Reddit reviews The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy Box Set: The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty; Beauty's Punishment; Beauty's Release

> the Kushiel saga

Yes!!!!

and honestly ladies if you want to read a kinky trilogy [sleeping beauty] (http://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Beauty-Trilogy-Box-Set/dp/0452294754/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1376431269&sr=8-2&keywords=the+claiming+of+sleeping+beauty)

Anne Rice wrote under the pen name A. N. Roquelaure called The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty it could explain the vampire connection?

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This trilogy is a classic one hand read. I've had them in one form or another for ten years, and they still work. :)

Though the majority of it is straight material, The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy isn't bad. There are a few good lesbian scenes sprinkled throughout the series to keep us interested, but far more straight and gay male scenes. I will not lie and tell you that during the straight scenes - most, not all - I looked at each situation through the eyes of the dommes, be they male or female, and didn't just associate with the female lead. It's VERY deep into the BDSM lifestyle, involving a great deal of humiliation and public degradation - which I'm not into; our BDSM stays private, intimate, a subtle rippling just below the surface meant to produce an almost secret response, something that is only noted by your instincts, we're reduced to animals sensing pheromones and reacting to those - so take that with a grain of salt.

I'm still looking for a good lesbian domme/sub story that actually piques my interest and is something with which I can relate; maybe I'll just write my own, until then I'll keep you updated if I find anything worthwhile :)

There is a lot of crap erotica out there, for sure. Finding good ones are hit or miss.

I tried a regency romance once. Super cheesy and cliche. Not for me.

I like Literotica because there are lots of stories to browse. There good stories and there are a lot of bad stories. Sometimes I will open a story, read a paragraph or two, and go right back to searching for a new one.

I've been trying to find good erotica books and series. Every other book is a Shades of grey clone. There are times in most of them where I end up rolling my eyes at some of the dialogue and descriptions. Sometimes, I will skip over parts if I'm just not into it.

A lot of erotica on Amazon for the kindle is free. It will often be the first book in a series to try to convince you to continue reading the rest. I read lots of these free ones and if I like the author/style then I will consider reading more. I haven't found any I like enough yet but I keep trying. Sometimes I can read enough of a bad erotica to do the trick. There are definitely some that I just quit reading.

Not erotica but I will also /r/gonewildstories. Nothing like stories that can actually happen.

The best erotica I have read is the Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A. N. Roquelaure, which is a pseudonym for for Anne Rice. But be warned, this is very, very heavy BDSM. It might be too much for many and at times it was a little heavy for me and I consider myself to be relatively kinky.

The best romance novel I have read was Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. It is a time-travel, historical romance to be exact. From what I remember it was actually a pretty good read. If you are going to read a romance, I think this is a good one to start with.

Though not erotica, Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey is a fantasy novel with some romance/erotic elements. I read it several years ago before my libido bottomed out but I'm pretty sure it turned me on. Interesting read as well. Definitely has a theme of sado-masochism, but compared to the Sleeping Beauty Trilogy it is nothing. If you already enjoy fantasy novels you should give it a go.

Hope that helps. You really have to dig to find anything good. That being said, often the act of searching alone is enough to get my engines revving.

Anne Rampling

I think you might enjoy these books. Seems to be right up your alley.

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Sleeping Beauty, by Anne Rice - formerly written under the pen-name of A. N. Roquelaure.

The Marketplace, by Laura Antoniou.

Possibly The Story of O, by Pauline Reage. It's kind of a classic, but I didn't care for it much. It's a lot more about the headspace of the slave than kinky shenanigans.

There's also the movie Secretary with a very young James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal. It's pretty tame but makes a good starting point to gauge the reaction of a potential partner.

Here's my list of standard recommendations:

Yellow Silk, a compilation of stories from a now-defunct erotica magazine.

Delta of Venus, stories by Anaïs Nin. (The story goes that she and Henry Miller and some of their friends were paid by the page to write erotic stories for a private collector.)

The nice thing about the two collections above (and short story collections in general) is that there are a variety of topics. It's a good way to figure out what your wife might like.

And I second the recommendation for the Sleeping Beauty series—these might be too kinky for your wife, though. Not vanilla at all, by any stretch of the imagination.

the scenario does, not the writing. a good spell check will help

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