Lust romance or early experience. All books are about: “Romance of Lust or Early…. "Young Adam" - Alexander Trokki

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Your hottest fantasies will come true ... Your most secret dreams will come true ... Here are four stories written by the masters of a modern love story. Four stories of love - and passion, feelings - and sensuality, joy - and pleasure. Do you think our days are devoid of romance? So you haven't read this wonderful book yet!

Waiting for Prince Patricia Horst

After the divorce of Tessa and Tyler, seven long years have passed. Having met again, they understand that they still love each other, but it is not so easy to forget past grievances. Will they be able to use the second chance given by fate, and, in spite of everything, be together again or will love fail again?

The Incredible Shrinking Man Richard Matheson

The story of a man who, under the influence of radiation and insecticides, begins to inexorably decrease to microscopic proportions. R. Matheson's fame truly knows no bounds: his works have been translated into many languages of the world, films based on his scripts, shot by such eminent directors as Roger Corman, Steven Spielberg and others, have long become classics of cinema. No wonder Ray Bradbury called R. Matheson one of the most important writers of the 20th century, and Stephen King argued that this author had the greatest influence on him. R.'s creativity ...

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An artistic story about the fate of the biblical Barabbas. The drama of two thousand years ago, which influenced the history of all mankind, described in the book, opens before us a picture that was played out in Jerusalem, first as a tragedy, and then as a great joy for the apostles and all sincere believers in Palestine. The story is presented as if this is happening now before our eyes, and each of us is a direct participant in certain scenes. Reading this book, you immediately understand why the Jews crucified Christ. The events of distant antiquity have become ...

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There are many books in the world, and not all of them are well written. At the same time, most authors choose the same eternal theme, which is called love, as the basis of the plot. How many platitudes have been written on this score! And every year the number of trivial books is growing exponentially. However, there are authors who bring to this concept something new, exciting, completely different from what is called romance today. Their novels tell about the relationship between a man and a woman, about love between mother and daughter, about narcissism. Moreover, each story is both unique and painfully familiar.

1. "Young Adam" - Alexander Trokki

Young Adam was written by the Scottish writer Alexander Trocchi, who can be counted among the beatnik movement. The novel itself was filmed, with such worthy Hollywood stars as Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton starring.

The narrative is not devoid of extreme and sensuality, the intensity of passions. The book is a thriller novel, deeply pessimistic, describing the history of modern Adam, who not only eats the forbidden fruits, but also does not pay for it. Instead, others suffer, because we live in modern times, not biblical times. He does not need to be afraid of punishment - let others be afraid of it. There will be no happy ending.

2. "Expanding the space of struggle" - Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq is one of the rare occasions when a popular writer of popular novels can also be a deep writer who studies the topic thoroughly before taking up the pen. This Frenchman is world famous and world scandalous. His latest book, Submission, caused a stir in the European community and split it into two irreconcilable sides.

But the earlier Houellebecq was just as good. Expanding the Space of Struggle is a novel about sex, its impact on the mind of a young person and, of course, about love. The main character is easy to try on because of his absolute dullness. He works as a programmer at one of the many computer companies, he is thirty years old, and he makes good money. The book is about an ordinary person in the modern world and the liberal model through which this world passes.

3. "Morel's Invention" - Adolfo Boi Casares

Morel's Invention is a book by a Latin American writer, a good friend of Borges, by the way. He doesn't have many books, he wrote reluctantly. But he still created several novels. "Morel's Invention" is a novel that tells the story of unrestrained loneliness, devoid of any meaning. The hero drives himself into a prison, which, although it looks like an island in paradise, is still a prison.

He falls in love with the image of a girl whom he sees at the same time on the same hill. But he cannot approach her - he is afraid. The girl, meanwhile, does not notice him. Perhaps, on purpose, perhaps, he really does not see an unkempt, savage-looking man. Casares shows the inner conflicts of the protagonist and his attempts to get mutual sympathy from the girl, and all this takes place against the backdrop of island landscapes.

4. "The Body Snatcher Story" - Anne Rice

Once upon a time, vampire novels were quite respected genre literature. But it seems like good vampire books settled on Anne Rice, who came up with the very story behind Interview with the Vampire. One of the most colorful characters was the vampire Lestat, who was not central - all the attention was drawn to the character of Brad Pitt. And it seemed unfair.

However, not everything is so bad. Lestat de Lioncourt is the protagonist of many of Rice's other books, including The Story of the Body Snatcher. The narration is conducted on behalf of the main character, as is customary for this author. Lestat at the very beginning of the book falls into a severe depression: he no longer wants to be a vampire. It seems terrible to him, but he really wants to become a human being, to be alive in the full sense of the word. And, fortunately for him, such an opportunity appears. He becomes a person, a mortal person who can have ordinary sex, love, show feelings. But things are going awry, because being human is not so easy. Good mysticism, not without humor. The book contains sex, lust, narcissism, and, of course, the essence of a person, described from the outside.

5. "Door to December" - Dean Koontz

Dean Koontz is arguably one of the top ten American horror writers. It is highly regarded by critics, and each new book sells faster than the speed of a bullet.

"Door to December" may not be a film about love between a man and a woman, but it is a film about love for a family. Old feuds are immediately forgotten, the problems with which they turn to a family psychotherapist, too, when something mysterious threatens the life of a child. There are three main characters in this story: detective Dan Haldane, courageous mother Laura McCaffy and her nine-year-old daughter Melanie. Of course, there is a fourth character that has nothing to do with humanity - it is simply "it", which is dangerous, who kills and with whom you cannot agree. The Trinity is simply trying to survive while cementing family ties. Dean Koontz is actually a very family writer.

Recently, several friends have been thinking about the eternal without saying a word, namely, about books. We rarely read them (and I am no exception). But 20 years ago, the book was an obligatory attribute of the bedside table. And I'm not talking about the hundred-year-old past.

Screen adaptation of the erotic novel " 50 shades of grey”Became one of the most sensational events of this winter. The modern public is clearly “hungry” for shocking and sexual revelations. However, few people know that the best examples of an erotic novel were written in the Victorian era, and their authors spoke much more openly about sex and BDSM.

The books are arranged in reverse order ...

10. Erotic magazine "Pearl" (1879-1880)

For the top 10 sexiest books of the 19th century, start with The Pearl, a monthly magazine published during the 1879-1880s by Englishman William Lazenby. Until the publication was closed, accused of immorality, erotic stories were printed on its pages, which often depicted frank scenes from the life of high society, incest and scourging.

Cover of the magazine "Pearl"

9. Novel "The Romance of Lust, or Early Experiences" (1873-1876)

Most erotic novels were published anonymously, one of which was “ The Romance of Lust, or Early Experiences» (« The Romance of Lust, or Early Experience"). This work was published by William Lesenby... The story is based on the confession of a fifteen-year-old boy about his first sexual exploits, which were not limited to deprivation of virginity with two sisters, but continued with a series of familiar guys, girls and governesses. For the author of this novel, there is no taboo: homosexuality, incest and pedophilia - all this and much more will be learned by the readers of the novel.

Cover of the novel * The Romance of Lust *, 1873-1876

8. The novel "The Sins of the Cities of the Plain" (1881)

William Lesenby in 1881 he contributed to the publication of yet another novel that shocked prim England. " The Sins of the Cities of the Plain"- the first work, the main character of which was a homosexual. It is noteworthy that not only fictional characters act in the novel, but real personalities are also mentioned. In particular, the author writes about two transvestites Ernest Bolton and Frederick Park ... By the way, the seller of pornographic literature Charles Hirsch even claimed that he had acquired this particular book. Oscar Wilde in 1890.

Cover of the novel * The Sins of the Cities of the Plain *, 1881

7. The book "The Nunnery Tales" (1866)

Book " The nunnery tales"(1866) shocked readers not only with explicit scenes of group orgies and all kinds of sexual perversions. The author chose a nunnery as the scene of action, needless to say that nuns and priests “sinned” a lot and with delight.

Cover of the collection * The Nunnery Tales *, 1866

6. The story "Venus in Furs" by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1870)

The recognized genius of sexual pleasures is, of course, the Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch... His story " Venus in furs”To this day remains one of the most widely read works, because in it the author for the first time showed a love affair in which a man takes the role of a slave, obeying a woman in everything. In fact, this novel is a harbinger of masochism in the broadest sense of the word, because the term itself appeared by the name of its "discoverer".

Cover of the story of Sacher-Masoch * Venus in furs *

5. Novel "The Autobiography of a Flea" (1887)

Novel " The Autobiography of a Flea» (« Flea autobiography", 1887) is one of the most daring satirical works of the 19th century. Its author, a London lawyer Stanislas de Rodes, published the work anonymously. The narration is on behalf of pubic lice , settled on the body of a nymphet, who observes the various love adventures of her "mistress".

Cover of the novel * Autobiography of a Flea *, 1887

4. The novel "The Lustful Turk" (1828)

Erotic novel " The lustful turk» (« Lustful turk", 1828) - a tribute to the enthusiasm of readers for exotic countries and traditions. The work has an epistolary form, these are letters from an Englishwoman who fell into sexual slavery to the Turkish sultan and is doomed to fulfill his all sorts of whims, living in a harem. The novel gained such immense popularity that it was reprinted several times in the 20th century and was even filmed.

Cover of the novel * The Lustful Turk *, 1828

3. The novel "The Mysteries of Verbena House" (1881)

Two-volume novel " The Mysteries of Verbena House”, Published in 1881 with numerous illustrations, inspired by the love of the British for discipline and order. The storyline is based on the later classic collision: for disobedient schoolgirls, the abbess of the boarding school calls a strict teacher who willingly "punishes" the guilty nymphets.

Cover of the novel * The Mysteries of Verbena House *, 1881

2. The collection of poems "The Whippingham Papers" (1887)

« The Whippingham Papers"- a collection of sado-masochistic poems by authorship Algernon charles swinbure... In most of his joke poetry, he describes corporal punishment that was applied to young men in school. Apparently, the memory of the rods remained with men for a long time, as they read this edition with interest.

Cover of the collection * The Whippingham Papers *, 1887

1. The novel "Gynecocracy" (1893)

Voted Best Erotic Novel of the Victorian Era " Gynecocracy"(1893). Critics believe that he reveals secret desires that haunted the British. In particular, the author describes typical cases when men dressed in women's clothes, imitating governesses, and served girls, fulfilling any of their whims, sometimes even the most unpredictable ones.

Cover of the novel * Gynecocracy *, 1893

The Ukrainian underground scene of the second half of the 90s is strongly associated with such directions as paganmetal, blackmetal and its radical offshoot NSBM. Many of the projects that originated in those years exist to this day, having managed to gain popularity by now, but, despite this, retaining a radical message in combination with a national flavor. Against the background of such monsters as Nokturnal Mortum, Lucifugum or Dub Buk, you involuntarily forget that it was Ukraine that became the birthplace of one of the most diverse and original collectives of the post-Soviet dark scene. We are talking about the Shmeli group, now based in Moscow.

At the turn of the 2000s and the dashing 90s, for the young fans of the radical underground scene, the KTR collections “Punk Revolution” were a real window to the big world for the young fans of the radical underground scene. The Internet was still considered a luxury at that time, and Troitsky and his comrades, taking advantage of the complete lack of ideas about the canons of punk music among the target audience, turned most of the compilations into a musical and ideological joke.

It would seem that such a thing could be invented in order to stand out against the background of this colorful obscurantism - it does not matter, for the better or for the worse, but even then the project attracted attention, supplementing the usual punk rock with strict industrial rhythms atypical for this direction, sometimes turning into gloomy semi-acoustics. As for the lyrics, there was no rude protest, no down-to-earth dirty everyday life, no abstract philosophy characteristic of the work of the notorious Az, no, even more so, politics. Instead, there were gloomy mystical images, in some places interspersed with the downright Letov surrealism of the late 80s.

Another hallmark of Bumblebees from the very beginning was the singularities of the vocals. In fact, there were and are two voices in the group, and if for the male component, which is assigned a secondary role, you can still find analogues if you wish, then Lyolya's vocals combine rudeness and at the same time some kind of infernal femininity, causing associations with succubus stuck in the transformation phase.

All this was back in 1999, and the history of the Shmeli group began a year earlier, in the Ukrainian city of Rivne. This, however, does not mean at all that for the founders Alexander Shmelev and Lyolya Zasedateleva this was the first project, but it was precisely as Bumblebees that they received recognition and fame.

Contrary to someone's expectations, the name of the group has no mystical connotation or anything like that. Alexander Shmelev had the nickname "Bumblebee" long before the founding of the collective, and after Lyolya joined him, the newly-made family began to be called simply "bumblebees." The session musicians came and went, and this reckless couple remained and remains inseparable.

The first albums of Bumblebees were also recorded in Ukraine. This happened, by the way, at the Kiev studio Moon Records, which released about the same years semi-official editions of rare albums of Civil Defense and Communism on cassettes with some kind of printing. From the very beginning, the Bumblebees actively used the keyboard section, but in the songs, no, no, and there was a typical punk shocking gouging, and the dirty guitar sound was very reminiscent of the same Summer period of the 80s.

The Moscow stage of the Bumblebee's creativity began a year later, when their recordings caught the eye of Spider. The Heavy Rock Corporation not only published their albums, in parallel including the songs of the Bumblebees in almost all the collections published by the corporation, but also gave the Bumblebees the opportunity to declare themselves to the Moscow public from the stage.

Collaboration with the Hard Rock Corporation had a twofold effect on the band. On the one hand, it was Spider who opened the Bumblebees to a much wider audience than when the group was based in Rivne.

On the other hand, Sergei Evgenievich Troitsky by that time had long and tightly played with politics, involving in this process those collectives that he took under his wing. One way or another, participation in events under the slogan "Skinheads are coming" has created a definite reputation for Bumblebees among the so-called "right" punks. Even so, in those years, the Russian punk culture began to join the overseas culture at an accelerated pace, so the exclamations of “Nazi punx, fuck off” to the group were constantly flying.

It was during the KTR period that the epoch-making song "Shaved Muscovites" was recorded, which became one of the hymns of young fighters for the domination of the Aryan race, at the same time causing tons of hatred among anti-fascist punks. What the musicians themselves were thinking about then is not known for certain, but now they confidently assert that it was a delicate banter. However, it is enough to listen to this track once, being in your right mind, to believe them.

It is difficult to say how everything would have turned out if in 2002 the group had not left the Heavy Rock Corporation in order to begin to conquer the brains and ears of the Russian public on their own. This event was preceded by the release of the first Bumblebee CD entitled "The Hangover". At its core, it was a collection that absorbed the best pieces of the KTR period of the group's existence. There were no shaved Muscovites there, but the compilation included tracks that really enriched the band's repertoire, the lyrics of which the group is also obliged to cooperate with Spider. We are talking about things originally recorded for the collections of "Party member songs" on the verses of the scandalous writer Oleg "Gastello" Abramov, such as "The Clown" and "Skeletons". There is not a drop of politics here, but there is lyrics, hopelessness and, of course, horror:

Exactly at 5.30 am Moscow slept in a sticky coma

And the shadow fell as trains entered the ground from the tunnels.

The card is blue, the card is red

Exactly at 5.30 am the skeletons on the trains.

One way or another, the first 5 years of the band's existence turned out to be extremely fruitful, since at that time more than 15 releases were released, not counting participation in compilations. The stage that followed after this can to some extent be considered the second birth of the group. The point here is not only and not so much that our couple once again updated the rest of the line-up - yes, now the Bumblebee albums have begun to be released on discs by labels such as Mystery or Moroz Records, but with the departure from KTR their concert audience has seriously decreased. As a result, a difficult period began in the life of Bumblebee and Les, when Alexander was forced to earn a living as a dishwasher and a loader, and Lyolya traded on the notorious Gorbushka.

Nevertheless, it was during this difficult period that the Bumblebees' art rapidly evolved. Not a trace of dirty punk themes remained, both in music and in lyrics, where swearing almost completely disappeared, and the style in which Bumblebees began to play was characterized as industrial folk. The lyrics began to focus more on feelings and dark aesthetics; we can say that creativity has become more romantic. The demonic essence of a woman, previously embodied only in the characteristic vocals of Les, is now reflected in a whole series of songs that have invariably been included in each of the collective's albums for five years. Starting off with the track "Woman-Bird", a folk semi-acoustic ballad from the album "Ice", it ended with the track "Woman behind the wheel" from the disc "Fuel" in 2010. Between them were - a shadow, and - a butterfly, and - a bat, and even - drama.

Around the same time, the first car appeared in the life of a cheerful couple, and since they were always not fools to travel, the attitude towards it was somewhat different than just a tin can on wheels. One way or another, at this time a new stable image appeared in their songs, first embodied in the tracks "Head straight" and "Black Volga":

You keep me warm

The iron comfort of my car.

I know it's not in vain

We strive with you to the dream of the top.

Past cities and distant lands

Leaving a trail of sore wheels, feet

On the bones of love of unhealed wounds

There, where the last crossroads in life awaits.

At the same time, the stage image of Bumblebees acquired its current gothic-aristocratic appearance. The albums are recorded one at a time, maximum two a year, but their quality is incomparably higher than the first creations of the collective. To a large extent, this was facilitated by the temporary return to the composition of the keyboardist Rostislav Shcherbatko, known as Ross and who played with the Bumblebees back in 1998. As a professional pianist, this man made a significant contribution to the high quality of the music performed by the collective, which has survived even after his final departure.

A new period of creativity of Bumblebees begins in 2009. The crisis that broke out a year earlier was not only a blow to the well-being of the majority of citizens of the Russian Federation - in culture and contemporary art, this topical topic has found a rich embodiment. The Bumblebees also did not stand aside, having recorded at the very beginning of 2009 a truly anti-crisis disc "Moscow Pleasure Fair" (abbreviated as MNU), which is a caustic mockery of the consumer society that has undergone a cruel bummer:

There is a crisis in the world, a crisis in the world ... prosaic revenge!

Business perishes, business perishes ... But there is always money for vodka!

However, this does not mean that all the images in their songs have become so mundane. There was a place on the disc for both gloomy philosophy and abstract mysticism. The track "Zoya" stands apart, where, to the accompaniment of synthesized organ sounds, Bumblebees present their version of the once sensational story about "stone Zoya", a girl who decided to dance with the icon of St. Nicholas and paid dearly for it.

The band's next disc was released in 2010. The Mechanical Ballerina album turned out to be remarkable for a number of reasons. On the subject, he continued the line set at the MNU, however, the problem of a consumer society that turns people into soulless dummies is considered much more globally:

Soon there will be no subcultures

In the moment of the apocalypse, except for one.

A subculture called "people"

People go, go! People, hoi!

The gods have drawn eyes for us,

We are not people - we are living masks,

We do not need love, not affection,

It would take us longer so that the paint does not wear off

We are porcelain dolls

And don't say anything

Just if you are with us too

Pret? So with!

Most of the items included on the disc were originally intended for another side project by Bumblebee and Les called U.L.A. I must say that this is not the first attempt by Bumblebees to create a parallel project.

Back in 2001, together with the musicians of the Tetrider group, Bumblebees created the Shreds project, within the framework of which the album Drawings in the Soul was released. Later, together with Alan Waters, they recorded in 2003 the disc "Stop Humanity", which was released already within the framework of the "AntiVirus" formation, and the album "Eight Women on the Rainbow" in 2005 in the column "performer" reads: "Bumblebees & Alan Waters ". By the way, on the last of the listed discs, a live violin is used for the first time.

There was also the 2006 album "Button", listed as a solo album by Bumblebee and Les, but the only release by U.L.A. Sky Against was never officially published. Nevertheless, this side-project turned out to be the richest in terms of the use of exotic instruments by the Bumblebees. From the very first things, live bagpipes draw attention to themselves, evoking associations with the tireless Germans Tanzwut. In addition, the album found the use of flute, which, however, can hardly surprise a connoisseur of heavy music flavored with folk, and even gusl and dombra. The last instrument came from the Bumblebees after a trip to Kazakhstan and was used to record one of the most notable tracks on the album, called "Ael Aua". The lyrics for the song are inspired by Kazakh legends and traditions, and a very worthy video was shot on the song itself.

I must say that Bumblebee clips have been filmed for a long time and regularly. As if to counterbalance the teams complaining about how expensive and time-consuming it was, initially the group used only available means to create video sequences. Sometimes the clips were cartoons created in Flash or filmed on an amateur camera, then to be included on the first CDs as a free bonus. This approach, in which the group was not afraid to practice and gain experience, has borne fruit, since for several years now any new clip of Bumblebees has invariably aroused interest.

The period of socialism and anti-glamor is completed by the disc "Fuel" released at the end of 2010. At the same time, it became a real anthem for desperate travelers who are not afraid to go "only by signs along a deserted road" towards adventure.

The subsequent "Workshop for the rehabilitation of paranoids" in some places returns the listener to the times of dirty and shocking images characteristic of the Rovno and KTR periods of the group's creativity. After such a reboot, to date, two more discs have been recorded - "Theater of Freaks" (2012) and "A Pair of Corpses" (2013), but it is difficult to talk about the emerging trends at the new stage of creativity. Perhaps the answer to this question will be given by the next albums of Bumblebees, but for now it remains only to wait and speculate.

Having become Moscow long ago, the Shmeli group was and remains an atypical example for the underground scene that enthusiasm and creative fertility do not always go away with age. Both Bumblebee and Les have already passed 40, but this reckless couple continues to do what they love and delight their fans, both with fresh records and regular live performances, many of which are colorful shows.

In conclusion, it remains only to quote from one of the tracks from the disc "Theater of Freaks", which, in fact, is a good metaphor for the creative position of this original band with an unusual history:

People

Forget the years

Die on weekdays

Past worries.

They made me laugh and silently melt away.

Hyena, dance, hyena, sing!

Siren, kiss your lips in hellish syrup.

Skeletons wake up underground

And the tattoo on the pope will come to life by itself.