futuristic.

15.) Warrior's Woman by Johanna Lindsey.

Book Description
In the year 2139, fearless Tedra De Arr sets out to rescue her beleaguered planet Kystran from the savage rule of the evil Crad Ce Moerr. Experienced in combat but not in love, the beautiful, untouched Amazon flies with Martha, her wise-cracking, free-thinking computer, to a world where warriors reigns supreme--and into the arms of the one man she can never hope to vanquish: the bronzed barbarian Challen Ly-San-Ter. A magnificent creature of raw yet disciplined desires, the muscle-bound primitive succeeds where no puny Kystran male had before--igniting a raging fire within Tedra that must be extinguished before she can even think of saving her enslaved world. . .

Online Stories:

14.) Tales From Subspace by NIGHTQUEEN1963. http://english.literotica.com/stori...ry.php?id=84817

15.) Night Prowler by Paddymellon http://www.bdsmlibrary.com/stories/...php?storyid=334
 
Or we could read a selection online that interested you, beautiful Graceanne! Just let me know!

Fury :rose:
 
To tell the truth I"m tired of all my stories. let me figure out which of yours I can get, and then I'll let you know which. Cause if it was just a matter of going to the store and getting a new book I've been very interested in that Anne Rice once since I heard of it. :nana:
 
graceanne said:
To tell the truth I"m tired of all my stories. let me figure out which of yours I can get, and then I'll let you know which. Cause if it was just a matter of going to the store and getting a new book I've been very interested in that Anne Rice once since I heard of it. :nana:

Cool! I'm easy. Just let me know!

:)

Fury :rose:
 
Ok. Below is kinda a written run down on the books you chose out. I'd be open to read any of the ones you said you'd like to read, but the three I'm most interested, out of the four you chose, were the The Challenge, Kushiel books, and Wild Women. I can't get The Challenge, or Wild Women. So I say we do Kushiels Chosen. Besides her next one's due in June? It'd be great to get all her Kushiel books done by then, so we can do that one. :nana:

I've read Kushiels Chosen, so we could do that. I still have it.

I'm not sure why 'heir to the shadows' was put in the bdsm book club area. It looks amusing and cool, but not necessarily bdsm-ie.

The Challenge looks interesting. Can't get it.

Wild Woman would be ok, but I can't get it either.

Topping from Below actually looks really interesting.

Read Scandal.

To tell the truth I'm not a huge Emma Holly fan. *shrugs*

A Jade Black story with a plot? This I gotta see.

I've read Gordon. I did not like it.

I wasn't interested in reading Slave Trade, because it looks SO non consentual. I like a little reluctance in my stories, but not rape.

VERY VERY VERY interested in the claiming of sleeping beauty

I've read death row, the trilogy.

Read Warriors Woman.
 
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Kushiel's Chosen by Jacqueline Carey

Did you like the book overall or not? yes

Do you feel it portrays BDSM in a real way, a positive way and/or your way? eh - the sex scenes were definately bdsm-ey but her relationship with Joscelin was not.

Did you like the sex scenes in the book? yes, i wouldn't have minded a bit more detail, though

Did you like the rest of the book, the story in it? yes

Would you be interested in reading another book by this author? yes

What did you like best about this selection? Um . . . well after Joscelin got his head out of his ass, I liked how their relationship grew stronger

What did you like the least? Joscelin having his head up his ass :mad:

How would you have changed the story? I don't know if I would have. Well, other than adding more detail to the sex scenes.
 
graceanne said:
Wait. The index at the front of the thread says that Kushiels chosen was done in november. :confused: Did you mean Kushiel's Avatar?

I must have been mixed up about which one we'd done. So yes, I guess I do mean Chosen.

Honestly I'll read anything you like with you cause I LOVE having company!

Fury :rose:
 
FurryFury said:
I must have been mixed up about which one we'd done. So yes, I guess I do mean Chosen.

Honestly I'll read anything you like with you cause I LOVE having company!

Fury :rose:

LOL I don't blame you - this has got to get a little lonely and boring without people to discuss with. I'd discuss anything chosen, but I can't always get it, and I usually can't afford to buy books. Besides, I wouldn't mind re-reading Kushiels Avatar.
 
Heir To The Shadows claims to be BDSM because the women control and are sadistic to the men. The previous book wasn't to my liking at all. I didn't feel the women were really in control. To me there is a difference between BDSM sadistic and say, cutting off private parts but that could just be me.

Fury :rose:
 
FurryFury said:
Heir To The Shadows claims to be BDSM because the women control and are sadistic to the men. The previous book wasn't to my liking at all. I didn't feel the women were really in control. To me there is a difference between BDSM sadistic and say, cutting off private parts but that could just be me.

Fury :rose:

I've read stories where the author felt that the person who was cruel in the story was in control. I've always been doubtful, because the 'sadist' always has to watch. If he doesn't, one night the person he's torturing will fake sleep and then cut of his penis while he's sleeping, or stab him, or shoot him, or hook him up to some electric device. I've never been interested in those stories, for that reason.
 
The males had FAR too much freedom when they were supposedly controlled by the females, IMO.

Instead of being all sadistic in what I consider a BDSM way would be. The women were simply cruel and dismissive. Pissed me off!

Oh, and it was waaaay non-consensual. Which I can enjoy at times but I'm just saying.

Fury :rose:
 
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In case it's not clear I'm still confused about what book you can get and read. Am I a big dummy or what?

Fury :rose:
 
still going?

I nkotice this has petered out, somewhat. Could we maybe bump it up and get some new readers, since there are so many new members, such as myself? I'd love to partake!
 
wenchhh said:
I nkotice this has petered out, somewhat. Could we maybe bump it up and get some new readers, since there are so many new members, such as myself? I'd love to partake!

Welcome! Yes it's still going alright!

New readers and members are always welcome. Right now we are trying to decide what the May 2007 selection will be.

Fury :rose:
 
wenchhh said:
I nkotice this has petered out, somewhat. Could we maybe bump it up and get some new readers, since there are so many new members, such as myself? I'd love to partake!

If you have any nominations for a BDSM selection just let us know!

Also for other books there is a thread called Reading Books for Pleasure.

:D

Fury :rose:
 
FurryFury said:
In case it's not clear I'm still confused about what book you can get and read. Am I a big dummy or what?

Fury :rose:

I get most of my books through limewire, which makes them free. But if limewire doesn't have the book, then I can't get it, cause I can't afford to buy books.
 
graceanne said:
I get most of my books through limewire, which makes them free. But if limewire doesn't have the book, then I can't get it, cause I can't afford to buy books.

I'm all yours Graceanne. :rose:

Tell me a book, any book and we'll read it!

Fury :rose:
 
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