Book Description
On a mild midwestern night in the early 1940s, Johnny Marr leans against a drugstore wall. He’s waiting for Dorothy, his fiancée, and tonight is the last night they’ll be meeting here, for it’s May 31st, and June 1st marks their wedding day. But she’s late, and Johnny soon learns of a horrible accident—an accident involving a group of drunken men, a low-flying charter plane, and an empty liquor bottle. In one short moment Johnny loses all that matters to him and his life is shattered. He vows to take from these men exactly what they took from him. After years of planning, Johnny begins his quest for revenge, and on May 31st of each year—always on May 31st—wives, lovers, and daughters are suddenly no longer safe.
Customer Reviews:
Operatic, energetic, schematic.......2006-07-30
RENDEZVOUS IN BLACK, one of the final novels in Cornell Woolrich's famous "black" series that have formed the basis for so many films noirs, is one of his most highly praised works. It is enormously suspenseful: an anonymous young man whose fiancée has been killed in a freak accident instigated by a group of wealthy hunters in a low-flying plane takes his revenge by systematically murdering the woman most beloved to each of the five men so they can share in his grief. Each of the five murders occurs in a different chapter and told in a different style: we know that a woman is going to get it and when, but we don't know how and sometimes we don't even know who. Simultaneously, a police detetctive begins assembling clues to catch the killer. Certainly Woolrich can draw out the suspense in each chapter, and the schematic narrative (which often refers to the characters as "the man" or "the woman") invests the narrative with an almost allegorical quality that makes the whole work seem over-the-top. But there's very little character development in the text, and the shoddy ironic twists in several of the stories seem telegraphed a mile away. Also, the misogynistic undercurrent to most romans noirs seems queasily overemphasized here: except for the first victim (who dies the most gruesome of the deaths), each of the killer's targets intentionally defies the dictates of male authorities in her life, as if to suggest she deserves what's coming to her. Although on one hand this seems almost a pure distillation of the operatic fatalism of the roman noir, it's simply not as good a work as Woolrich's more fleshed-out books like WALTZ INTO DARKNESS or I MARRIED A DEAD MAN--not to mention such superior suspense novels of the period as (for example) Kenneth Fearing's THE BIG CLOCK or Elisabeth Sanxay Holding's THE BLANK WALL.
The Hitchcock of the Written Word.......2006-06-02
The introduction to this novel says that Woolrich has been described as the "Hitchcock of the Written Word," but adds that maybe he wouldn't have liked this description. It might be even more accurate to say that Hitchcock is the Cornell Woolrich of the cinema - since many of Woolrich's works came before Hitchcock's, and Hitch even adapted one of Woolrich's stories into one of his most famous movies, Rear Window.
The point, though, is that this guy writes suspense like you've never seen. I say "seen" because reading his novels is really a visceral experience. I don't know how he does it but Woolrich can write a beautiful, elegant story that you can sort of just almost SEE unfolding like a movie --- a movie that will move you emotionally and also scare the bejesus out of you.
Rendezvous in Black contains six interlinked stories about six doomed love affairs threatened by violence. Five of these are labelled "The First Rendezvous" through "The Fifth Rendezvous." The sixth is the story that ties them all together (but it comes first in sequence). I don't want to spoil the experience of reading this book for anyone, but overall it is just amazing and I cannot recommend it more highly. Woolrich, as has been noted here already, was a protege of F. Scott Fitzgerald's. Like Dashiell Hammett, he's an author who makes mysteries somehow as beautiful as what passes for "literature" - yet so emotionally gripping that you hardly notice till you are done how beautiful the craft of what you just read really was. The characters are spectacular and each one is described with wonderful psychological details. One of my favorites is this description of the police detective:
"He was too thin, and his face wore a chronically haggard look...His manner was a mixture of uncertainty, followed by flurries of hasty action, followed by more uncertainty, as if he already regretted the just preceding action. He always acted new at any given proceedings, as if he were undertaking them for the first time. Even when they were old, and he should have been used to them."
Little gems like this are on almost every page of this book and they make for a wonderful reading experience you won't forget.
I envy anyone about to read Cornell Woolrich for the first time. This book is a great place to start.
"Now you know what it feels like. So how do you like it?".......2006-05-31
On a mild midwestern night in the early 1940s, Johnny Marr leans against a drugstore wall. He's waiting for Dorothy, his fiancée, and tonight is the last night they'll be meeting here, for it's May 31st, and June 1st marks their wedding day. But she's late, and Johnny soon learns of a horrible accident - an accident involving a group of drunken men, a low-flying charter plane, and an empty liquor bottle. In one short moment Johnny loses all that matters to him and his life is shattered. He vows to take from these men exactly what they took from him. After years of planning, Johnny begins his quest for revenge, and on May 31st of each year - always on May 31st - wives, lovers, and daughters are suddenly no longer safe ... Cornell Woolrich's most justly famous novel is one of the true masterpieces of suspense. Johnny exacts his revenge in five meticulously planned and utterly unpredictable murders that Woolrich unfolds with an almost demonic fatalism while the marvellously unheroic police officer MacLain Cameron is in accelerating pursuit. Woolrich's prose is unique. His style is strongly visual - we'd now call it cinematic even though it prefigured much of the film-noir effects that render it, today, almost cliché. His syntax is occasionally tortured, his word choices odd. Yet as his biographer Francis Nevins has noted, Woolrich's imperfections are a happy marriage of form and function. Without the sentences rushing out of control across the page like his hunted characters across the nightscape, without the maniacal emotionalism and indifference to grammatical niceties, the form and content of the Woolrich world would be at odds. Between his style and substance, Woolrich achieved the perfect union. There are moments when the melodrama builds to such an intensity that it tumbles over into a kind of empathy, e.g. Cameron's late visit to Dorothy's childhood home. You know it's ridiculous, but you feel something all the same. As monstrous as Johnny Marr's revenge is, few readers will be able to damn him completely. This kind of amoral centre is the dark sun around which much of the noir world turns, and Woolrich gives us one of the genre's finest examples. The Modern Library's 20th Century Rediscoveries edition is particularly valuable for its Reading Group Guide, and for Richard Dooling's fine introduction which points to further reading and finds the origins of the novel in Woolrich's own startlingly sad biography. Strongly recommended.
Yes, a masterpiece!.......2005-02-19
This is a suspense story in which one knows the killer and his victims and where there is nothing random about his choice of victims. The murders are acts of revenge against an unpremeditated, accidental death - a death that one can only characterize as 'fateful.' A bottle has been thrown from an airplane, killing a young woman standing by a store window in a busy street. She is waiting for her fiance. Out of the hundreds of people walking that street, it is she who has been dealt this fatal blow. It is an accident that could not have been foreseen, though it can be argued, that its negligence might have been anticipated.
That is the beginning of the story. Woolrich wastes no time in setting the psychological tone. Her fiance arrives at their place of rendezvous, the scene of the accident, looks at the stricken woman, denies that it is his "Dorothy", then leaves the scene. Despite this initial denial, he knows, of course, that it is she, and from that moment a cataclysmic change occurs in his personality and his present world falls apart - a world of romance, marriage and well being. He sheds all innocence and becomes a man singularly possessed - a man seeking revenge against the carelessness of other men - determined to have them pay for this carelessness in the same way he has been forced to pay - destruction of what they prize most.
It is a story, wonderfully told - direct, gripping and so thoroughly credible that you read through it quickly, hoping against hope that it will have a happy ending. But it doesn't.
Titanic and soul shattering.......2004-08-20
How could anyone not love Cornell Woolrich? He ranks right up there with James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler as one of the godfathers of pitch-black noir. Unfortunately, Woolrich's voluminous short stories and his many novels for the most part remain out of print. No excuse exists to merit such blatant disrespect. Happily, several Woolrich works have begun to reemerge to the delight of noir fans. For example, Woolrich biographer and all around noir aficionado Frances M. Nevins edited a collection of fourteen delightfully bleak stories in the recent "Night & Fear." Now we have "Rendezvous in Black" thanks to the Modern Library publishing house. We can only hope that other novellas head to store shelves soon, specifically "The Bride Wore Black" and "Night Has A Thousand Eyes." But even more fascinating than his stories is the author's life. Cornell Woolrich lived from one black depression to another. He worshipped his mother, drank incessantly, and kept his true sexuality repressed. It was an overriding fear of his mortality and the cruel randomness of the world around him, however, which fueled his desolate visions. Sad to say, but Woolrich's miseries have given generations of fans something to sing about ever since.
"Rendezvous in Black" excels as an archetype of white knuckled, totter on the edge of your seat noir, a story even better than the author's phenomenal and oft copied "I Married a Dead Man." This yarn concerns the activities of one Johnny Marr, an ecstatic young man set to marry the love of his life. When his girl, Dorothy, perishes in a freak accident involving a bottle dropped from a low flying plane, Marr's sanity melts away. The desolate young lover discovers the names of five men who bear the blame for the tragedy that destroyed his life, and he promptly embarks on a mission to wreak bloody revenge on these strangers. Marr will go after the people these men love the most in life, using any tricks he can muster in an effort to avenge his shattered life. Woolrich makes sure the reader understands exactly how far gone Marr is in the first chapter, as we see the young man continue to turn up at the couple's favorite meeting place night after night, waiting desperately for a woman who will never show up. Marr's activities assume a mindless repetition, an unremitting yet senseless hope that Dorothy will eventually appear, thus setting the tone for his single minded, relentless revenge plots later on.
A rendezvous for each of Marr's enemies, five in all, unfold with cold, methodical precision. The first rendezvous achieves the least suspense of the five, a short chapter serving as a post-mortem of Marr's first act of revenge. It is here we learn how Marr will attack his enemies (through important women in their lives), and meet the cop, Detective Cameron, who takes on the case. The second rendezvous will set your nerves on edge as an illicit affair leads to disastrous consequences, including a vengeance seeking wife and a walk to the electric chair, for the second man on Johnny's list. In the third rendezvous, a wedge driven between a man and his wife results in a murder and a suicide. As the fourth act unfolds, a conceited, secretive daughter discovers the hard way that she should have listened to Detective Cameron and her parents. The denouement, the fifth rendezvous, involves that last man on the list and his childhood love. It also tries to show that nothing, neither running to the ends of the earth nor the best laid plans, will deter fate. If you feel like you've been chewed up and spit out by the time you reach the end of the book, don't fret. This reaction is normal when reading Cornell Woolrich. It is, in fact, exactly what you want to feel.
The strength of "Rendezvous in Black" comes not from its staccato prose and descriptive metaphors, although these elements do play a large part in the success of the novel, but in Woolrich's bleak cosmology built on an unholy trinity of love turned bad, paranoia, and crushing fate. The accident that claims Dorothy, a bottle falling from the heavens, and the subsequent disasters visited upon those individuals Marr deems responsible, displays the writer's belief in a unsystematic, frequently cruel world where events unfold with ruthless certainty. Love is a good thing, or can be a good thing, but too often it morphs into something that can fuel neverending hostility and destruction. Richard Dooling, the author of the introduction to this edition of the novel, does an excellent job explicating the numerous themes in Woolrich's writings, a better job than I could possibly hope to do in a short review. But you don't need really need an introduction to see that the mindset behind the book is seriously depressing.
The number of continuity errors, implausible events, and other mistakes in "Rendezvous in Black" leap off the page. I find it impossible to believe someone could drop a bottle out of an airplane as late the 1940s, for example. Too, I kept wondering whether Johnny Marr ever aged, as a considerable period of time passes from Dorothy's demise to the end of the book. How could Johnny possibly have wooed the teenaged Madeleine if he was in his late twenties? And considering Woolrich describes Detective Cameron as a bumbler, the cop possesses a tenacity that eventually pays off in the end. None of these problems takes anything away from the sheer power of the novel. There were times I literally felt like I couldn't stand the tension anymore, and any book that can cause that sort of sensation deserves attention. If you love noir, you need to read this one immediately.
Average customer rating:
|
BLACK DIAMOND RENDEZVOUS
Manufacturer: Leisure
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HQZVFQ |
Average customer rating:
|
Black Diamond Rendezvous
John D. Nesbitt
Manufacturer: Leisure Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
 Contemporary
| General
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
General
| Westerns
| Genre Fiction
| Literature & Fiction
| Subjects
| Books
ASIN: 0843943882 |
Product Description
7.4" * 5.3". Cloth hardcover. Three novels in one.
Average customer rating:
|
Rendezvous in Black
Manufacturer: Ace
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HBIYCS |
Product Description
Paperback Ace H series mystery
Book Description
Today, oral sex has become an integral part of the whole lovemaking. However, cunnilingus is one of the most difficult sexual acts to perform successfully. It takes refined skills, essential techniques and exercises which you can learn from the "Master's Guide to Cunnilingus". Presented in a lively, informative text and easy-to-master instructions, this book will help you to take your partner to new heights of pleasure.
Inside you'll find:
- The Anatomy of Female Sexual Arousal
- Sensual Kissing, Erotic Massages, Talking and Fantasies
- The G-Spot, the A-Spot and the Clit - an Orgasmic Combo
- Advanced Tongue Techniques and Exercises
- Golden Fingers and The Double Pleasure Clamp Rules
- Innovate Oral Sex Positions to Make Her Squirt
- The Worst Cunnilingus Mistakes
- Tips, Curious Facts, Practices, Safe Oral Sex and many more.
When a woman finds a man who gives good head, she's found a treasure!
Customer Reviews:
Excellent suggestions!!!!.......2007-09-10
This book is written with a tenderness that is lacking in other books on the subject.
This guide is complete and comprehensive. It breaks down each and every topic into language that the reader can easily understand. So many questions about cunnilingus that you may be too shy to ask, but have always wondered about, and this book answers them! It is an absolute must read for men of all ages. And it is a book that you never stop reading.
It is a definite recommendation for any man who is looking for an updated guide on sexuality and health.
Decent, but Nothing Special.......2007-09-10
You'd think after reading all the 5 star reviews on this book, that it would have amazing secrets that you couldn't find anywhere else. The reality is that all the oral sex books have pretty much the same information, which when you think about it shouldn't be all that surprising. This book is decent, but certainly nothing special. I think you can get better value for your money elsewhere.
Finally A Real Master of Cunnilingus!.......2007-08-17
Thank God someone finally wrote a book about how to do cunnilingus right. It has made me a much better man when it comes to the oral sex. I dont know what i would do without this book. I have recomended it to all my friends and they can't wait to get it.
THE INFORMATION IS THERE, BUT...........2007-04-04
The information is there and can be helpful, but it's sometimes hard to decypher, what with all the typos and grammatical errors. If this book had been properly edited, even by someone with a fifth grade education, it could have been condensed to half its length and still contain all the essential information.
Truly Helpful!.......2007-01-31
This is the kind of advice women want you to know. Everything that you have always wanted to know on how to properly satisfy her can be found in this fantastic book!
From knowing how to give her the best oral sex, to giving her multiple orgasms, this book is a must read!
This is no definitive guide by any means but truly helpful!
Average customer rating:
- Humorous Romp Through Time
- Cute, but...
- i want my money back.....
- Review Pleasure Master
- One of the funniest time travel romances!!!
|
The Pleasure Master
Nina Bangs
Manufacturer: Love Spell
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost | Romance | Subjects | Books
General | Romance | Subjects | Books
Time Travel | Romance | Subjects | Books
Gothic | Romance | Subjects | Books
Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost | Romance | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books
General | Romance | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books
Time Travel | Romance | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books
All 4-for-3 Deals | 4-for-3 Books Store | Stores | Books
Similar Items:
-
Master of Ecstasy (Mackenzie Vampires, Book 1)
-
Night Games
-
Night Bites (Mackenzie Vampires, Book 2)
-
Wicked Nights
-
An Original Sin (Wink & a Kiss, 3)
ASIN: 0505524457 |
Book Description
A very special man is now available.
The Pleasure Master. A man who knows the secrets of a woman's body, who can bring her sensual joy and fulfill her deepest sexual fantasies. Is there a woman alive who wouldn't want to meet him?
Check New York hairdresser Kathy Bartlett off your list. She has enough problems with a rotten ex-husband and a car that's stranded her. Men and cars. Both overheat at the wrong time. She needs a vacation somewhere warm and peaceful, with only subservient males.
Whoever is in charge of wish fulfillment doesn't listen well, because Kathy is suddenly flung back to 1542 Scotland. It's cold, definitely not peaceful, with nary a subservient male in sight. There's only Ian Ross, the Pleasure Master.
Ian's brothers demand that he prove his sexual power by seducing a woman no other man can seduce. Who better than Kathy? She has nothing but contempt for Ian Ross, and as Ian's brothers have discovered, any attempt to woo the lass could put a man's most precious body parts in grievous danger.
Ian accepts the challenge, confident he can seduce any woman, then leave her with his emotions untouched. Kathy remains determined to resist the explosive attraction she feels for Ian. Love won't be denied, but time is an impatient enemy.
Customer Reviews:
Humorous Romp Through Time.......2006-09-19
This is a very humorous time traveling romp from the very modern New York hair stylist's not so wonderful divorced life, to the sexy lair of a 1542 Scotsman. This is a historical time travel like none I have ever encountered. It is different because the author does not waste time trying to develop a good explanation for the time travel nor the fact that a working cell phone in 1542 plays a very humorous part in the story. The reader is simply asked to go along for the ride and if you can suspend your disbelief the author, Nina Bangs, does deliver a "bang" for your buck! (I apologize for the last statement, I couldn't resist).
This is the first book by Nina Bangs that I have read. This was an early book of hers, and almost all of her books appear to have paranormal aspects. This is why there is no attempt at a more "scientific" explanation for the time travel. Her later books, from what I have read, are more about vampires and ware wolfs with a twist, I am looking forward to trying them too.
I enjoyed this book and plan to read more of her work. I liked the sexual tension that the author builds skillfully, and the characters, though eccentric were endearing. Peter, a talking toy robot, the source of Kathy of Hair's time travel, is both humorous and not a little creepy. The cell phone exchanges between Kathy's hardened New York divorce attorney and the Neanderthal brother of the Pleasure master were laugh out loud (enabling me to forget the obvious problem I would normally have with a working cell phone in the highlands of Scotland, much less the 16th century).
I would have liked to see more description of Scotland and the political aspects of the time. More details on how a modern women would deal with the inconveniences during that time period would have been interesting, and yes slightly more sex (there is not as much as the cover would have you believe). Perhaps to add to the books many humorous movie quotes "a little less talk and a little more action".
Still I would recommend this book to a person wanting to spend a rainy afternoon with a good read. If you like Scotsman, sexual tension, and time travel, do what I did, lie back and let the Pleasure Master have its way with you.
Cute, but..........2006-06-18
Bought the book when I saw the cover...interesting. The story was OK and I enjoyed it once I got into it, but there were so many unbelievable things that wouldn't really happen in time travel, like Kathy's phone working in 1542. Kathy appeared a little ditsy in the first part of the book. Loved the way Peter would always use movie quotes throughout the story and Ian's cat was an interesting character. The biggest disappointment to me was the ending...felt like it was a cop-out. It left me hanging on what happened to Ian. The author should have gone into detail about what Ian experienced at the end.
i want my money back............2006-03-19
this book is a complete waste of money, though not too much time, as i only read the first 60 pages when i finally dumped it. if you are not a teenager, save your money. the story is so stupid, it reminds me of reading a kid's short story. i love time travel, but there is a lot of garbage out there, and this tops the list. unbelievable characters with no depth, the cell phone works in the year 1542, and the hero is supposed to be a sex expert who's sole job is pleasing all women? gag me with a spoon. this should come with suggested reading ages.
Review Pleasure Master.......2006-03-10
It was an enjoyable book. I've liked some of Nina Bangs other books better. The time travel element was greatly entertaining and wouldn't you just know, Ganymeade has a part in it.
One of the funniest time travel romances!!!.......2005-03-08
It's been a while since I read this novel, but it has stuck in my mind. Loved the plot, loved the characters, and loved the fact that somehow Bangs made me believe in the fact that even though the heroine traveled back in time, she could still use her cell phone. If you love timetravel romances, this is one that you should not pass up.
Book Description
He haunted her dreams. She haunted his nightmares.
She betrayed him at the altar and her father sold him into slavery.
Kidnapping her was only the beginning of his revenge.
Customer Reviews:
Above average.......2007-04-30
I just read this book last night and I really liked it (I finished it in one reading). The characters are fun, the story is romantic and their are some good erotic parts. All in all, I think it was pretty good and worth reading. It's not the best I've ever read but its definitely above average (I read 3 to 4 books every week). I don't understand the bad reviews here. If you like romance, you'll like this book.
Great Cover - Strong Characters -.......2007-03-20
Master Of Pleasure by Jessica Trapp is a 1470 romance novel. Meiriona is engaged to Godric but her father sells him into slavery. He returns and kidnaps Meiriona - lots of great tests of will. Overall a good romance but not my favoriate time period.
I loved this book! .......2006-06-26
Full of intrigue and adventure it draws you into the time period with strong characters and vivid descriptions. Betrayed at the altar, Godric is sold into slavery by Meiriona's father, who refuses to allow his daughter to marry a Yorkist. Five year's later, Godric returns, determined to seek revenge and claim what is rightfully his. He kidnaps Meiriona and the adventures begin. I especially enjoyed the `Lady Godiva' type scene, when Meiriona defies Godric and walks through the courtyard, adorned only by her beautiful, long hair.
Say what again? 4 stars - I think not!.......2006-04-08
When you purchase a book titled MASTER OF PLEASURE, you expect a pretty riveting read, to say the least...this book is not. It's not even very romantic.
It's not that it's badly written -- it's a very readable book -- but it's so -- mediocre. There is nothing particularly original about this story (the author's first). There are flashes of interesting dialog, such as when the hero says he thinks he was thrown away by God, or when the heroine thinks that her sexual feelings for the hero are wicked. But these flashes of originality are just not followed up. The romance is pretty standard fare; if you've read a great many romances, you'll be finding some familiar scenarios and characters.
The author had a great opportunity, given the hero's history of enslavement in a Turkish harem, to give her "woo-hoo" scenes some unique "umph", but this is never built upon. (You're told the hero was a sex slave, and later we learn that he brought back some toys, and that's it. He does use the toys on the heroine, in their one & only sex scene, but in what I can only call a blase sort of way. Emma Holly, this isn't!)
As a revenge plot, the story never took off either. The hero kidnaps the heroine, in revenge for the enslavement he experienced thanks to her father's machinations -- but her family is, like, OK with the fact that she's kidnapped -- there's no effort to get her back! Even when her little brother follows her, no one from her family (including her husband?) gives enough of a damn to send out a negotiator?
Even the time period isn't well utilized. It's set in the Wars of the Roses, but it might just as well have been William the Conqueror's time, or any medieval period, for all this exciting historical period is brought forward.
And there was definitely something weird about the heroine's husband (her uncle, no less) who keeps saying at the end, "I loved you" -- about the heroine's FATHER. Just a tad yucky there!
As a freshman romance writing effort, it's not all bad, but I think the author needs to develop her own voice. I kept thinking she was making the mistake of reading other writer's romances while trying to write this -- because it all seemed so familiar.
What a Pleasure to read.......2006-02-19
Jessica Trapp has produced a sensual, riveting novel full of intrique,, revenge and love.
On what he thought would be his wedding day, Godric instead finds himself taken captive and sold into slavery. He spends the next five years as a sex slave to a sheik's daughter. After fathering her child, he and the baby are set free and he is off to seek his revenge.
On what is supposed to be her second wedding day, Lady Meiriona finds herself taken captive and carted off to Godric's home.
Will these two star-crossed lovers overcome the pain of the past to find happiness? Of course! But Ms. Trapp sets up fun and sensual bumps in the road for them along the way.
Book Description
Training To Pleasure By Julian Masters
Kate is hard working, successful, responsible and smart—yet something is missing from her life. The men she dates quickly bore her in and out of bed. A girlfriend loans Kate an erotic novel of dominance and submission that ignites a firestorm of longing and desire she cannot ignore. Perhaps she has been looking for the wrong type of man in all the wrong places her whole life?
Kate goes in search online, learning all she can about her need to surrender her heart and body to a truly masterful man. A chance encounter in a chat room leads to her eventually meeting James at a beautiful English country house and spending an exquisitely erotic week together that will change both their lives forever.
Download Description
Kate is hard working, successful, responsible and smart-yet something is missing from her life. The men she dates quickly bore her in and out of bed. A girlfriend loans Kate an erotic novel of dominance and submission that ignites a firestorm of longing and desire she cannot ignore. Perhaps she has been looking for the wrong type of man in all the wrong places her whole life? Kate goes in search online, learning all she can about her need to surrender her heart and body to a truly masterful man. A chance encounter in a chat room leads to her eventually meeting James at a beautiful English country house and spending an exquisitely erotic week together that will change both their lives forever. Note: This story was previously released in 2003 under author name Sir Julian. It has been revised and extensively expanded.
Customer Reviews:
Lifeless!.......2007-08-21
I bought this book based on the glowing reviews from other customers and was highly disappointed. The story was utterly boring and the characters passionless. I am a voracious reader and this is truly the only time I can recall feeling completely indifferent about both main characters, I mean usually I at least connect with and like one of them!
The romance in this book was nonexistent, just a lot of boring talk about the psychology behind the main characters need to be a submissive. I am a fan of erotic romance and have enjoyed books similarly themed to this one in the past but this one just fell flat. I would recommend spending your hard earned $13 dollars on a different book.
Incredibly erotic and wildly romantic - with lots of kiny sex!.......2005-08-12
This story has all the elements I look for in romantic-erotic fiction: The characters are complex, intelligent and absorbing, the writing vivid and sensual, the unfolding storyline compelling. Though it is as kinky and sexy as anyone could possibly wish, the context in which these wild sexual adventures occur is romantic, loving and tender. Unusually provocative and informative for this genre, Julian Masters takes the reader on a journey into the darker side of human sexuality - revealing the courage it takes to explore our deepest desires.
I could not help comparing this story to the S&M classic "Story of O", though they are very different books. Where Pauline Reage's O is manipulated by aloof, domineering men who are essentially afraid to love her; in Kate, Julian Masters gives us a submissive heroine we can respect and admire. Kate makes informed choices and she surrenders her body, heart and mind from a place of trust and mutual understanding.
Every scene, no matter how shocking, has a purpose, as James guides Kate through successive submissive experiences that only ever enhance her self-esteem. Kate is trained to pleasure as she gradually loses her inhibitions and learns to trust James ever more deeply - surprisingly we realise that the pleasure James trains her to surrender to is her own!
Anyone considering exploring their submissive desires should read this book, but even more I recommend it wholeheartedly to those who would be dominant! In James we at last have a dominant character who combines authority and virility with sensitivity and passion - a man who demands obedience but who is at the same time a generous and tender lover.
A very sensual, pleasurable and erotic romance!
TRAINING TO PLEASURE.......2005-04-16
THIS IS WITHOUT A DOUBT THE BEST OF THESE I HAVE EVER READ. I WAS BLOWN AWAY..
Average customer rating:
|
Hidden Bedroom Partners: Needs and Motives That Destroy Sexual Pleasure (The Master Work Series)
Frank Hajcak , and
Patricia Garwood
Manufacturer: Jason Aronson
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
General | Self-Help | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
General | Sex | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
General | Psychology & Counseling | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
Psychoanalysis | Psychology & Counseling | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
General | Sexuality | Psychology & Counseling | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
Psychology of Sexuality | Sexuality | Psychology & Counseling | Health, Mind & Body | Subjects | Books
General | Gender Studies | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
General | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
Culture | Sociology | Social Sciences | Nonfiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 1568217218 |
Customer Reviews:
BOOK DESCRIPTION.......2002-06-19
HIDDEN BEDROOM PARTNERS: NEEDS AND MOTIVES THAT DESTROY SEXUAL PLEASURE
There is a new and dangerous phenomenon creeping into the modern bedroom. Millions of couples are having sex when they really want and need something else--affection, intimacy, reassurance, revenge, escape from boredom or to express anger. The authors have coined the term "nonsexual sex" to describe this practice of using sex as a vehicle to express or satisfy emotional needs that should be kept out of the bedroom.
Most couples are not aware that they are using sex in this way, and the danger is that sex can never satisfy nonsexual needs. Thus, the couple is left feeling frustrated, unfulfilled or that something is wrong or missing in their sex lives. They think they have a sex problem or that sex is not all it is supposed to be. In fact, it is not, and the authors present convincing arguments that sexual satisfaction can be increased a hundredfold in most relationships.
This book is a guide for discovering "sexual sex"--intense, pleasurable sex, free of hidden emotional needs. Each chapter describes one of these needs, its whys, wherefores and deleterious effects. Exercises, homework assignments, preventive measures, and other solutions are suggested for correcting the problem or improving an already good relationship. The authors also tell us, in fascinating detail, how we have learned to misuse sex and why we continue to do so.
Average customer rating:
|
HER MASTER'S PLEASURE
Manufacturer: Avon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000HQXIPQ |
Average customer rating:
|
Her Master's Pleasure
Manufacturer: Avon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: 0380442140 |
Books:
- Repeat After Me
- Riddley Walker
- River, Cross My Heart (Oprah's Book Club)
- Robert Ludlum's The Altman Code: A Covert-One Novel
- Sherbrooke Twins, The (Bride)
- Slow Kill (Kevin Kerney Novels)
- Snow in August
- Spindle's End
- Stealing Faces
- Stern Men
Books Index
Books Home
Recommended Books
- Isaac's Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
- Celtic Dragon Tarot Kit
- The Gas Station in America
- Under the Skin: A Novel
- Y: The Last Man Vol. 8: Kimono Dragons
- Bioinformatics: A Practical Guide to the Analysis of Genes and Proteins
- Angelina Jolie: Angel in Disguise
- Distant Shores: The Odyssey of Rockwell Kent
- What Am I Going to Do With Myself When I Die
- Wild Flora of the Northeast
Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Manhattan Love Song
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (Midnight Classics)
Fright (Hard Case Crime)
Shoot the Piano Player
