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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.01083538 EAN: 9780452273986 ISBN: 0452273986 Label: Plume Manufacturer: Plume Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: June 01, 1995 Publisher: Plume Studio: Plume Accessories:  see moreRelated Items:      see moreAverage Rating:
 Rating:  - Terrific AnthologyI bought this when I looked at the index and saw one of the authors is Tee A. Corinne who truly knows how to deliver a story. This is a Keeper! I found the following information on the book - From Publishers Weekly What do women want sexually? Here 21 women writers, some pseudonymous, spin a variety of candid erotic fantasies in an attempt to answer the question with a turn-on for every taste and circumstance. One of the most imaginative, "The House of the Twin Jewels," describes a futuristic brothel for female patrons. "A Japanese Play" features group sex for money while the camera rolls. "The Scavenger Hunt" and "Humming" celebrate lesbian love, the latter affording a healing experience for one partner, her "aging body wracked these days with the storms of menopause." In "Fearful Symmetry" the handicapped male lover has a prosthetic arm. "Cradles of Light" mingles autoerotic enjoyments with memories of the past. Clinical therapist Barbach has written and edited several volumes (including the nonfiction Pleasures: Women Write Erotica designed to help women fulfill their sensual potential. Her introductory comments to this book stress the need for affirmation, tenderness and mystery. Unhappily, many of the stories suffer from awkwardly sentimental and amateurish writing. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club alternates. Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From the book - 21 erotic short stories by women, for women. "In this intense exploration of seduction, romance, and erotic fantasy, Lonnie Barbach has collected 21 tales that stimulate the mind as well-as the .body. These graphic stories, filled with the unexpected and forbidden, brilliantly capture the myriad layers, colors, and visions of every woman's sexuality. These stories - by and about women, young and old, married and single, heterosexual and lesbian - involve mysterious partners, racy games, risqué encounters, and more. The result is a classic work of passion that can be used as a starting point for shared intimacies or as a pleasure experienced alone." Rating:  - Some excellent stories in this volume.People don't change, sex doesn't change. Writing about sex doesn't change much, either. Originally published in 1986, this volume of short stories ages fairly well, I think. What it's lost in bite is still made up for with flavor. These stories are not as edgy as they were back in '86, but they are still good stories. Some real gems appear here. Valerie Kelly's "Berlioz and the Ghetto Blaster" takes a genre sex-fantasy staple - the hunky handyman - and renders it with such reality and connection that it becomes fresh again, and one of the hottest pieces in the book. Gayle Feyrer turns to science fiction/fantasy for "The House of the Twin Jewels," an intense and marvelously evoked depiction of lust and beauty as an alien woman falls for a male pleasure-slave. The beautifully-written and painstakingly-evoked "Birthing," by Doraine Poretz, really got to me on a fundamental level, as did Rebecca Silver's "Fearful Symmetry." Sandy Boucher's "Humming," about an older woman loving a younger woman, is beautiful and resonant, and deeply comforting. Most of the other offerings are at least good, and though there are a few that aren't my thing, there was only one that I really disliked. That was, unfortunately, the first story in the book, but thankfully, I plowed right on through, and was glad to discover some stories that I will definitely revisit in the future. As a whole, this is varied, evocative, writing, and the subject matter is just challenging enough to be piquant but not uncomfortable. Considered in a modern context, the stories are not particularly shocking or provocative (though there are exceptions). It reads much like any collection of women's erotica . . . smooth, gentle, and not so much randy as emotional. A lot of it is very well-written though a majority of it is a bit more billowing and metaphorical than really crazy with the hips, and the writing does skew toward the "and when she had an orgasm, the whole universe came with her, because she was At One With Everything" school of sex writing. Writers, take heed. There is a difference between having well-groomed, genteel sex scenes, and writing like a rapidly-deflating patchouli-scented gasbag. If your heroine touches the world when she touches herself, you are probably hanging too much on the Big O. Beware the impulse to overstate. Okay? Okay. Overall, worth a look. |
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Diesel vehicles have nearly a 50-percent market share in Europe, thanks to tax incentives and diesel-friendly legislation across the EU. Diesels are so passé there that you can buy a BMW 730d and no one will think it odd that your luxury car burns oil. Pull up in a diesel 7-Series in America and people would leer at you like you've alighted from an amphibious vehicle reeking of saltwater and dead trout.
But now, thanks to the oft-reported combo of newly-raised CAFE standards, not-so-newly-raised gas prices, and the 50-state diesel engine, GM, Ford, and Chrysler are about to dip more than a hesitant toe into the diesel game. Chrysler offers a diesel in the Grand Cherokee, but soon all three automakers will offer diesels in their best-selling lineups of light trucks -- the Dodge Ram 1500 is expected to offer a 50-state diesel after 2009. Light trucks are being used to lead the charge since those buyers stand to gain the most with the least amount of (perceived) sacrifice.
Diesels currently have 3.2-percent of the American market. Some estimates put them at 15-percent by 2015. That's a huge leap, and diesel still has plenty of hurdles. Diesels will come with a cost premium over gasoline-engined cars. That should be easy enough to conquer -- incentives and some quick cost and longevity calculations should convince people of the benefit. The real hurdle is the nagging issue of perception. The plan will probably be to attack that with a price that makes the proposition unbeatable. Said Chrysler's director of environmental affairs, "If it's priced right, we can sell diesel here. Diesel can give you an immediate poke in fuel economy -- 20 to 40 percent. Not many technologies can deliver that today."
[Source: Detroit News]
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