I've read zero. I'm borderline illiterate.

oh come on. portnoy's complaint, like most of philip roth, is sexual, but it's not sexy.

unless you consider masturbating into a slab of liver (that is later served to your family for dinner) sexy.

Well, since we're talking about sex, I'd say you're ill-iterate.

ps read lolita already. it's one of the few genuinely great books out there. hilarious, too.

Endless Love was one of the oddest things I ever had to read for a college class. I've read a handful of these books (Lolita, Tropic, Pornoy, etc.) and there aren't many that I care to read that I've missed.

If skimming for "good parts" counts, then you have finally posted a book list on which I've read as many entries as you. Huzzah! (And actually, my skimming of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles wasn't looking for sex scenes, just for anything I would enjoy. Reading at normal speed I lost interest pretty early.)

I am very happy that a member of the Oulipo made Playboy's "25 Sexiest Novels" list. And for that matter, Bataille!

I read Forever! I distinctly remember reading about getting an abortion and being disturbed and for some reason I know exactly where I was at that point. I think it was when I realized, "hey, this isn't like that other judy blume stuff I liked". I was really young and didn't really get what was going on with abortions and the like and I was kind of sickened. I don't remember it being especially sexy.

You don't find abortions sexy?

jon, do you still have a copy of SUADYA? you know, the one with the martini and toothpick?

Oddly enough I agree with JBG. Porntoy Complaint is about sex, but is definitely not sexy. Even the passage they put in there isn's sexy. Its funny, but also sort of gross.
I had never heard of Forever. No wonder my sister told me that Judy Blume book were banned. I have been looking for something new to read. I might have to check out Tropic... as the characters on Seinfeld read it. BTW: Interview with a Vampire taught me that living forever is really boring.

i don't think so. whatever you can get from archive.org...i once pulled everything from my school account off but i may have left that on my work account or my old computer hard drive. so there's a chance it's on a hard drive that's sat in the back seat of my car for 2 years or on a cd gathering dust in my bookshelf...i'm not too optimistic about recovery. i take it you're looking for the image, not the website contents, right? maybe dolder has it?

i don't remember the url. seas something, right?

Crash and Lady Chatterly's Lover were both pretty hot. That's the extent of my input. If Crash doesn't draw you in and do uncomfortably tangible things to you, you're kidding yourself. Reading it in public places only makes it better.

Story of the Eye is on my list, which means that hopefully I'll read it before I die. I really shouldn't be allowed to leave my room until I read Lolita.

The sexiest book I ever read was called Sandra at Your Service. It was a dirty book that I found in the woods in fourth grade. We read it during recess and it made me feel, uh, funny. Is there a group of people that used to go around the US seeding bushes and forests with porn? Do they lament the interenet for taking away their job?

It's actually worth something:

http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=394299860&searchurl...

Yeah, I remember a construction site near my old house that had porn near it in the woods. Don't remember how close the porn was the construction site. Did kids want to hide the stuff in the woods or rather near the construction site? Did the construction workers get bored by home construction and need to pull their puds in the nearby woods? I don't know. So far Anthony is the only other person that I have talked to about this phenomenon.

Thanks crazymonk. I seriously want to buy that book. Good find. I am going to look up other work by that author. He was good.

Rodenator: get Jon May to lend you Godel Escher Bach. I'm not going to get around to it in the next two weeks, and he should have the satisfaction of making someone read it.

When I was in high school, certain of my friends were big into Harlequin romance novels as titillation. There are plenty of "good bits" in those, and they are explicitly designed to titillate, unlike Lolita. Of course, you have to have a high cliche tolerance. (But I think regular porn is pretty cliched too.)

thanks, Lorelei, for reminding me of this story: this one time in junior high, i brought anne rice's book 'Exit to Eden', written under her pseudonym anne rampling, to lunch (to show off) - about this S&M fantasy island (i remember this one scene where there was heavily-oiled gay public wrestling, where the wrestlers got one point per penetration). i was giggling over this, perhaps even with liam, when this random english teacher walked past, and i tried to slide the book under my lunch tray, but only got halfway and of course attracted his attention. fortunately for me, he looked down and said, "'East of Eden?' That's nothing to be ashamed about! What a fabulous classic!" then patted me and moved on.
That was awesome. Anyway, that book should totally be on this list, due to its creative mix of food- and game-based sex scenes, detailed velvet clothing analysis, and seamless mix of gay and straight scenes. But I guess they wouldn't put two Anne Rices. That book is out of control.

Yeah, it had crazy sex scenes not too far removed from what I have read at alt.sex.stories, but I thought Exit to Eden kind of sucked as a book. And I really don't have high standards when it comes to books. I even believe the Da Vinci Code is nonfiction.