I remember really hoping there was going to something nasty raunchy in Fanny Hill. With such a promising title ... I don't remember if I stuck it out. I was certainly disappointed.
I have never read Fanny Hill, but I read Erica Jong's re-telling of it at about 11 THAT seemed raunchy but mostly because of 1) the gay sex and 2) the chapter that listedlike, 100 nicknames for the penis.
I don't remember learning to read. I know my mother read to me nightly, and not from pictures books, but from nancy Drew and Little Women and such. I read anything I could get my hands on, which in my house was old nursing textbooks romance novels and classics. At the libraries, I read mysteries and fantasy. I do remember reading Our Town and making my mother (I was an only child) split the parts with me and act it out, with me directing. My poor mother. I used to also try to re-write Agatha Christie novels as plays.
I read Erica Jong's too. I can't remember if I liked it or not.
I liked it. There were pirates in it.
The coprophagy got me down. I think that's where I quit.
Fitzgerald voted yay -- Durbin voted Nay.
There were pirates in it.
I think there were gay pirates! Of course I think I read this at the same time as he marathon clan of the Cave Bear readinfs so this may be taken withagrain of salt (or Jondalar's giant womanmaker)
I have two bookcrossing books that I am ready to part with. Ithought I'd offer them here first.
Emma - Jane Austen
Box Socials - W.P. Kinsella
If you are interested, either mention it in thread or email me.
I always thought Fanny Hill was a movie about a group of US marines attempting to conquer a vietcong brothel
Cross-posted from my LJ:
One of my favourite writers to come out of the rich vein of fantasy and sf in the mid-80s is Steven R. Boyett. Steve has a superb voice and a way of looking at things just slightly askew that makes you take a fresh and second look at familiar objects and ideas. In 1983, he wrote a book that I loved called Ariel, which was very well-received and Steve began an ambitious series of novels, the first of which was called the Architect of Sleep. He then encountered some difficulty with his publisher and the short version of the story is that the second novel, The Philosopher of Dreams, and the rest of the series never reached print. Nor did his subsequent novels, books that I am dying to read, but the business of publishing won't bring to me.
However, and here's the cool part: Steve has a website -
Steven R. Boyett
There, you can follow a link to the e-book version of Ariel and to a collection of short stories called Orphans (Steve is terrific in the short form, as well). Some of these short stories are new to me, so I'm keen to have the chance to catch up with them.
And thus, I bring them to you.
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