surfing amazon

I spent a little too much time reading Amazon Japan reviews...Initially I was stocking my shopping cart in preparation for a massive book buying spree, but I ended up getting sucked into clicking around to read the reviews. There's one author who is praised for having endings that leave a bad taste in your mouth. Is that really praise? XD; Another author apparently features a lot of violence (particularly DV) in her books, so one book with only "slight" violence is duly noted as such.

Another novel features a masochist with a dark past (naturally) who is "loved" by two (very different) men. The reviews all praise how the men are so nice to the masochist when not in S&M mode, but I don't know if I'd like the switch. It reminds me too much of BL where (typically) the seme is such a bastard at times, but everything is good because he's so "nice" at other times. Maybe this one is different because it apparently follows S&M conventions rather than being a relationship between a sadistic bastard and his pathetic victim.

tgif!

I'm not sure why the term "penis sex" disturbs me so much.

Any recs on what to do/see/eat/drink at Napa Valley and/or Lake Tahoe in November? Besides French Laundry and skiing, that is.

I am going mad for a good book. There needs to be a BL database that lets you input various criteria (such as glasses uke, salaryman, divorced, non-con, whatever) with some kind of rating of quality (not sure how that part will work) and outputs some recs. It might be cool to do a mini one of my own since I read too many for my own good. Most will go into the "crap" category, but thinking about the various kinks each novel contains would be kind of fun.