Petruchio -> RE: Good D/s books (1/27/2009 7:48:19 AM)
If you can find it, Thalia Leigh's Diary of a Bad Housewife is both literate and hot. It's set in the UK. She has another set in NYC, but I can't remember the title.
Unfortunately, her publisher folded and I can't find her books. She tends to write about defiant subs who become tamed.
auburnvixen -> RE: Good D/s books (1/27/2009 8:21:10 PM)
Best one I have ever read (and I have devoured a lot of them) is Master/slave, which is a collection of short stories edited by N.T. Morley. Half the book has stories written from the Top's POV, and the other half is from the bottom's. Intensely hot.
Carol Queen's The Leather Daddy and the Femme is also incredible, even for us straight peeps.
SassySarijane -> RE: Good D/s books (1/27/2009 8:36:36 PM)
OP another you might want to check out, but may have some trouble finding, is called Dreaming in Color which is a hardcover, special edition, anthology of erotic stories written by Greenery Press authors such as Jay Wiseman, Jack Rinella, Dossie Easton, John Warren, and quite a few others. I was lucky enough to be able to get the copy I have from one of the authors.
DominaSmartass -> RE: Good D/s books (1/28/2009 10:56:59 AM)
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Carol Queen's The Leather Daddy and the Femme is also incredible, even for us straight peeps.
I'm reading this right now and it is wonderful. My highest endorsement as well.
CreativeDominant -> RE: Good D/s books (1/28/2009 12:12:39 PM)
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Thanks for writing about Linda L Miller. Years ago she did business with me. I had no idea who she was. She sent me a thank you with one of her books. It must have been one of the two you enjoy. I thought it was wonderfully hot and have smiled every time since when I see her books in the supermarket. I would love to know the title of the other one you enjoy. Funny too, I have never read anyone else mention this hugely bestselling romance writer as an evocative bdsmer. I thought it was all in my imagination, because Miller is so mainstream. Thanks also for pointing up this genre of dominant guy/rebellious woman. I had never thought of it in romance novels, because I do not read them much, though it has a pretty rich history in Hollywood movies- Hepburn and Stanwyck screwball comedies and John Ford/Wayne westerns (especially Mcclintock) will be very enjoyable to you if you do not already know them. What an interesting subject - I can hardly wait to reread TAMING OF THE SHREW too now.
I'm glad you mentioned the John Wayne picture "McClintock". One of my faves for the interaction between John and Maureen O'Hara all the way through up to the spanking. Love the bit where, after John gets done spanking her, he hands the fire shovel to his future son-in-law and says "Keep it...you'll NEED it". The look on a young Stephanie Hunter's face is priceless. Two other of John Wayne's movies the OP might enjoy are "The Quiet Man", again with Maureen O'Hara and "Donovan's Reef" with Elizabeth Allen. The scene in The Quiet Man where he drags Maureen alllllllllll over the hills of Ireland is great and there are other snippets of suggestion in there as to what a man should do with a recalcitrant partner. In Donovan's Reef, the capper comes when he finally pulls E. Allen over his knee in public and just whales on her ass.