If you had to choose the best...

[Lorihw]

Removed by OP

 

[laurel-marie]

Are you looking for fiction or non-fiction?
A good fiction read is Topping from Below by Laura Reese. She also wrote Panic Snap.

 

[Seduce]

I sort of liked Story of O...... I am generally for classics.
If not that, you can always go and search for De Sade...... although 120 Days of Sodom (or however you translate that one) was a bit too much for me. But Justine is not bad as well as Philosophy in the Bedroom.

 

[Lorihw]

Fiction definitely and preferably something I can pick up without much of a problem around home. I leave on Thursday.

 

[laurel-marie]

I know (in my library at least) they have the Laura Reese books.
I do not know about The Story of O, but that should be in a book store. Larry Brooks had some real good dark ones....not 100% BDSM but will show up on a list of BDSM fiction.
Robin Schone is great for getting in the mind and creating a dark scene..not all BDSM though.
Hmmm....Not really knowing your taste it is hard to say...even within the BDSM books. But if you want some other book ideas PM me, I will be happy to share.

 

[Bandit58]

If you're into fantasy at all then Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel trilogy might interest you. The main female character is an anguisette which means she experiences pain as pleasure. There are some very erotic scenes mixed in with a very detailed story. The books are:

Kushiel's Dart
Kushiel's Chosen
Kushiel's Avatar

The first book includes one of my favourite lines ever: "That which yields is not always weak."

 

[Quint]

Chiming in in favor of the Kushiel series. And for the record, I laughed at "Topping from Below," rolled my eyes at "Beauty," and yawned through "Story of O." De Sade I liked better but still something I'd have to read in installments. So not exactly an easy audience here.

 

[TaintedB]

Chiming in in favor of the Kushiel series. And for the record, I laughed at "Topping from Below," rolled my eyes at "Beauty," and yawned through "Story of O." De Sade I liked better but still something I'd have to read in installments. So not exactly an easy audience here.

Uh, so what is your opinion of Gor?

 

[Quint]

Uh, so what is your opinion of Gor?

Never read 'em, but I predict that it would be similar to that of the Beauty series--lots of potential in theory, never actualized to my satisfaction. Yeah I'm a tough cookie.

 

[Lorihw]

I ended up getting The story of O - Topping from Below was out of print, so couldn't get that. I also got Carrie's Story and Safe Word by Molly Weatherfield. Don't know if they're good or not, but the bookstore had them... any one read them?

 

[TaintedB]

Never read 'em, but I predict that it would be similar to that of the Beauty series--lots of potential in theory, never actualized to my satisfaction. Yeah I'm a tough cookie.

Actually, the Gor series is quite actualized. But only if you're a rather mean 14-year-old male. ;0 Here is my three sentence synopsis of that series:

--Incredibly mind-deadingly repetitive iteration of an extreme "might equals right" misogynistic chauvanism practiced by sword wielding savages with spaceships.
--Anything that started an Internet phenomenon can't be all bad...can it?
--A number of very hot jacking-off-to scenes and ideas: rare oases in the midst of a barren literary desert.

 

[Lorihw]

I saw the Beauty series, and didn't get it - sounds like I may have made a wise decision.

 

[Unafraid]

I saw the Beauty series, and didn't get it - sounds like I may have made a wise decision.

It's not terrible. It's been ages since I read them, but I think I remember that the first was the best of the 3.

Then again, it was some of the very first erotic writings I ever read, so I didn't have much to judge it by.

I should expand my collection, but with so much material here at lit, I'll be wading through it for quite some time, I imagine.