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Title: Ironwood by Don Winslow ISBN: 1-56201-051-4 Publisher: Blue Moon Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The first of certainly a classic series of erotica books
Comment: In this book we find the narrator, James, a 20's something young man, tainted by the idle life of the rich, summoned to a school for young girls, Ironwood, located, of course, in a secluded backwoods. James, Being the black sheep of his family on the verge of being disinherited by his family, jumps at the chance to go to Ironwood at the behest of his rouge uncle to take up a position that is the fantasy of young men.
The school, run by Cora Blasingdale, is dedicated to collecting very young girls for training as houskeepers, (for the ugly ones) while the rest are well trained, highly submissive, sexual partners for the wealthy. James, being the only male at the school, is very quickly introduced to the gentle teaching methods of the matrons that the reader could describe as S/M with fur gloves ....
Although James does get to taste the forbidden fruit at the school, most of the sex scenes are adolescent and rarely finish in what would be expected in an adult sexual encounter. That frustrating fact notwithstanding, I did finish the book surprised that the author managed to maintain my attention while other books of the same genre would have had me screaming after the fifth spanking of the young charges.
Rating: 4
Summary: Satisfying
Comment: Unlike the another reviewer here, I don't consider a work of erotica on the same terms as, say, the latest bestseller. I don't consider it in light of a classic by DH Lawrence either, although the setting and mood of Ironwood could be more readily compared to something by Lawrence.
The point is, whether one judges a book of erotica in literary terms or not, the bottom line is that one reads erotica to become aroused. If the subtlties of style and how well the writer has dealt with the cliches of the trade matter to you, you should pay close attention to the other review.
Rating: 2
Summary: Strictly Stroke with a Surefire Formula
Comment: Hard enough for you? _Ironwood_ is strictly stroke, traditional (mostly) M/f chateau fiction with a surefire formula. Chateau fiction has a very private, self-sufficient setting where no one will hear you scream unless he wants to. Islands, country estates, villas and castles are popular. Take Roissy or Eden, for example. Winslow, also author of _Secrets of Cheatem Manor_ and _The Insatiable Mistress of Rosedale_, is a chateau pro. The formula is #38: "it's a tough job, but somebody's got to do it," AKA "kid in a candy store."
By the way, this manuscript was discovered in a strongbox buried beneath the floor of a stately old townhouse in Copenhagen. The period is generic Victorian, with the propriety of the prose in pleasing contrast to the lewdness of the proceedings. At least, the period is pre-silicon: "...eight pairs...ranging from small nubs of budding feminine promise to the more fuller richness of rounded summer apples." Fruit is in season: "...little pear-shapes with their soft, pink tips."
The narrator, a scandal and debt-ridden scoundrel named James, has the perfect qualifications for the post previously occupied by black sheep Uncle Rupert: pimping for a sexual training academy. Ironwood's graduates are as compliant as they are beautiful. They fetch a handsome price on the international market, never mind who they are, where they come from and why nobody ever misses them.
There's not a plot, unless you count James's improvement of Ironwood's cash flow by turning it into a full-services Playboy Club and selling memberships to a few of his equally depraved buddies. _Ironwood_ is mostly good parts and they're mostly conventional: mammary worship, buggering, that sort of thing. What does a dominant man want? Same old, same old. It's evidently what readers want, too. We're already up to _Ironwood IV: The Taking of Jane_, and there's a graphic novel version, as well.
It's Fantasyland. The women climax copiously especially when coupled to the diabolical, piston-driven machine in the Punishment Room. The girls are Stepford submissives from a catalog. They don't plot escape, trade backgrounds or dread their fate. No wonder it's so short.
The climax is a gala ball with, at last, an element of originality; the girls perform in a cabaret of erotic scenarios. Two play naughty maids, who turn the tables on their mistress. There's F/f spanking and paddling. _Ironwood_ also dabbles in puppy play, cart pulling races and the body-body.
In a nearly plot-worthy situation, James finds his subservient position to Cora, the headmistress and director of Ironwood, rankling in the extreme. He's not a man who's comfortable with the female superior.
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Title: Ironwood Revisited by Don Winslow ISBN: 1562010603 Publisher: Blue Moon Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Best of Ironwood by Don Winslow ISBN: 1562013114 Publisher: Blue Moon Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Don Winslow's Victorian Erotica by Don Winslow ISBN: 1562013890 Publisher: Blue Moon Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Many Pleasures of Ironwood by Don Winslow ISBN: 1562014072 Publisher: Blue Moon Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Carrie's Story by Molly Weatherfield ISBN: 1573441562 Publisher: Cleis Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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