/lit/ - Literature

>>22631128
Anais nin has good shit. Little birds is cutesie. Ada and ardor, de sade's boudoir stories, hmm the rainbow by DH Lawrence iirc.

>>22631134
The Rainbow is not erotica. DH Lawrence is not erotica. Anons looking for smut will be greatly disappointed. Amazing literary writer though

>>22631137
Ive seen anons say they felt very horny throughout. Kinda wanted to read it because of that but ehh I still will.

>>22631128
doa the explorer

>>22631134
But yea, get this edition too while you re at it

>>22631141
I mean stuff like Chatterley has some explicit hot scenes but in general his hotter stuff is more mystical. Like a woman basking in the sun and letting it all over her naked body and feeling it open her womb, or a woman feeling the maleness and presence of man’s dark penetrating gaze. He’s one of my favorite writers but he’s probably an acquired taste. Lots of his writing is mystical in nature, about idealistic yearning and how reality never matches up, or how a man and woman feel drawn to each other, and he describes minutely every detail that goes beyond physical. He teeters the line between great and corny, going often on both sides, and often he can feel like a caricature of himself. The way he describes the eternal dual between a man and a woman in a relationship is interesting, it feels like a mythical struggle. Lots of homoeroticism, lots of corniness, but often profound IMO. A lot of his philosophy is corny but some of it is spot on, I think. A very interesting, sensitive and perceptive man who became a pariah. Too smart and sickly for the peasant class, too dismissive of the bourgeoisie, no chance of fitting in with the upper class. An exile and pariah who fit in nowhere. A very individualist Nietzschean outlook on life. It’s a shame he died so young. For all his faults he’s one of the greatest and most overlooked writers IMO. Most only know him because of the obscenity trials and that colors public perception of him