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11th July 2012, 09:46 AM
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| rune  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Cumbria
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| Recommendations-Well Written Erotic Fantasy Since we've had a big discussion about not so good erotic fantasy novel - LOL I was wondering which books would be considered well written for this type of fantasy? |
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11th July 2012, 01:51 PM
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| Easily amused  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Canada
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| Re: Recommendations-Well Written Erotic Fantasy Not sure if this is what you mean, but the first 3 Kushiel books (by Jaqueline Carey) might fit the bill. I was disappointed by the sequels, though. I stopped reading the series after the Scion book. Also the early Ann Bishop series (Black Jewels). |
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12th July 2012, 04:21 PM
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| Lagomorphing  | Re: Recommendations-Well Written Erotic Fantasy Some of Storm Constantine's stuff is quite racy, and pretty well-written. I wouldn't actually class any of the books I've read as erotic novels, because the other aspects are more important, but she did publish a collection of short stories called The Thorn Boy, which is closer to erotica (but not as good). |
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13th July 2012, 02:28 PM
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| Being deviant IS my art.  Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Florida
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| Re: Recommendations-Well Written Erotic Fantasy Oh and while I am on a Piers Anthony kick, there is his Pornucopia. Though this one is NOT for the faint of heart. It is described on his website as " a picaresque black comedy that transgresses all bounds of everyday good taste." And that is the truth!  Only thing is it was originally released as a signed limited edition hardcover, and I do not know if it was ever published in any other form. |
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13th July 2012, 03:51 PM
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| Mad Mountain Man  | Re: Recommendations-Well Written Erotic Fantasy I believe there was another one from him called The Magic Fart. I think both are available from Amazon, though I'm not sure I'd recommend either, but then as I haven't read either that's probably a little unfair to PA. However I'm not sure these would be described as erotica, I suspect they go a bit beyond that! |
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19th July 2012, 06:41 AM
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| Registered User Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Merseyside
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| Re: Recommendations-Well Written Erotic Fantasy Tried reading Piers Anthony once. Fun writing style but would you call him "erotic" or just "let's not hide away from the fact that human beings are driven by basic desires and bad things happen to good people in space". Bio of a space tyrant (vol 1) was enough with the refugee pod being repeatedly boarded by pirates by one thing on their mind, and they didn't care who they did it to (at first the women, then the girls, and in some cases, boys) The War of Powers by Vardeman and Milan could be my first foray into "it's a fantasy novel... oh, hang on..." when the lead female tries to steal from the lead male in chapter one, gets caught by him, cue seduction and sex scene and it just goes on from there! But would you call that erotic or just "we're using sex as part of the story?" |
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21st July 2012, 10:16 PM
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| Banishment this world!  | Re: Recommendations-Well Written Erotic Fantasy Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series was borderline to being considered erotic imo, it certainly used sexual content often as a plot device. Whether it's 'good' or not is debatable. I certainly saw my way to the end of the series and enjoyed the story that was there, but the sexual content in the books did come across quite masochistic for the most part. It's probably not quite explicit enough to be considered 'erotic' but there was enough detail in the scenes to flavour it in that direction. |
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