Message-ID: <17629eli$9811290429@qz.little-neck.ny.us> X-Archived-At: From: LadyCyrrh@aol.com Subject: The Annex Reviews, 11/28/98 Newsgroups: alt.sex.stories.moderated,alt.sex.stories Followup-To: alt.sex.stories.d Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Path: qz!not-for-mail Organization: The Committee To Thwart Spam Approved: X-Moderator-Contact: Eli the Bearded X-Story-Submission: X-Original-Message-ID: X-Is-Review: yes Here's another set of reviews, the last for November. I was going to review PornoTV: The Return to Gilligan's Island also, but someone else got to it first. As there's currently a gap in the reviewing field it's more fair of me to pick up the wallflowers. I have noticed more individual reviews being posted to alt.sex.stories.discussions, and that's good; and it would be even better if some enterprising soul created a website to gather all these, or better yet a mailing list with a mail list digest so people can read them at their leisure. The stories: The Ladies Who Lunch, by Jenny Blythe (F+/M, humor) Blind Date, by Martina Lee (M+/F cons) Hypno Celeb TNG 16: Claire Danes, by KMB (F/F, celeb) JTT and Erik von D, by J.O. Dickingson (M/M, celeb) The Master, Parts 1 and 2 by Millamber (M/m, BDSM, rom) Movie Notes: Velvet Goldmine, Boogie Nights The Ladies Who Lunch 1 [A] Where posted: ASS, ASSM When posted: 11/20/98 Author: Jenny Blythe Address: VLBT40D@prodigy.com In the nation's capitol, three mature career women periodically get together for the purpose of kidnapping young studs for their sexual use. That's the premise of this story, and it's a good one, with a great hook. The style was fun and breezy without being too heavy (no BDSM here) only the naughty implications of sex with the handcuffed victim in the back of a luxury car, with more implied when they reach their destination. Don't take it too seriously, and watch for part 2. Blind Date [A] Where posted: ASS, ASSM When posted: 11/24/98 Author: Martina Lee Address: susanasue@hotmail.com This story is one of a series called "Oh Susana!" all written by the same author. The main character, in case you haven't guessed it, is named Susana. The title of this story is something of a red herring in that she doesn't go on a blind date, her date blinds her (with a blindfold.) He then takes her to a hotel room where three other men are waiting, and there's a semi-gangbang where she's more than willing to take them all on, all at once--mouth, pussy, and both hands. As a stroke story this one was very good, the sex taking center stage with the characters acting as believable props for it. Nothing new was said, but the ride was well orchestrated and on the realistic side. This may sound contradictory, but nothing breaks the mood of a good stroke story as when the characters start acting in ways no flesh-and-blood human being ever would (I mean nipples that protrude six inches and grown men who say, "Oh, I wanna cum on your tits! Please let me tank you up!") The Master, Parts 1 and 2 [A-] Where posted: ASSGM When posted: 11/5/98, 11/14/98 Author: The Master Address: Millamber@email.msn.com This story was posted as BDSM and deals, by its title, with the Master/slave relationship, but it was really more of anti-slave story in that the two characters seek to grow out of their roles rather than into them. Though the writing was rough it was quite a hanky-puller in places, with a strong father/son feel. In the fantasy world of the story slavery is an underground operation in 20th century America, and Danny is a teenage slave who's met nothing but abuse. He's traded a number of times, never knowing what he's done wrong, until a kindly older man rescues him from the auction block. The rest of the story deals with their sexual relationship as the new master tries to get Danny to stop cringing and start trusting him. Good, sentimental stuff. BTW can someone please tell me where the name 'Millamber' comes from? I sweat it's from a series of David Eddings novels, but I'm not sure. Hypno Celeb TNG 16: Claire Danes [B+] Where posted: ASS, ASSM When posted: 11/15/98 Author: K B Address: kmb_76@yahoo.com In the two years I've been reviewing I've seen about four different series dealing with celebrities and hypnosis and they all follow a common pattern: the young, attractive female lust object is interrupted from her latest activity and hypnotized into having sex with someone (50/50 for the someone being male or female, with an edge towards female) who dissolves the spell at the end of the story with the celebrity going her merry way none the wiser. In this story the celebrity is young actress Claire Danes (Romeo and Juliet) with the hypnotizer being a sort of floor advisor whose job it is to settle Claire into her freshman dorm at Yale; the author more likely than not got this information from People magazine or Entertainment Tonight. The sex here was OK and the story well written, but like all celebrity stories, if you're not familiar with the celebrity in question it's kind of pointless. You wouldn't know anything more about Claire Danes if you read this story than if you read two inches of text in a gossip column. I suppose there is a sort of naughty thrill in imagining the beautiful people fucking like rabid she-wolves, but the problem is the female celebrity in this story could have been anyone; there's nothing to distinguish the way Claire Danes has sex from Julia Roberts or Drew Barrymore because, obviously, the author has never had sex with Claire Danes; if he or she had, there wouldn't be a reason for the story. In sum, if you enjoy generic mind-controlled f/f encounters you'll probably like this, but don't expect any real dirt about the actress. JTT & Erik von D [B+] Where posted: ASSGM When posted: 11/8/98 Author: Dream Spinner Address: authorsix@hotmail.com Apparently, celebrity stories are so popular they've spawned gay versions, featuring young, hunky actors like Brad Pitt and Leonardo di Caprio. In this story, the celebrities are Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Erik von Detten, neither of whom I've heard of, which affected my critique of the story more than a little. The story follows the celebrity pattern in that the main character goes about his daily life (speeding in his car, reflecting on how much sex he's been getting lately, going to charity functions, appearing on talk shows, yadda yadda yadda....all of which comes across as incredibly boring) and meets another celebrity doing the same thing. They fuck. My reservations about this story are the same as the previous one: it purports to be about two real-life guys, yet they never come to life despite the gossip-rag spewings. Therefore it's probably more reasonable to consider the story as a generic sexual encounter, as some of the action was hot (spreading foil packets of hot dog condiments on each other's dicks) than trying to stick faces on the anonymously rutting bodies. However, if you're a fan of the young men in question, you might get more out of the story than I would, though I can't imagine how. Movie Notes: Velvet Goldmine (1998, dir. Todd Hayes); Boogie Nights (1998) Speaking of gay male celebrity stories... "Velvet Goldmine" is a film from abroad about the birth of the early 70s glam rock movement in England, with fictionalized analogs of David Bowie (Brian Slade), Bryan Ferry (Jack Fairy) and Iggy Pop/Lou Reed (Curt Wild). There's lots of good-looking boys kissing boys, some orgies, not a few nude bodies, frontal male nudity (a drunk rock star wagging about on stage, in every sense of the word), simulated masturbation, and male sex (shot from a distance, but it's unmistakable.) The songs were a mixture of period pieces ("Satellite of Love") and competent originals that sounded like Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust period with touches of early Roxy Music. I liked the movie, but I had several bones to pick with it: 1. The rock stars all looked way too healthy to be rock stars. 2. Too many Oscar Wild allusions. 3. The costumes, though superficially authentic, were too exaggerated for the early 70s and were made of materials that didn't exist at the time. 4. The David Bowie analog was a pretty face and nothing more; he didn't have Bowie's lean angularity and graceful sense of movement, or his sense of mime. 5. The Iggy Pop analog (played by Ewan McGregor) was modeled far too heavily on Kurt Cobain. 6. The movie couldn't make up its mind whether it wanted to be realism or a rock n'roll fantasy puff piece like Brian De Palma's "The Phantom of the Paradise." 7. Not a good date movie if your date is a heterosexual man. On the other hand, last year's "Boogie Nights" is everything you've heard, and more (though there was less sex than the movie above.) I particularly liked the banality of it: though the actors could have hot sex on cue, they couldn't act, couldn't paint, couldn't sing, couldn't get a loan, and couldn't make intelligent conversation...just a bunch of boringly average everyday people trying to be nice and get along. Though the movie marred by some gratuitous violence, especially a shoot-out in a donut store that leaves all participants drilled slabs of cold meat, I recommend it. The soundtrack alone is worth the rental, dredging up old 70s favorites like the Electric Light Orchestra, and when was the last time you saw an actor wearing a braided terrycloth sweatband? 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