Celestial Reviews 152 - January 25, 1997

Note: I have been unable to post this issue correctly.  I think (but am 
not certain) that AOL is at fault.  Since AOL's e-mail still works, I am 
going to send this issue and theprevious one to another person, who will 
try to post it.  Correspondence should still come to me at 
Celeste801@aol.com.)

Second Note: The people who write these stories get no compensation for 
their efforts other than occasional reactions from their readers.  
Please consider taking a few moments to write a note to the author of a 
favorite story.  Authors appreciate constructive criticism.

- Celeste

      "Virtual Reality" by Rajah Dodger (virtual reality sex)
             10, 8, 8
      "The Blow Job" by The Hawk (oral sex) 8, 6, 8
      "Shannon's First" by Ainne Pierce (anal sex) 8, 7, 10
      "Together At Last" by The Husband (threesome) 4, 4, 4
      "Perfect Match" by Dafney Dewitt (seduction) 10,  9.5, 9.5
      "Watching - Book 2" by Alan Mathews (romance)
            10, 10, 10
      "Five Stops" by Radiance (sex on a subway train) 10, 10, 10
      "Outlaws" by Southern Belle (gang-rape) 9, 9, 9
      "Submissive First Date" by Luke7557 (submissiveness) 9, 7, 7
      "The Light In Mother's Window" P. D. Michael (exhibitionism)
            10, 10, 10
      "Heaven or Hell?" by Caesar (sexual satiation) 8, 10, 10
      "Spam Revenge" by SpamEater (sexual revenge) 8, 10, 10
    * "Holly" by Dirty Dawg and Tristmegistis (Action adventure) 
            10, 9, 9

* = Repost of a previous review (because the story has recently been 
     reposted).

"Virtual Reality" by Rajah Dodger (rdodger@mailmasher.com).  Carol 
signs herself and her boyfriend up for a sexual virtual reality 
experience.  The story is currently incomplete.  It consists of 
separate descriptions of what happens to Ken and to Carol.  It's 
difficult to tell when reality ends and fantasy begins, but that's 
the idea.  Important ideas are undeveloped, but that's because the 
story is incomplete.  I suppose the author wouldn't mind if you 
sent him ideas or even developed your own plots along the same 
lines.  It's a creative train of thought.

Ratings for "Virtual Reality"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 8
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8
 
"The Blow Job" by The Hawk (trekat@theriver.com)  The guy has been 
lobbying for a blowjob, but his girlfriend finds the very thought 
to be disgusting.  Finally she gives in, enjoys it, and makes him 
eat her pussy.  She's a quick convert and becomes an enthusiast.

Ratings for "The Blow Job"
Athena (technical quality): 8
Venus (plot & character): 6
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 8
 
"Shannon's First" by Ainne Pierce (isitme@pond.net).  {For some reason 
this story was labeled simply "A Love Story" in the postings.}  The guy 
meets the girl in the swimming pool and immediately falls in love with 
her perfect ass.  They hit it off, and he eventually has anal sex with 
her.  The anal sex is very well done, but the overall style drags a 
little.  Some revision of the grammar and style and an improvement in 
the intensity of the plot would turn this into a really excellent story.

Ratings for "Shannon's First"
Athena (technical quality): 8
Venus (plot & character): 7
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
 
"Together At Last" by The Husband (gregsr@en.com). This is an episode 
from "Sue's Intimate Library," which apparently describes the amorous 
adventures of the narrator with her husband and several other lovers.  
This episode did not inspire me with an impulse to download all the 
others.  It is badly written and disjointed.  The sexual scenes have the 
potential to be hot, but as far as I can understand, this potential is 
unfulfilled.

Ratings for "Together At Last"
Athena (technical quality): 4
Venus (plot & character): 4
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 4
 
"Perfect Match" by Dafney Dewitt (ii361@cleveland.Freenet.Edu).  The 
attractive woman in the bookstore says to Fuller, "Excuse me.  Could you 
scratch my back?" Fuller scratches, but he realizes this is a come-on.  
His suspicions that Donna is trying to pick him up are confirmed when 
she glances at her watch and informs him that he has exactly one hour to 
lay her. Fuller is eternally polite; but he is in love with (and engaged 
to) another woman; however, he also has an insatiable appetite for 
illicit adventures.  Donna, on the other hand, has never been turned 
down when she has played this game.  They stop at a fraternity party; 
Fuller tries to resist the temptation; Donna turns up the pressure.  
What will happen?  Read the story and find out why this is called 
"Perfect Match"!

Ratings for "Perfect Match"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9.5
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9.5
 
"Watching - Book 2" by Alan Mathews (alanmath@hotmail.com).  This 
story is a sequel to "Watching," which I ranked number 16 among my 
Top 100 stories of 1996.  You probably should read the original 
(Book 1) first - if only because it's enjoyable and was reposted at 
the same time as this sequel; but Chapter 1 of the present Book 
provides a good recap of Book 1.

This story takes up the adventures of the very young couple and 
their baby as they return to their old hometown.  They encounter 
some new problems, overcome some obstacles, grow closer together as 
a family, and have some great sex. 

Skyla is only two years old and is becoming interested in what 
mommy and daddy do in bed together, and the parents do an exemplary 
job of answering her questions in a way suited to her developmental 
level without introducing her prematurely to the rites of Venus.  
However, I believe some of the ideas that the author puts into 
Skyla's head would be much more realistic if she were, say, two or 
three years older.  {I might also point out that there are almost 
certainly no two-year-olds in the real world who win at Monopoly 
against intelligent twelve-year-olds who are making a serious 
effort.}

The scene in which Alex deflowers his young sister-in-law with Jenny's 
consent is best described as Pollyanna with an Attitude.  But it's sexy 
stuff.

The author consistently makes an interesting grammatical mistake.  He 
uses "I" in situations that call for the objective case.  Sportscasters 
do this all the time, but a.s.s. authors are supposed to be above that 
sort of thing.  The easy way to deal with this problem is simply to 
mentally restate the sentence without the compound phrase. 

It's incorrect to use "me" as the SUBJECT of a sentence, and so it is 
WRONG to say, "Bill and me went out looking for some action."  {Omit the 
compound subject. You would never say, "Me went out looking for some 
action."}  

On the other hand, it is correct to use "me" (and incorrect to use "I") 
as the OBJECT of a sentence or as the object of a preposition.  
Therefore, it would be WRONG to say, "John invited Sue and I over to his 
house for a quick threesome." {Omit the compound phrase. You would never 
say, " John invited I (or we) over to his house for a quick threesome."} 

It's that simple.  I think the reason people make this mistake is 
because using "me" as part of the compound subject is the error that 
they make (and for which they get corrected) earlier in life; and so 
they overreact by saying "I" even in situations where "me" would be 
appropriate.

Ratings for " Watching - Book 2"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
 
"Five Stops" by Radiance (radiance@inforamp.net).  I enjoy the 
thrill of semi-public sex.  I have no imminent urge to take off my 
clothes and run naked down a crowded street, nor do I ever plan to 
be gang-banged in a striptease joint.  But I do enjoy it when my 
husband comes on to me (or onto me!) and arouses me when there are 
other people around - or when I do the same to him - or when we 
have sex in a place where someone else could discover us.  I think 
it's partly the danger of being caught, partly the secret I share 
with my partner, and partly the combination of innocence and lust 
that blend together when we do this.  It's also just plain fun to 
tease each other in this way.

In the present story the narrator and Karen have carefully timed 
the number of seconds between stops near the end of a subway line 
and have planned a sexual escapade on the nearly empty subway car.  
The sexual action gets very hot, as the narrator brings Karen to 
orgasm on the speeding train, while they try to avoid detection.  
Near the middle of the story, I realized that I could not tell 
whether the narrator was a man or a woman.  I'll let you read the 
story and decide for yourself.  The author does a good job of 
maintaining the tension that is an important part of this kind of 
sexual adventure.

Ratings for "Five Stops"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
 
"Outlaws" by Southern Belle.  Judging by the way it was formatted I 
didn't expect much from this story from the Red Dragon's archives; 
but it was surprisingly well written.  A group of southern ladies 
are gathered around the swimming hole while the menfolk are out 
chasing escaped convicts.  The cons sneak up on the ladies and have 
their way with them.  This one probably won't make my Top 100 list, 
but it's not a bad story.

Ratings for "Outlaws"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
 
"Submissive First Date" by Luke7557 (Luke7557@aol.com).  This story 
describes what the title says: a submissive first date.  The woman does 
exactly what the guy demands of her, and they both derive great sexual 
pleasure from the evening's events.  I have trouble with these second 
person ("you") narratives.  It seems arrogant to me for an author to 
assume that the reader is able to identify with the person being 
addressed as "you," which is what this format requires.  It is POSSIBLE 
to carry it off, but very difficult.  The usual impression (and this 
happened for me in this case) is that readers feel they are reading a 
story addressed to someone else that they have been allowed to see.  I 
would prefer a format that enabled me to feel that I was SUPPOSED to be 
reading the story.  With the "you" format, any male or any female who 
does not particularly enjoy being submissive herself is automatically 
excluded from the immediate audience.

Aside from the preceding shortcoming, it's really a pretty sexy story - 
at least if you think it's sexy to give or follow directions real 
carefully in order to achieve orgasms.

Ratings for "Submissive First Date"
Athena (technical quality): 9
Venus (plot & character): 7
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 7
 
"The Light In Mother's Window" P. D. Michael (pdmm@interlog.com).  Back 
in the 1940s the kids used to hang out after dark and look through 
windows to see who was getting naked and who was getting screwed.  A 
primary gathering place was outside the window of the narrator's mother.  
Even the narrator himself used to spend hours outside Mom's window, 
watching her play with herself or with someone else. Mom was a virtuoso, 
but that doesn't mean she was a virtuous woman.

Times have changed.  Back then, people didn't have air conditioning; and 
so they left their windows open, and the kids had something to look at.  
Nowadays, we have air conditioning, and most people close their windows 
and their curtains; but kids have dirty videotapes and sex on the 
Internet.  Maybe that's what's wrong with the baby-boomers!  They grew 
up after air conditioning but before vicarious sex had become easily 
abundant.

Ratings for "The Light In Mother's Window"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
 
"Heaven or Hell?" by Caesar (caesar@bigrock.com).  This is a 
fiendishly clever story.  Literally - I guess!  The man dies and 
goes to the afterlife, where he is given a choice: what would he 
like to do for all eternity.  He replies that he'd like to spend 
eternity fucking. Poof! His wish is granted.  He engages in wild 
sexual activities, including previously taboo actions with his 
wife, a former secretary, and his teenage children.  All this taboo 
sex is very sexy.  The man gets everything he wants - and more.  
There's the catch - and more!  Is this heaven, or is this hell?

The grammar mistakes are abundant but not onerous - mostly things like 
omitted apostrophes, confused verb tenses, and misused homonyms.  It 
would be nice if the author or a proofreader would clean these up, but 
my advice is to ignore them and just follow the flow of the story.  It's 
really very good.

Ratings for "Heaven or Hell?"
Athena (technical quality): 8
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
 
"Spam Revenge" by SpamEater (dmatthew@ix.netcom.com).  Louie is a slimy 
pervert who runs ERRORSNET and several other "erotic" Spam systems on 
the Internet.  He treats his girls so badly that one of them finally 
turns him over to SpamEater, a noble crusader who is fed up with spam on 
the newsgroups and has offered a $1000 reward for Louie's real address.  
SpamEater and his friends arrive at Louie's place of business, and what 
they do to him is not pretty.  Not pretty, but fun!  I normally 
disapprove of coercive sodomy; but hey, we're talking about a guy here 
who posts all those useless ads in the middle of the story postings on 
a.s.s.  Nothing is too disgusting for such scrum.

The moral of the story is: if you want to run a sex site on the 
Internet, that's fine; but don't spam the newsgroups with your ads.  If 
you know what's good for you!!

Ratings for "Spam Revenge"
Athena (technical quality): 8
Venus (plot & character): 10
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 10
 
* "Holly" by Dirty Dawg and Tristmegistis. A while ago Dirty Dawg posted 
Part 1  of this but never got around to finishing it.  Another author 
(listed as Tristmegistis in a previous version that I found, but simply 
as Anonymous in the present version) asked permission to 'borrow' his 
characters for a continuation story; and hence we have this finished 
product.

The plot focuses on two undercover cops who work together and fall in 
love with each other.  They get assigned to a case involving 
prostitution and drugs; and the female partner (Holly) has to do some 
unsavory things to make the bust.  The plot has a lot of interesting 
twists.  The only problem with the story is that a lot of it (especially 
later in the story) seems to be a mere summary of what went on, rather 
than an actual description of events.  

One unique feature of this story is that the hero has "only" a six-inch 
cock.  All the medical and scientific research says that the ole six-
incher works perfectly well; but the average a.s.s dick seems to be in 
the ten-inch range.  This story deserves a high rating just for its 
truth in advertising.  Although there are a lot of questions unanswered 
at the end of the story, it's still a pretty good action adventure.

Ratings for "Holly"
Athena (technical quality): 10
Venus (plot & character): 9
Celeste (appeal to reviewer): 9
 

