Reading Books For Pleasure

[FurryFury]

I, too loved her series. I used to live in NC and spent quite a bit of time in Blowing Rock on vacation, the setting for her fictional town. And agree on her themes of grace and tolerance.

Especially now that I live near a border and am seriously troubled by our immigration policies. Talk about needing grace and tolerance....

'nother thread....

I agree!

 

[DomWharfsBitch]

I am reading "Shocking Pink" by Erica Spindler..here is a snyposis of it....

Fifteen years ago, Andie, Julie, and Raven spied on a pair of mysterious lovers engaged in a deadly game no one was supposed to know about. Especially not the girls, whose curiosity deepened into a dangerous obsession. Now, 15 years later, someone who knows about their secret is watching them, and suddenly Andie doesn't know who her friends are--because loyalty can be murder.

It is summertime for 15 year olds Julie, Raven and Andie who live in Thistledown, Missouri. They discover that in an unoccupied home in a nearby neighborhood sexually deviant activities are going on between a Mr. and Mrs. X. -- so named because they are masked with black scarves, employ cuffs, ropes, etc. The teenagers investigate and that means watching every time they can. Their secret observations gradually begin to erode their friendship as each reacts differently to what they are seeing. Eventually Mrs. X is found dead, hanging from a rope in a position the kids had seen before, blindfolded by a black scarf. Her murder remains unsolved.


This book has some BDSM in it...They are watching a couple they have dubbed Mr and Mrs X playing some BDSM games..Very excited and good..A book I have had trouble putting down..

 

[FurryFury]

Sounds great! I'm going to add it into the noms on the BDSM book club! Thanks!

 

[00Syd]

I just finished Ian Fleming's The Spy Whole Loved Me, the only book in his 007 series that was not from James Bond's point of view. The story is written from the point of view of a girl he saves from a couple of gangsters in upstate New York. There is a quote I thought some people here might be interested in, taken from the girls musings after having sex with Bond:

"All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken. It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that had made his act of love so piercingly wonderful. That and the coinciding of nerves completely relaxed after the removal of tension and danger, the warmth of gratitude, and a woman's natural feeling for her hero." (Fleming, 148)

Now, this is not the first time that Ian Flemings says something like this in one of his books. In From Russia With Love he says:

“All women want to be swept off their feet. In their dreams they long to be slung over a mans shoulder and taken into a cave and raped.” (Fleming, 137)

Ian Fleming writes James Bond as being incredibly Dominant with a capital D, and all of the women he encounters (Except for the villains) are submissive. Even Pussy Galore in Goldfinger, a tough lesbian gang leader from New York, is actually a submissive little girl at heart:

“Bond said firmly, ‘Lock that door Pussy, take off that sweater and come into bed. You’ll catch cold.’
She did as she was told, like an obedient child.
She lay in the crook of Bond’s arm and looked up at him. She said, not in a gangster’s voice, or a Lesbian’s, but in a girl’s voice, ‘Will you write to me in Sing Sing?’
Bond looked down into the deep blue-violet eyes that were no longer hard, imperious. He bent down and kissed them lightly. He said, ‘They told me you only liked women.’
She said, ‘I never met a man before.’
…Bond smiled down into the pale, beautiful face. He said, ‘All you need is a course of TLC.’
…She looked at the passionate, rather cruel mouth waiting above hers. She reached up and brushed back the coma of black hair that had fallen over his right eyebrow. She looked into the fiercely slitted grey eyes. ‘When’s it going to start?’…He said softly, ‘Now.’ His mouth came ruthlessly down on hers.” (Fleming, 263)

There have been hundreds of papers and books written about how sexist Ian Fleming was and the terrible way he portrays women in his books, but does anyone think differently? I'm interested to know what people think about James Bond, the books, and Ian Fleming himself. Was he sexist, or merely subscribed to a different lifestyle?

Or does anyone just like the books and want to talk about them?

 

[graceanne]

I'm working my way through all the JD Robb books.

 

[FurryFury]

I just finished Ian Fleming's The Spy Whole Loved Me, the only book in his 007 series that was not from James Bond's point of view. <snip>

That actually sounds hot! What a great write up, thank you!

 

[FurryFury]

I'm working my way through all the JD Robb books.

I think I've read one of his or hers? What genre?

 

[00Syd]

That actually sounds hot! What a great write up, thank you!

My pleasure, haha, doesn't seem like anyone else has read them though. Its too bad, I am so in love with the books, but no one I know has read a single one! I have no one to talk about them with.

 

[WriterDom]

"All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken. It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that had made his act of love so piercingly wonderful. That and the coinciding of nerves completely relaxed after the removal of tension and danger, the warmth of gratitude, and a woman's natural feeling for her hero." (Fleming, 148)


Yeah that's good. mmm... semi-rape

 

[graceanne]

I think I've read one of his or hers? What genre?

They're mysteries. It's Nora Roberts pseudonym for when she wants to write a straight up mystery. It's her 'in death' series. The one I'm reading right now is called Judgement in death. The next one is Betrayal in Death. Nora Roberts writes great mysteries - I rarely read mysteries cause I normally figure out 'who dunnit' about half way through, but she quite often keeps me guessing until the end.

 

[FurryFury]

They're mysteries. It's Nora Roberts pseudonym for when she wants to write a straight up mystery. It's her 'in death' series. The one I'm reading right now is called Judgement in death. The next one is Betrayal in Death. Nora Roberts writes great mysteries - I rarely read mysteries cause I normally figure out 'who dunnit' about half way through, but she quite often keeps me guessing until the end.

I don't guess. I do enjoy mysteries unless they require guessing.

 

[FurryFury]

My pleasure, haha, doesn't seem like anyone else has read them though. Its too bad, I am so in love with the books, but no one I know has read a single one! I have no one to talk about them with.

Hmm, I was going to put in on hold but my library doesn't have it.

Curses!

Foiled again.

 

[graceanne]

I don't guess. I do enjoy mysteries unless they require guessing.

LOL I like to try and figure out 'who dunnit'. It's part of the fun, for me.

 

[00Syd]

Hmm, I was going to put in on hold but my library doesn't have it.

Curses!

Foiled again.

Haha Keep your eye out at yard sales and flea markets, about half of the Bond books I have are first or second edition paperbacks I've picked up here and there.

 

[Kierae]

Fledgling by Octavia Butler -different take on vampires. I have read several of her books and really enjoy her writing. This book won't have a sequel unfortunately since the author died which sucks.

 

[FurryFury]

Fledgling by Octavia Butler -different take on vampires. I have read several of her books and really enjoy her writing. This book won't have a sequel unfortunately since the author died which sucks.

I'm always up for a good vampire book!

I've read some Octavia Butler that I enjoyed.

It was sci fi though.

 

[FurryFury]

Haha Keep your eye out at yard sales and flea markets, about half of the Bond books I have are first or second edition paperbacks I've picked up here and there.

I'll do that!

 

[graceanne]

The new Anita Blake book comes out next month!

 

[FurryFury]

The new Anita Blake book comes out next month!

Do you think a towel should come with all of her books?

 

[EmpressFi]

The new Anita Blake book comes out next month!

oooooooo I didnt know that

 

[graceanne]

Do you think a towel should come with all of her books?

Can I plead the fifth on that?

oooooooo I didnt know that

Me either, but I was looking through all the author sites to see who had stuff coming out. Her new books is called Blood Noir and you can already pre-order it. AND she has the first chapter posted on her site. It's really hot.


Now where did that towel go?

 

[ShyVixen]

Can I plead the fifth on that?



Me either, but I was looking through all the author sites to see who had stuff coming out. Her new books is called Blood Noir and you can already pre-order it. AND she has the first chapter posted on her site. It's really hot.


Now where did that towel go?

*hands out towels*

I'm really looking forward to that one. her newest Merry one comes out in Oct/Nov callled Swallowing Darkness. I really hope that title is taken literally! lol

syd, very interesting stuff on the Bond series. I've never read any of the books, but it looks like I'll have to add them to the list. I don't think he was sexiest. I never, ever got the Dom vibe from the movies until Daniel Craig took over. It's really interesting Fleming wrote him dominating.

right now I'm reading:

Forbidden Magic by Cheyenne McCray. Nice take on witches and demons, and very erotic.

 

[FurryFury]

I'm reading a Dresden Files book atm. When I'm done with it, I will start on our BDSM selection for April!

 

[ShyVixen]

I'm reading a Dresden Files book atm. When I'm done with it, I will start on our BDSM selection for April!

I have the first few books in the Jim Butcher series but never seem to get around to reading them, would you recommend them?

 

[FurryFury]

I have the first few books in the Jim Butcher series but never seem to get around to reading them, would you recommend them?

Absolutely! The first one was just so so to me but each volume has gotten better and better. I'm hooked now!