NOIRTRASH
Literotica Guru
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I read constantly, mostly noir hard-crime novels, from Dashiell Hammett's 1920s efforts to current best-sellers. And I read widely from other categories. I just finished an obscure memoir of a boy who fought in the Revolution from 1775 to 1783, and I'm reading von Mannheim's memoir of World War 2 in Russia. I consume plenty of neuro-biology books and bio-philosophy books about the origin of organic molecules and life. The Bible got it right with clay. Clay replicates itself.
I read few LIT stories tho I read plenty 10 years ago. Almost all of them are crap, but occasionally I fall over a story by a writer with talent and her nose pointed in the right direction. Crudely said, the best LIT fare is basic dog fucks dog with a patina of mitigating circumstances readers can relate to. Keep it simple and scratch the itch. Lawrence Block wrote a ton of porn in his early years before he switched to hard crime. I recommend him as a place to learn porn. He wrote plenty of porn stories for early porn magazines of the 60s, SWANK comes to mind.
Most LIT stuff is show & tell without the show.
I read few LIT stories tho I read plenty 10 years ago. Almost all of them are crap, but occasionally I fall over a story by a writer with talent and her nose pointed in the right direction. Crudely said, the best LIT fare is basic dog fucks dog with a patina of mitigating circumstances readers can relate to. Keep it simple and scratch the itch. Lawrence Block wrote a ton of porn in his early years before he switched to hard crime. I recommend him as a place to learn porn. He wrote plenty of porn stories for early porn magazines of the 60s, SWANK comes to mind.
Most LIT stuff is show & tell without the show.