LOL!! So I'm sitting on the train this morning, reading Henry Miller's....

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..."Under the Roofs of Paris". I'm travelling tonight so I bought this book to read on the plane. I've enjoyed reading Miller in the past so I thought, 'this looks good, I'll take it'.

So, it's a dirty, filthy book. I didn't know that when I bought it. It's just one sex scene after another. So I'm sitting on the train and I can hardly believe what I'm reading. This stuff would be difficult enough to read at home, but on the train?!?

I decide to look it up on Amazon, to see what reviewers had to say about it and the first review says:

"This is not appropriate for train reading., February 25, 2004
Reviewer: A reader
This is like straight-up porn, for your imagination of course. There is virtually no story. If there is, it certainly gets overshadowed by all the sex. It took me long to read this, and it's because I couldn't get over what was going on. There'd be single paragraphs which I'd read over and over... I guess I couldn't believe my eyes. To think up these things is one thing, but to see it written out, is another entirely. This was one of my train-reading books... while I was commuting to work, I'd read on the train. I read THIS book on the train. I'm a lady. I could never divulge the sort of things I had to do before heading to jobs after reading parts of this book. You can physically feel the things that are going on. It's sick, in a good way. If you're up for any of the things mentioned in here, I'd say this book might make a GREAT gift as well. I highly recommend it."

:rofl:

[ET Awful]

1. Hehehe . . . Well, Miller isn't exactly known for his tame writing :)

Why am I reminded of a Seinfeld episode involving overdue library books :).

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2. I realize that.

But 'Under the Roofs of Paris' is really, really um, bawdy.

[Left Is Write]

3. Do you have ANY idea how many copies of that book you just sold today?

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4. Plus....now I need to go and buy something else 'cause....

...there's no way I'm gonna be able to read that on the plane tonight.

No way.

[Worst Username Ever]

5. Well. Just added to my book list. Thx!

[Beetwasher]

6. Why Can't You Read It On A Plane?

Is it because you might get a bit too, err, umm, excited and need to do something about it? :shrug:

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7. Yes, I'm afraid that my, um....

'tray' might get locked in it's upright position.

[Beetwasher]

9. LOL!

Have you no self control, sir! :evilgrin:

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10. Judging by what happened on the train this morning....

...apparently not!!!

:evilgrin:

[khashka]

8. Sounds like a nice train ride :)

Now however you need something from a woman's point of view... Anais Nin's Delta of Venus? Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty series? Susie Bright's story about Dan Quayle's dick?

Or just stick with Henry Miller... you can meet a lot of nice ladies on planes. Who knows, she might read it out loud to you.

Khash.

[XNASA]

11. Well, the plane will be Houston-bound......

So I'd say the chances of that happening are not too bad.

[khashka]

14. Well Mr. No Self Control

I suggest the Susie Bright story. If your "tray" gets locked in the upright position, you can whip it out (the story you dumbie, not your "tray", sheesh!) read the nice lady the passage about Dan Quayle going down (like no boy has ever gone down before) on Susie. Since the nice lady is going to Houston, I'm sure she'll appreciate that the hero is a conservative.

(Works every time I tell ya!)


Khash.

[noonwitch]

12. Anne Rice's "Sleeping Beauty" books are so perverse and sick

that I've read them all multiple times.

My uncle said that he always counted on Henry Miller's books to get him through his teen years in the days before Playboy.

[supernova]

13. If it weren't for Anaïs Nin

we wouldn't have Henry Miller.

She pretty much cajoled him into publishing his work.

Hooray for Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller! :woohoo: :woohoo: :applause: :applause:

[khashka]

16. Trust the girls

They know Anais Nin and Anne's porn :)

So ladies... any other really good female written female oriented dirty books? Im dying to know.

(and no, The Story Of O doesn't count! That's literature damn it!)

Khash.

[Lavender Brown]

20. Read bios of Edith Wharton

She's famous for her novels about prim New York society, but she actually wrote a lot of erotica. :o The stories were only discovered after she died, and some of them were destroyed by her shocked friends.

[redqueen]

15. hehehe

Great review.

So... did you have any, um, difficulties on the train?

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18. See reply #10.

:o

[nini]

17. Did it mention BOOBS?!?

:evilgrin:

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19. Shame on you!!!

Some of the nomenclature is kind of funny since most of it was written in the '30's. For example, Miller uses the word "bubs" a lot instead.

Weird huh?

[nini]

21. bubs eh?

I dont' think I'll ever forget your reaction to that amazon/boob thread LOL

I'm surprised the fundies haven't had this book banned and burned.

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22. I'm surprised I bought it off the shelf at Borders!!!!

:o