Disappointed - Rated 
I bought this thinking it was a naughty summer read for my beach holiday. Got bored during the introduction. It was hard work getting into this book and never really gets going. Maybe someone will enjoy it but I found it disappointing and the title is promising but misleading.
Disappointing - Rated 
I was a teenager (all girls grammar school) in the 70s and we too had 'dirty' books doing the rounds. However, I think that several of the extracts Knight has chosen wouldn't have been given a second glance by us, and are certainly not worthy of inclusion in this volume. The Georgette Heyer extract is not remotely titilating (even to a young teenager), and as for the over long extract from Forever Amber, I don't see the point of its inclusion at all (it just happens to be India Knight's favourite book...).
Better extracts could have been chosen. I haven't read Fear of Flying and was looking forward to the part I've heard about - but no, just another boring piece.
I give this 3 stars purely for Fanny Hill.
Another gem from India - Rated 
I am biased because I just love India Knight's style of writing. In this book she captures that whole essence of giggling school girls swapping books for the sexy bits.
She mentioned most of my favourites - some of which I had completely forgotten, some have stayed favourites. After I'd read it, I found myself making a list of all the others I would include.
It was also interesting for the excepts she included of books I have never read, now on my reading list!
Loved this book! - Rated
I think this is one of the best books out on the market today! It's got loads of fabulous stuff inside that can make a girl blush and squirm! It is the ultimate in female reading and should NOT be passed up by anyone!! I also liked "Playtime" (by Kim Corum) and any Nancy Friday book for the same reasons!
Highly recommended! Get it today!!
Ten years too young, but the principle remains the same - Rated
I attended an all-girl grammar school some ten years before India Knight started her teenage quest for smut, and therefore a number of her chosen texts - all those 70's bonkbusters, for example - came ... er ... were written too late to enliven my schooldays, but the principle remains the same. Our school's 'dirty bits' reading consisted of much of the oeuvre of Sir Richard Burton, thanks to whom I have never been able to hear the innocent word 'member' with a straight face. India Knight evidently missed this experience. Other titles, however, we have very much in common: dear Constance Chatterley and her flower arranging, Fanny Hill and her parade of mighty engines and, of course, the frankly scary 'O', exposure to whom at a tender age put me off S&M for life. How joyous it is to know that dirty-minded little girls remain exactly the same down all the ages. I do hope that today's tender innocents aren't too busy watching YouTube and playing with their Bratz dolls at least to open a dictionary now and again and look up all the rude words. It would be terrible to think of this fine tradition dying out.
A note for the second edition - 'Fanny Hill'? Written in 1749. That would be how the Georgians did it, India dear, not the Victorians. Boarding school history not all it's cracked up to be?
Ha. 'Crack.' Does one ever get over being 13, I wonder?
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