The Story of O arrived today. On the front cover it says before 50 shades of Grey.....

[CuriousMama]

They must have printed a lot of new copies on the wave of FSOG. I haven't read that or have any desire to but I dp said 'O' is a good read. He'll be reading this to me

I'm normally an avid library user but they didn't have this in or to order. Plus I didn't fancy getting an erotic novel from there tbh. Nice to have a new clean one

Anne Rice is usually a good read

it's better than 50SOG but it's still shit IMHO.

the French have a bloody nerve talking about le vice anglais when their own smut is obsessed with spanking and anal sex. there's hardly a natural act in th Story of O although I grant it's better written.

i did once start to read the 1000 days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade. I think I lasted till about Tuesday afternoon. Every page is these blokes "embuggering" i.e. having anal sex with servant girls while another one pulls her teeth out with pliers to make it more arousing. i'm not surprised they locked him up. he deserved it just for referring to his will as an "engine". FFS....

EuzabetgX that book sounds awful!

opps hit wrong keys ElizabethX

yeah, I went through a phase of being interested in historical erotica and read lots of it. some it is real class, notably anything by the Earl of Rochester. Fanny Hill is also excellent because although written by a man it is somehow very convincing.

hence to Marquis de Sade, who was however a sick sick puppy, the idea is that the lower-class women's contortions of pain make it more erotic for the "libertine" as he buggers them. it's unreadably bad because as well as being repetitive it's nasty.

Story of O is in the same vein, no teeth pulling or maiming of limbs but there's blood, weals and mainly anal and oral sex. ISTR she gets off, but mostly / only from those, not from anything a normally adjusted person would enjoy.

I do know a joke though -

Masochist: Whip me.
Sadist: No.

think about it....

Yes I get the joke.

Thanks for the tip I'll hunt out some Earl of R.

Rochester is incredibly clever, but not a turn-on. Cold as bloody charity. FUNNY, though.

yes, the effing and blinding cracks me up...

He's much ruder than most people would be nowadays. F-word and c-word all over the place, as natural terms, not expletives. Take that, EL James.

120 Days of Sodom is the only book I've had to cast aside in disgust, because of the graphic descriptions of violence. I'm not sure whether to post any details, but it is vile.

Story of O is OK - but pretty dull once she's entered the academy (or whatever it was called), and the special 'graduation' ring indicating total and instant submission to a shadowy group of rich men wherever and whenever encountered did nothing for me.

Yes, it went on too long - O, I mean. First third is good. Agree too that de Sade is icky. Anyone read Bataille's Story of the Eye? Eek.

Well dp's reading it at the moment and you lot have put me off so I'm not going to bother

I've just got another book from the library Chris Cleave's 'The other hand' it's supposed to be good. Not erotic afaik? Think I've gone off that idea now.

The Story of O was one of the many books that was passed around by us in school! We called it The Story of Ow.

Try these...

www.amazon.co.uk/Pearl-Bill-Adler/dp/1562014102/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344862926&sr=1-1

www.amazon.co.uk/Oyster-v/dp/1562015028/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1344863070&sr=1-6

The Oyser also has volumns 3-4 and 5-6...