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Serendippily
Serendippily
Jan 2020
7:17pm, 11 Jan 2020
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Serendippily
Mix of James Hadley Chase, Ian Fleming and Leslie Thomas I suspect. And walkabout
McGoohan
McGoohan
Jan 2020
7:35pm, 11 Jan 2020
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McGoohan
Mine was Gray Matters by William Hjortsberg. It's a sci-fi novel where - after some disaster or other - most of the human race only survive as disembodied brains. To keep them 'happy' their keepers feed them virtual reality style entertainments. There is a lot of VR sex. A lot.

I'd got this book from the school book club :-o I think they assumed it was harmless sci-fi.
Diogenes
Diogenes
Jan 2020
7:39pm, 11 Jan 2020
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Diogenes
I think mine was Lair, by James Herbert
Bintmcskint
Bintmcskint
Jan 2020
8:22pm, 11 Jan 2020
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Bintmcskint
Pretty certain mine was Fanny Hill.
Quite a lot in that.
LazyDaisy
LazyDaisy
Jan 2020
8:49pm, 11 Jan 2020
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LazyDaisy
I remember the boys in class being amazed and thrilled when a girl called Jacqueline Jenkins brought a copy of that into school :-) There were some pages that the book just fell open at, they'd been read so many times :-)
Purps
Purps
Jan 2020
8:51pm, 11 Jan 2020
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Purps
I think I was in my teens and got a mills and boon from the library, I don't think it was much good.
Little Nemo
Little Nemo
Jan 2020
9:46pm, 11 Jan 2020
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Little Nemo
Mine was Go Ask Alice which my friends dared me to get out of the school library.
Fizz :-)
Fizz :-)
Jan 2020
10:44pm, 11 Jan 2020
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Fizz :-)
I think mine was Suzanne Howatch. Does Cashelmara have sex in?
Columba
Columba
Jan 2020
9:54am, 12 Jan 2020
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Columba
There was Fear of Flying... But I think that came after Lady Chatterly. As did The Story of O.

It seemed that Lady C opened the floodgates to sexually explicit novels, but maybe they would have opened anyway.
TomahawkMike
TomahawkMike
Jan 2020
10:23am, 12 Jan 2020
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TomahawkMike
Cider with Rosie.

Ps. I just read 'The Salt Path'. Very good. Possibly slight tail off at the end where the second bit of walking (after the period of work) was a bit more summarised that the earlier bit, but then I assume the point had been made. Minor personal disappointment that it doesn't have the tricky Brixham to Kingswear bit mentioned. It's a tough bit that OH and I have done a couple of times. Still, awesome feat.

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