Date Posted:22:10:15 09/05/01 Wed Author: Adilbrand Subject: Erica Jong In reply to:
dreamerofdreams
's message, "Another Example" on 16:06:02 09/05/01 Wed
I have read some Erica Jong. I own one, actually: Fanny, Being the True History of the Adventures of Fanny Hackabout-Jones (1980), and I rather enjoyed that particular work of erotica. Her other works are also good.
The sample you gave is well-written, but a little too depressing for my tastes. Here is a sample of hers that runs more to my tastes: "Everyone is into oral sex, it seems. Everyone has discovered the clitoris. In the ten years since she took off from Bennett Wing and ran (briefly) away with Adrian Goodlove (then wrote a book about it that gave women everywhere permission to do the same), the world has certainly changed. For one thing, there is more oral sex. For another, more impotence. For a third, sex is ubiquitous and yet also somehow devoid of its full charge of mystery. For a fourth, the world is definitely lurching to its end." That is from Parachutes & Kisses, the sequel to her Fear of Flying, which is probably her most famous erotic book.
