Lucius eats the pies, with Erastes...

[erastes]

Climb in the back with your head in the erastes,
and you're gone.

Which song was this lyric from?

Get your own lyrics:

Which seems very apt, actually.

I am reading The Catch Trap. Superb book. Not the least because it's about 500 pages of fat hardback. But it's not an easy read--I don't mean it's convoluted imagery fuelled drug-induced prose, but there's a few hard realistic aspects to it that -- in these days of publishers who won't look at books with protags having sex under 18 (muttermutterutterbilgedon'tgetmestarted)--would have trouble getting published today. But it is real and I applaud the author for that. Won't say more because I want to review it for SIN (and possibly Jessewave too, if she'll let pass the heterosexual experimentation that both protags do) and I need to get my head straight before I review it. Plus I need to finish it. But soooo good. It's one of those books that you read slowly because you don't want it to end.

The icon is for c_smith_author AND SHE KNOWS WHY.

Comments

Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

[joannesopercook.livejournal.com]

Elton's version is better than the original, IMHO. :)

[arionrhod.livejournal.com]

I know you said not to get you started... ;)

I wonder when we won't be able to kill characters any longer because it's murder. By their logic, if writing underage sex is child porn then killing a character would be premeditated homicide, right? And fictional rape would be real?

Sometimes I wonder when I fell asleep and woke up in the twilight zone.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

i know - because NO-ONE EVER HAS SEX BEFORE 18 not even in Europe where it's as low as 13 in some countries.

They all wait! because that's the law in California!!!

Re: Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Bleurgh. I dislike both of 'em actually.

Re: Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

[joannesopercook.livejournal.com]

I'm not fussed with either version, but I do like Elton's, if I have to choose one...I'm not a huge Beatles fan, myself. :)

[markprobst.livejournal.com]

I've heard about that book and always meant to read it. Isn't it fun to read vintage gay fiction. The book is out-of-print and difficult to find. *thinks to self "I wonder who holds the rights and if they are interested in re-pubbing it"*

[aunty_marion]

I adore The Catch Trap - I re-read it about once a year, and it must be about time for it again, because I was watching Trapeze last week, which always reminds me of the book (though the film isn't based on it, and I can't get hold of the book it *is* based on!).

[crawling-angel.livejournal.com]

That was the first lyric I didn't know today. There haven't been that many mind.

*sneaks more pies in the catflap*

[erastes.livejournal.com]

oooo---trapeze is slashiness personnified!!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

i put the blame on an older sister with a beatle obsession

[erastes.livejournal.com]

the copy i have is random house--but i know many many people would want it re-released--i'm very surprised someone hasnt done it

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Lucius in the sky with catnip....

I read Catch Trap ages ago and don't remember much about it - but I'd read both Fire from Heaven and one of the Merrick books at about the same time, and FFH just eclipsed the other two.

[gaedhal.livejournal.com]

It's ridiculous that it's not in print.

I thought maybe after Bradley died they'd do -- I mean
so much crap IS in print, yet this is not. It doesn't
make sense.

Concerning the age thing -- Dickens? "The Persian Boy"?
"Lolita"? Stuff happens, folks. It's reality. And it's
not always skeevy pervs. "Romeo and Juliet" would be
flagged, I guess -- if it isn't already. And don't
even talk about Judy Blume!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

There's a slight aspect of "taking advantage" even though Tommy says he realises he wanted it AFTER Mario started touching him, but I felt uncomfortable about Mario doing that--however, it's realistic and I realised that I had to look it in the face rather than live in the not-very-real m/m land!

[erastes.livejournal.com]

Merrick books?

[chris-smith-atr.livejournal.com]

Words that begin with E:

Enabler
Evil
Electricity


YOU EVIL ELECTRIC ENABLER!

Also: Does the erastes have a sign which indicates where one puts ones head?

[lee-rowan.livejournal.com]

Gordon Merrick, The Lord Won't Mind and a couple of others. Impressive for their time, but I didn't like them very much.

[cynbaby.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. That's a book that I have in paperback, but I'm really holding off on reading it, until I can beg, borrow or steal a copy in hardcover.

[ammonite7.livejournal.com]

Yet Anne Rice is published and "Armand" is in our local library, which will not carry her erotica. Yet "Armand" has several scenes where a young boy is seduced and sexual with an older man. To me, this is truly the sort of thing that should not be acceptable, yet it seems to be. If those responsible are going to dictate what we read, they should at least read it first in order to have some idea what they are talking about.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

How young is the boy? As I say - not every country in the world has the same restrictions as California! I wouldn't read AR - read one and the writing was so dire I wouldn't waste my time on another one, I have to be honest. I really can't see what all the fuss is about.

[erastes.livejournal.com]

well worth it - although I still have about 40 or so pages to go and I'm dreading it may end badly. argh.

[aunty_marion]

Mine's a Ballantine Books paperback, published in 1979. (But it says inside that Ballantine is a subsidiary of Random House.)