A Marie Claire article states that women want to read about sex. The article then goes on to detail a study of how woman “liked raunchy scenes in novels, and more than half described sex in books as ‘titillating’”. Odd thing is that at the end of the article it states the top 10 books women would take to a desert island, and based on that list below – I don’t see any raunchy sex scenes in the bunch.
1 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
2 Atonement – Ian McEwan
3 Harry Potter (any book) – J K Rowling
4 The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
5 Murder on the Orient Express – Agatha Christie
6 The Other Boleyn Girl – Philippa Gregory
7 The Life of Pi – Yann Martel
8 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
9 Notes on a Scandal – Zoe Heller
10 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Sexy or not – what top ten books would you have to have on a desert island?
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Samantha
on Jul 17th, 2009
@ 1:01 pm:
1. Out of Control – Suzanne Brockmann
2. Caressed by Ice – Nalini Singh
3. Lover Eternal – J.R. Ward
4. Lover Awakened – J.R. Ward
5. Night Play – Sherrilyn Kenyon
6. Pleasure Unbound – Larissa Ione
7. Blood Magic – Jennifer Lyon
8. The entire Bullet Catcher Series – Roxanne St. Claire (I know I cheated buuuut I can’t just pick one)
9.Whisper No Lies – Cindy Gerard
10. Next to Die – Marliss Melton
Tracy Cooper-Posey
on Jul 17th, 2009
@ 3:48 pm:
Just ten???? Can I take my Palm Pilot and load that up? That has 95 on it already, and only weighs 6 ounces.
1. Lord of the Rings
2. Gone with the Wind.
3. Surrender — Lora Leigh
4. The Once and Future King – TH White
5. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes & the Casebook of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle
6. The Dune trilogy – Frank Herbert (yeah, I’m cheating, too.)
7. Zorro – Isabelle Allende.
8. The Dark is Rising series – Susan Cooper
9. The Merlin series, Mary Stewart.
10. The Pendragon – Catherine Christian.
And it’s taken me thirty minutes to whittle it down to that ten, and that’s with mega-cheating. I’m dying to see everyone else’s list.
cheryl c.
on Jul 17th, 2009
@ 5:02 pm:
These are the first 10 to come to mind. I could do this over again several times and come up with a different list each time!
1. LORD OF SCOUNDRELS – Loretta Chase
2. DREAMING OF YOU – Lisa Kleypas
3. THE SECRET or RANSOM – Julie Garwood
4. IT HAD TO BE YOU – SEP
5. NOT ANOTHER BAD DATE – Rachel Gibson
6. SPRINGWATER – Linda Lael Miller
7. TALL, DARK, AND TEXAN – Jodi Thomas
8. LEAVING NORMAL – Stef Ann Holm
9. VIRGIN RIVER – Robyn Carr
10. THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME – Julia Quinn
Grace Fonseca
on Jul 17th, 2009
@ 9:55 pm:
Ooh, gee I’ll just take my Kindle. Heh Heh…
Ten Books That I would take with me, well that is easy
1. The Return of The Kings by J.R. Tolkien
2. The Other Boleyn Girl by Phillipa Gregory
3. Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon
4. Tiger Eye by Majorie M. Liu
5. The Madness of Lord Ian MacKenzie by Jennifer Ashley
6. Kiss The Girls by James Patterson
7. The Vampire Queen’s Servant by Joey W. Hill
8. Interview with A Vampire by Anne Rice
9. The Firm by John Grisham
10. Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Jan
on Jul 18th, 2009
@ 10:36 pm:
1. Night Play–Sherrilyn Kenyon
2. All Through the Night–Suzanne Brockmann
3. The Dark Highlander–Karen Marie Moning
4. Incubus Dreams–Laurell K. Hamilton
5. After the Night–Linda Howard
6. The Invitation–Jude Deveraux
7. Night Game–Christine Feehan
8. Dead on the Dance Floor–Heather Graham
9. Nerd in Shining Armor–Vicki Lewis Thomson
10. Crave the seduction of snow white–Cathy Yardley
There are so many more I could list but this narrows it down.
Maria Lokken
on Jul 19th, 2009
@ 4:10 pm:
I would take all of you to a desert island with me and we could share these wonderful books together!