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bipolarber -> RE: one handed books (4/6/2008 3:49:01 PM)
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Well, I think I'll defend Anne on this one. As one handed reading, Rice's "Beauty" trilogy is perfectly good, solid erotica. There is a story arc, and a definite beginning, middle and an end to the episodic action. It's not all just fluff (which is where I'd put most of Penthouse's publications) Yes, the trysting tends to get repedative. (Which is why Anne gave up on continuing the series- at least according to her official biography.) But I think it all in good fun, and certainly not deserving of the kind of dirision that some give them.
Way at the top, you have truly poetic works like "O" and "Venus in Furs."
Somewhere in the middle, you have Anne Rice, Pat Califia, the Marketplace series, and a host of others.
Down at the bottom, you have junk like Penthouse, novels by anonymous, Norman, the erotic novels of Ed Wood, and all the other crap that is printed in those awful little digest mags that you find in a dark, mouldering corner of your favorite adult bookstore next to the highway.
The difference between them are the same citeria you'd use when judging regular fiction: plot, character, text, subtext.
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