Stephen King Erotica

[JohnDalglish]

didn't peter straub make a joke about sk and love scenes somewhere? maybe it is in a foreward to something of sk's? anyone else have an image of scott frying bacon up in his underwear? prolly the name of our member, dances in underwear, brought that one up out of the murky depths....so what are the more memorable scenes?....gerald's game? lisey's story? wizard and glass? insomnia? can one put a percentage on them, count em up and pass judgment? do people who follow golf do so because someone has a mean nine-iron? is there such a thing as a nine-iron?
i tried finding the straub quote...couldn't find it...so maybe it doesn't exist...looked in secret windows, there's an intro there...i spose where there are sex scenes, they are integral to the story and nothing more, nothing less.

Hi,

To paraphrase from memory, Bluey, Peter Straub said something like -

'Wait till Stevie discovers sex'.

Long days and pleasant nights

[wally wonder]

Hi,

To paraphrase from memory, Bluey, Peter Straub said something like -

'Wait till Stevie discovers sex'.

Long days and pleasant nights

where did straub say that, john? i looked through that intro to secret windows again, didn't see it there, again, but my mind has been on the tilt-a-whirl the last few days and i don't know if i'm comin or goin...maybe it was in one of the essays, night-outs, interviews of secret windows? i thought i read a response from sk, too....dunno where that was though.

[Moderator]

It's on the first and second page of the Introduction,

"....During the course of the 1998 interview at the Royal Festival Hall, King responds to a question about the uncharacteristic eroticism in Bag of Bones by alluding to an ancient remark of mine, made in his presence, that 'Stevie hasn't discovered sex yet.'...."

[wally wonder]

i read something from john grisham, too...something about erotic westerns....always wondered if he had sk in mind?

[Jenn*]

King romance yuck, keep writing the scary stuff.

[PatInTheHat]

Hmm, though naturally I can only assume, I'm guessin' that you prefer the underwear that's fun-to-wear then.

[KyleKarabekian]

Wow. That is... strange. You skip to the sex scenes? Ummm, I think he shuold stick to horror, 'cause I think that you're one of those few fans that isn't quite content with what he writes. Wow. Wow. He should never try his hand at romance. NEVER!

[fushingfeef]

For some reason, this reminded me, he was featured on the the special paperback insert cover of "Misery", in a mocking nod to trashy romance novel covers. Unless Steve was really working out that year in the gym, they must have superimposed his head onto another model's body.

[Damaris]

I very much appreciate his rather sparse descriptions of sex. I think leaving things unsaid is not only more tasteful but more intimate. Splashing it across the page with every lurid nuance exposed removes all the mystery. What were the three Ps he mentioned in the forword of Blaze ... purple, panting, and pulsating? If I want 200 pages of that I can grab any piece of smut with Fabio on the cover. Thankfully, Mr. King writes stories about people who sometimes have sex, not stories about sex that require people as stand-ins.

[LadyPain]

I'll take horror, thank you very much. I can get the naughty bits elsewhere, but good horror is hard to find. Stephen does that the best, though his son is definitely up there too.