FMK #3: I heard there was some real kinky stuff in these, y'all*

[melannen]

Okay! Now that I have gone through all the paperbacks and have a better idea of what I actually have, this should be a fun one. :D

Results from last week's FMK.

How FMK works: I am trying to clear out my unread books piles. So there is a poll, in which you get to pick F, M, or K. F means I should spend a night of wild passion with the book ASAP, and then decide. M means I should continue to commit to a long-term relationship of sharing my bedroom with it. K means it should go away, immediately and with prejudice. Anyone can vote, you don't have to actually know anything about the books.

I am going to start officially closing the poll and picking winners on Friday nights because I don't always have time on Sunday to read a whole novel. (although not actually closing it probably, people can still vote.)

Link to long version of explanation (on previous poll)

Poll #18074 FMK #3: I heard there was some real kinky stuff in these, y'all*

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 49

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Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel (1980)

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F
16 (40.0%)

M
7 (17.5%)

K
17 (42.5%)

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqcueline Carey (2001)

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F
32 (74.4%)

M
6 (14.0%)

K
5 (11.6%)

The Wraiths of Will and Pleasure by Storm Constantine (2003)

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F
14 (60.9%)

M
5 (21.7%)

K
4 (17.4%)

Touched by Venom by Janine Cross (2005)

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F
11 (50.0%)

M
4 (18.2%)

K
7 (31.8%)

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon (1991)

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F
16 (42.1%)

M
6 (15.8%)

K
16 (42.1%)

Guilty Pleasures by Laurel K. Hamilton (1993)

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F
12 (41.4%)

M
2 (6.9%)

K
15 (51.7%)

House of Zeor by Jacqueline Lichtenberg (1974)

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F
15 (71.4%)

M
4 (19.0%)

K
2 (9.5%)

High Couch of Silistra by Janet Morris (1977)

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F
15 (71.4%)

M
4 (19.0%)

K
2 (9.5%)

Tarnsman of Gor by John Norman (1966)

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F
6 (17.6%)

M
1 (2.9%)

K
27 (79.4%)

The Healing of Crossroads by Nick O'Donohoe (1990)

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F
11 (50.0%)

M
2 (9.1%)

K
9 (40.9%)

Kildar by John Ringo (2006)

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F
7 (29.2%)

M
1 (4.2%)

K
16 (66.7%)

*I may have heard wrong

Comments

[rushthatspeaks]

I wound up reading that entire John Ringo series because I wanted to find out if the OH JOHN RINGO NO review was accurate. It was. Then I felt rather as though I had eaten my weight in marzipan: impressed with myself, nauseated, and worried that I'd gotten some on me. DON'T DO IT. Or if you do, remember that Kildar is probably the best and least offensive of these, and avoid the others like the plague they are.

Kushiel's Dart is legit a good book.

If you really feel the need to read a Gor book, I can send you a link to Gay Bejeweled Nazi Bikers of Gor, the parody a friend wrote which also happens to duplicate everything you might want about the actual Gor reading experience.

[melannen]

I *have* read Houseplants of Gor (which mostly just made me wonder if the writer had read Good Omens recently. Gay Bejeweled Nazi Bikers of Gor sounds like an important SF work in its own right, though!

Yeah, most of the books in this poll are supposed to be pretty Not Good, mostly because if I owned a *good* SF book with non-standard sex I have probably already read it. :P The exception is Kushiel, which I have only not read because the books are GIANT BRICKS OF THINGS. IF it wins you are probably getting another late update next week because, literally as thick as my paperback Les Mis.