Taming the Beast ((Erotica))

masterjoe42 · 06-06-2008, 03:47 PM

This is an erotica I picked up for a friends birthday tomorrow. I read it in the bookstore, and I recommended it.
Also, This is a 2-in-1 thread, since I'm too lazy to post a separate one about a small poem I wrote today while I was home with a Migraine.

.::STORY::.
Title: Taming the Beast
Author: Emily Maguire
"Powerfully Written...Shockingly Compelling"
-The Observer (London)

At the tender age of fourteen, Sarah Clark is seduced by her thirty-eight-year-old English Teacher, Daniel Carr, and becomes entangled in an illegal, erotic, passionate, and dangerous affair -- a vicious meeting of minds and bodies that ends badly.
Devastated by grief and longing, Sarah embarks upon a series of meaningless self-abasing sexual encounters, hoping to reclaim the intensity of that first relationship. Then, seven years later, Carr unexpectedly returns and Sarah is drawn again into a destructive coupling. Now that she is no longer an innocent young girl, is she strong enough to finally tame the beast within her?

From "the new bad girl of erotic fiction" (Esquire, UK) comes a raw debut novel of innocence and obsession that explores the nature of desire and love.

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My poem:

About it: This morning I woke up around 5:30, and I pulled up the shades and the massive "Rocky Horror Picture Show" wall hanger over my window to take a look of the view outside my window.
The sun was rising, and reflecting from the dew that rested on the leaves, shining orange and green off the leaves of the trees just outside my window into my window. On the screen, I saw a little Moth sitting on it, sleeping I believe.
I had a massive migraine, so I decided to not to go school today. I slept until Noon, keeping the wall hanger and shades rolled up to brighten my room with an emerald shade of green, sunlight peeking in through every spot they could get. When I awoke, the same moth was still there. So, since I've never written a poem before (maybe once or twice) I decided to give it a shot.

Name: Moth on my screen
Author: Masterjoe42

"Moth, Sitting upon my screen,
The day is Windy, you are quite Keen;
It is hour seven, yet you have not left,
Are you waiting for dinner? Or waiting for Death?"

**Fortunato** · 06-06-2008, 04:40 PM

Is erotica considered literature now?

masterjoe42 · 06-06-2008, 04:42 PM

erotica=book=literature.
I do believe so.

**Fortunato** · 06-06-2008, 04:48 PM

There's a big difference between books and literature. I can copy/paste a conversation with my friends on AIM, print it, and have it bound to make it a book. That doesn't mean it's literature.

And in my experience, most modern "erotica" is poorly written, borderline word porn. Classic "erotica" as an actual artistic genre is different, but the modern stuff is generally shit.

**Snakebite** · 06-06-2008, 04:50 PM

Bunnehs right.
Erotica is shit.

masterjoe42 · 06-06-2008, 04:51 PM

Since I never read, dad tried getting me into reading by making me read an erotica written in the 60's by a british prostitute. XD It was pretty epic.

Even if you didn't consider the erotica as literature, I put a poem in there as well, so yeah, this thread would still go into writer's haven.

**Simultaneous** · 06-06-2008, 04:57 PM

Aren't you, like, 13?
Since when can 13 year-olds buy erotica?

AND.
Right. For your friend.

masterjoe42 · 06-06-2008, 04:58 PM

o_o I'm 18 in November.
And yes, for a friend.
I've already read it once.

**Fortunato** · 06-06-2008, 06:56 PM

I wasn't going to move the thread. I just find it amusing that people consider erotica as literature.

Personally, I get kind of mad when I go to Barnes and Noble and see teenage vampire erotica on the same shelf as Kerouac, Palahniuk, and Vonnegut.

masterjoe42 · 06-06-2008, 08:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bunneh

I wasn't going to move the thread. I just find it amusing that people consider erotica as literature.

Personally, I get kind of mad when I go to Barnes and Noble and see teenage vampire erotica on the same shelf as Kerouac, Palahniuk, and Vonnegut.

I've never heard of any of those, but I'll take your word for it.
Personally, since I never read, if it's a book, I consider it literature. I don't care what kind of book it is.
Erotica, Popup, Picture, even Journal.
If it's got pages to flip with something on them, It's a book.
((Of course, that's just my opinion))