By Drew Grant 7/19/12 4:15pm

EBooks

'Pride & Prejudice,' minus zombies, plus dirty words (Clandestine Classics)

Read Excerpts From New Erotic E-Book Versions of Pride & Prejudice, Sherlock Holmes

Thank you, statute of limitations on copyrighted material! Clandestine Classics, a subsidiary of Total-E-Bound publishing, has rewritten five of those stuffy British novelsyou were forced to read in English class and turned them into poorly-spelled BDSM sex stories. Unfortunately, these e-rotica e-books won’t be available till July 30th (let the 12 day countdown begin!), but on the bright side, Clandestine has given readers a sneak peak to its 19th century knickers.

Let’s read some excerpts (which are NSFW…as much as words can be NSFW), shall we? Read More

By Christopher Rosen 4/17/09 4:00pm

Welcome Back, Rachel!

We can’t say we’re all that surprised that the return of Rachel McAdams has been met with decidedly few huzzahs—after all, on the list of under-the-radar actresses, she would rank near the top—but come on! Where is even the slightest display of giddiness? Here we are on Friday with her latest film, State of Play, Read More

By David Thomson 1/16/06 12:00am

The Case of the Sore Thumb— Elementary, My Dear Watson

For years, Julian Barnes has been not quite Nabokov or W.G. Sebald. Not quite there yet? Or not quite Julian Barnes? He’s been funny, chilled, sparkish, a dandyish surveyor of fiction and its tropes who often seems like a droll, finger-snapping ringmaster guiding his adroit innovations past literary statuary, picking up prizes, yet never entering Read More