The Naughty Bits & Classic Nasty (Brilliant idea/Book recommendation)

[shereads]

Way to earn a buck from someone else's writing! Jack Murnighan, you're my new quasi-hero.



The Naughty Bits: The Steamiest and Most Nasty Sex Scenes from the World's Great Books

"Jack Murnighan, former editor-in-chief of sex-friendly Web site Nerve.com, gathers short erotic excerpts from works by more than 70 authors from the Marquis de Sade to Thomas Pynchon, Sappho to Jeanette Winterson, Ovid to J.G. Ballard. Culled from his popular weekly online column, The Naughty Bits (also Brit slang for genitalia) is billed as "the book that literary perverts have been waiting for." One of several recent Nerve.com tie-ins, it's a great idea and one needn't be especially literary or perverted to enjoy it. Murnighan's thoroughly good-natured, erudite introductions add to the bawdy fun."

~ Publishers Weekly at Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/t...1/002-9601509-0955267?_encoding=UTF8&v=glance



The sequel to The Naughty Bits:

Classic Nasty: More Naughty Bits: A Rollicking Guide to Hot Sex in Great Books, from the Iliad to the Corrections

"Jack Murnighan, former editor in chief of the erotica website Nerve.com, is back with a new collection of the steamiest sex scenes from the greatest books of all time. Here is the literary sex-education readers have always lusted for, with over 80 excerpts by authors ranging from Homer to James Baldwin, Kierkegaard to Judy Blume, Scheherazade to Franzen. Who knew there was so much bumping and grinding in Goethe? How about Dali’s fascination with masturbation? Ever curious about what made James Joyce purr? Murnighan supplements each bite-sized excerpt with a lively, insightful introduction that will help readers see the world’s great books as they’ve never seen them before."

~ Amazon.com review

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1568582501/nerve/002-9601509-0955267

 

[The_Fool]

Readers Digest for porn???

 

[shereads]

Readers Digest for porn???

Motto: "No Moby, Just Dick."

 

[Brinnie]

Brilliant fucking idea.

 

[Pure]

there've been such collections before (Derek Parker's), but they're always fun to read.
esp. in seeing whether a fine writer stumbles in sex narrating or brings it off with some freshness.

 

[shereads]

there've been such collections before (Derek Parker's), but they're always fun to read.
esp. in seeing whether a fine writer stumbles in sex narrating or brings it off with some freshness.

You don't happen to know where I can find a copy of Edith Wharton's original manuscript for The House of Mirth, do you? I have a friend who swears that Lily Bart was the first character in fiction to scream, "I'm cummminggggg!" He has to be wrong. Wharton loved to do live readings of her work; she wouldn't have needed an editor to tell her that more than one 'g' makes the word unpronouncable.