Lucky most of those are really absorbing reads, so they just slip by. Oddly enough, I've only got about 50 pages left on Lady Chatterly...
Oh, and you should add 'The Left Hand of Darkness' by Ursula K. LeGuin. I think you'd really enjoy it. If you're not familiar with it, it posits a world that is gendered only during mating cycles, every individual capable of either sexual capacity, depending on their own cycle. Then, for funsies, it adds a normal human and some cloak-and-danger diplomacy.
Definitely not. XDDD One of my favorite books though, if only for the hilarity of it. I think the most surprising part of all was the language, which might not have been as bad back then as it is now, interestingly enough.
Now that I'm done fulfilling all the specific credits I nee to graduate and I'm only in need of general credit hours, I'm hoping to get lots of reading done too. :3 The Last Unicorn is a GREAT book. I had a lot of fun reading it. I'd recommend reading Persuasion before Pride and Prejudice... PP was really dry for me; I wasn't used to Austen's voice and had to reread sentences a lot. Persuasion seems to flow better and is such a suspenseful read if you're all about gossip. She's like the Jane Green of the past!
Nice list! ... if a little pervier than I expected from you. :D Have you started the Kushiel books yet? The first three are better than the last three, IMO. Now I'm going to have to go back and re-read some of these, dangit.
I don't see your list as pervy at all. Lady Chatterly is primarily about sexual desire being part and parcel of a true natural life, as opposed to the soul-sucking of modern industrialization.
Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) is full of descriptions of sex in quite poetical language, and is basically one man's celebration of feminine sexuality. At least what he wishes it was.
And Lolita is primarily about man's ability to twist meanings from anything, and the danger of thwarted and obsessive sexuality.
Um... 1984 has sex in it too, but it's also more along the naturalist vein.
LMAO. XD Yeah, that's pretty much how I understood my reading list to be. XD Even the ones I haven't read yet, just from what I've heard about them from other people.
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Oh, and you should add 'The Left Hand of Darkness' by Ursula K. LeGuin. I think you'd really enjoy it. If you're not familiar with it, it posits a world that is gendered only during mating cycles, every individual capable of either sexual capacity, depending on their own cycle. Then, for funsies, it adds a normal human and some cloak-and-danger diplomacy.
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How are you finding Lady Chatterley?
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And I'm finally going to get around to reading the book you got me two Christmases ago! :D
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Haven't started the Kushiel books yet. Might get to those around March or so. :)
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Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) is full of descriptions of sex in quite poetical language, and is basically one man's celebration of feminine sexuality. At least what he wishes it was.
And Lolita is primarily about man's ability to twist meanings from anything, and the danger of thwarted and obsessive sexuality.
Um... 1984 has sex in it too, but it's also more along the naturalist vein.
.... It's official, I'm a geek and a book addict.
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