Forum: Story Recommendations

At the risk of a bit of self-promotion, my A Well-Lived Life series has about 6,000,000 words in 17 books of the story of an insecure protagonist who grows up...eventually.

I've read the first book in the series, and while I liked it and will probably get around to continue the series, I have to be in a certain mood to get into tear jerkers. And 12 of your 17 are tagged as such so I find it kind of daunting to get into that.

Perhaps I should change some of those tags, but there isn't one that says 'emotional'. :-)

Isn't romance inherently 'emotional'?

Tear Jerker by definition denotes a sad story or containing sad moments. Sad stories generally have unhappy endings.

I've read my way through every post that Michael Loucks has made in the Well Lived Life series. The goodly amount of introspection and angst is both scene-setting and real life. There is a reason he's been voted on so favorably in the last couple of awards cycles. Personally, I found it hit home was too often, of which I approve.

The closest to cheating I remember in Dance of a Lifetime involved the female lead being seduced into breaking up with the male lead. A few days later, she accepted a date with that seducer and ended up being raped.

While they were broken up the male lead discovered he could be a gigolo.

There is some swinging in the story.

How long are they broken up for? I mean, do they break up, do their own thing for a chapter, and then get together again, or is it the kind of thing where they spend a third of the story apart to learn how much they need each other?

Also does the swinging involve the female lead, or is this something he does while they're broken up and he discovers he can be a gigolo like you say?

If it does, I'll just not read this. I'm sure it's a great story, but when the female lead in stories consensually sleep with other men, it just triggers me.

They are broken up for about 10 chapters in a story that has 170. Timewise, it was for about two months in a story that covers ten years (except for the .

The male lead has sex with five other females and the female lead has sex with three other males (once while so drunk she doesn't remember anything that happened) during their breakup.

Two times there was swinging involving the lead couple it included another couple and the lead female had sex with the other male involved. While not swapping, the lead couple added a second female to their sexual relationship a couple of times.

The Consequences and Rewards of Playing Hooky

Change hooky to hockey, you get The Defenseman. By Cold Creek, several different books.

One for the laydeez - any man not wearing a chastity belt is insecure ;-)

Nope. A guy wearing a CB-3000 is pretty secure... ;)

I wouldn't use the term 'pretty'.

'Tiny', maybe.

'Tiny', maybe.

"Tiny secure...." Nope, not working for me. Then again it wouldn't, I don't have the right 'equipment'...

:)

Hmmm, looks unhygienic to me. But then I wasn't butchered to satisfy a thousands-of-years-old religious superstition.

Ok, you are officially weird. I post a link to a plastic cock lock and your first thoughts are hygiene and circumcision... Yet we are told that guys think about sex every seven seconds... Did you formulate your thoughts in a spare few seconds? Or do I really need to work on getting you laid. Again..

:)

I ain't climbing back inside no clucking chicken again.

Promise..??

I still cannot go back to that particular KFC without having to apologise again..!! Mostly because they had to close the kids play slide for a week just to get it cleaned up...

Sounds like AJ had some bowel related issues, there. Biological can be so...messy.

More like the chicken had bowel AND AJ-related issues. If it had occurred anywhere other than arkansas, AJ would've had legal issues.
;p

The worst part was being stuffed inside an egg. That was no yolk.

So that's why you looked shellshocked...!!

All that and you still didn't get laid... eggasperating..!!

The Bitch, an incomplete story by Mister NiceGuy certainly qualifies.

https://storiesonline.net/s/10990/the-bitch-romantic-sex-story

Thanks, loved the story, I hope that he will finish it!

He has posted 2 updates in past 2 weeks.

The Bitch, an incomplete story by Mister NiceGuy certainly qualifies.

Thank you

What's with the necroposting?

not sure if it's what you want, but I'm currently reading DotBs Car 54 where the main character is a strong character except where females are concerned, thus they often take advantage of him in different ways he learns to give into them until he gets what he wants.

https://storiesonline.net/s/46723/car-54

I'll bookmark it for now. I tried reading AfterShock by dotB earlier, but I thought that the protagonist acted in weird and unnatural ways, and it made it really hard to relate to him when you have to stop reading and ask "Why the hell did he do that? That doesn't make any sense!". So I've been hesitant to pick up his other work after that. I'll save it for a rainy day though.

That and the multiple partners tag are entirely centered around the male protagonist

I'm a bit confused. First you tell me to be aware that there's prostitution since I don't like female love interests having sex with others, then you say that the prostitution tag is entirely centered around the male.

So did you mean to warn me that the female love interest sleeps with others, or did you mean to reassure me that even though there is a prostitution tag, the female love interest will only be with MC and the tag refers to something MC is doing rather than the girl?

All you said about it was that it's not prostitution in the traditional sense, and that could mean a bunch of different scenarios really.