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The Fermata
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Mr. Morrison recommended I check this out after reading that "Killing Time" thing I wrote. And yeah, it's kind of exactly the same idea stretched to the length of a novel. Namely, what would you do if you could actually stop time (answer: take people's clothes off).
Except whereas I thought it would be funnier to just hint at the idea, Baker seemed to think it was funnier to go into pages and pages of graphic detail about the whole process. Maybe that is funnier, I dunno.
So it was interesting for the first two chapters, because we both came to similar conclusions about what being the only thing moving through time would be like, eventually I got sick of it because you can only read so many accounts of a guy masturbating on people and then congratulating himself on his ethical behaviour.
I guess this book kind of called my bluff.
p.s. Also featured in sexual encounters are the most ridiculous nicknames for rude bits. He actually uses the phrase "stain-stick". I guess I laughed a bit at that, but not in the good way.
Maybe I just haven't read enough erotica?
Except whereas I thought it would be funnier to just hint at the idea, Baker seemed to think it was funnier to go into pages and pages of graphic detail about the whole process. Maybe that is funnier, I dunno.
So it was interesting for the first two chapters, because we both came to similar conclusions about what being the only thing moving through time would be like, eventually I got sick of it because you can only read so many accounts of a guy masturbating on people and then congratulating himself on his ethical behaviour.
I guess this book kind of called my bluff.
p.s. Also featured in sexual encounters are the most ridiculous nicknames for rude bits. He actually uses the phrase "stain-stick". I guess I laughed a bit at that, but not in the good way.
Maybe I just haven't read enough erotica?
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February 1, 2008
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Maybe because I wasn't MEGA excited I couldn't be disappointed but I thought that this book was tremendously honest and very dirty-but in an uncliched, very non-cinemax heavy breathing sort of way. I suppose that not all men are fascinated by female sexuality, or at least not in the same manner and extent as Arno, but I know of no other book that addresses it (the curiosity) in such a frank, humane and direct way. I would actually compare this book to Sons and Lovers even. I highly recommend this book to anyone comfortable with the subject matter.
I don’t like the sound of this book at all. And as for the cover... Just as well though that we have different tastes in life...
And the thing about ridiculous nicknames reminds me of "Vox" by the same author (allegedly given to Bill Clinton by Monica Lewinsky you guys!!!) where I think the male character says he doesn't like to call breasts "breasts" and so suggests the new word "frands," which has stuck with me to this day as just the worst possible nickname for breasts. But maybe I'm thinking of another book, or another word.