I recently read an erotica novel (hey, I don't mind the lust at all and it usually works for me even if it's not my thing lust-wise), but I found myself distracted: MOAR SURFING PLZ.
So now I'm going back to my own damn erotica novel and add some more surfing.
Edit: FWIW, this book. I started skipping over sex scenes because they bored me. That said, some of the Hawaii description was better than I expected, so win overall.
It's not so much that I mind lust as, I get bored if that's all that's going on. So erotic novels are not likely to be my thing.
But I'm putting MOAR SURFING PLZ into my critical lexicon alongside "too much boyfriend, not enough roller derby." :-)
(And then there's the "too much sodomy, not enough dinosaurs"/"too much dinosaurs, not enough sodomy" pairing -- but I save that one for special occasions.)
"too much boyfriend, not enough roller derby" = Whip It? I liked that movie a lot and glad she dumped the dude.
I like the dinosaurs one.
I think your distinction is one of the reasons why DUPLICITY worked for me as a movie and, say, SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD did not work as well.
EASY A -- that's a special case, as any movie with the line "I fake rocked your world!" would be. It's not really about the romantic plot nor about lust -- though it is about using other people's desire.
"Too much boyfriend, not enough roller derby" predates the movie; I don't know where it came from. I think I picked the line up from matociquala.
I never saw Duplicity or Easy A; they're both in my (neverending) Netflix queue. I liked Scott Pilgrim well enough, but that one definitely skated by on its kineticism and visual charm; without those, I probably wouldn't have enjoyed the romance a tenth so much.
So now I'm going back to my own damn erotica novel and add some more surfing.
Edit: FWIW, this book. I started skipping over sex scenes because they bored me. That said, some of the Hawaii description was better than I expected, so win overall.
Edited at 2011-02-17 03:13 am (UTC)
But I'm putting MOAR SURFING PLZ into my critical lexicon alongside "too much boyfriend, not enough roller derby." :-)
(And then there's the "too much sodomy, not enough dinosaurs"/"too much dinosaurs, not enough sodomy" pairing -- but I save that one for special occasions.)
<shudder>
I like the dinosaurs one.
I think your distinction is one of the reasons why DUPLICITY worked for me as a movie and, say, SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD did not work as well.
EASY A -- that's a special case, as any movie with the line "I fake rocked your world!" would be. It's not really about the romantic plot nor about lust -- though it is about using other people's desire.
I never saw Duplicity or Easy A; they're both in my (neverending) Netflix queue. I liked Scott Pilgrim well enough, but that one definitely skated by on its kineticism and visual charm; without those, I probably wouldn't have enjoyed the romance a tenth so much.