A thought or two.

[hellozombies.livejournal.com]

While discussing the idea of sex in novels with a friend of mine, I (of course) brought up LKH and her...um...lack of skills in that particular area. My friend said that it's extremely difficult to write sex--descriptive or not--and that she feels "awkward" while reading sex scenes. I (again) chimed in about Anita Blake--about how not only did I feel awkward, I also felt pretty damn squicked out.

We've all lamented over the boring, repetitive, gross sex. My question is, have you ever--in any novel that's ever been written--seen a decent, titillating, enthralling sex scene?

The more and more I think about it, the more I realize that I haven't seen one that's left me breathless and panting. I know that I'm much more of a slash girl than anything, but isn't that what they're supposed to do?

(It's much more fun laughing about bad sex scenes than it is hunting for good ones, I'll tell you that.)

Thoughts, dear lashers?

Comments

[bluesauce.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Off-hand, two good ones that I can think of are one from American Gods, and the Susan/Harry scene from Jim Butcher's Death Masks. It's the emotion for the second one that does it, these are two very fucked-up people and it's the climax of the tension between the two of them.

[bluesauce.livejournal.com]

My favorite book in the scene, in part because I love the whole "Fallen Angels" as villains, in part because Butcher can definitely write, and also because of that scene. :*)

[easol.livejournal.com]

Yay for Thomas and his Buffy T-shirts!

Sexy yet funny, pretty yet masculine, sexxin' yet not porn.

[tsubaki-ny.livejournal.com]

Dangit, that means I'm going to have to keep reading the series, don't it. ^__^ I find myself rapidly losing momentum (just finished book 2 "Fool Moon") and I'm really not sure why. I wasn't going to buy any more...

[alex-lebeau.livejournal.com]

The first three are kind of bleh, in my opinion. But once you pick up 4 ("Summer Knight"), I think he hits his stride.