Rahul, My Story

During high school, I read a lot of books. In fact, it was the Harry Potter and Goosebumps (I was only 13 then, give me a break!) books that got me hooked to reading. But students around me were always talking about a particular Sheldon and Grisham – my librarian had never mentioned such books to me. New to America, I was too scared to ask them to explain such things to me. Timpany (supposedly a very posh and ‘advanced’ school in Vizag) students also seemed to be very excited about those books.

When I came to IIIT I heard these terms again.

“Who is she and why is she so famous?”, I finally asked.
“Dude, Sidney is a guy!”
“Ohhhh”

Such was my state. Sivakumar, and later Bhaskara and Samba told me that Sidney Sheldon wrote very good thrillers of which few were a must read.

Finally, I got my hands on Bloodline. We were at the airport waiting for our flight when my sister finished reading it and gave it to me.

The suspense was building up at a very good rate when all of  a sudden, I read the following,

The cameraman turned to the spectator, questioningly, and the spectator nodded. The cameraman pressed a switch and the camera began to whir. He said to the actors, “All right. Action.”

The man knelt over the girl and she took his penis in her mouth until it began to grow hard. The girl took it out and said, “Jesus, that’s big!”

“Shove it in her.” the cameraman ordered.

The man slid down over the girl and put his penis between her legs.

“Take it easy, honey.” She had a high, querulous voice.

“Look as though you’re enjoying it.”

“How can I? It’s the size of a fuckine watermelon.”

I looked up and stared at my sister for a couple of seconds. Did she go through all this junk – more importantly, did I go through it after she had? And that, that particular moment, was THE most awkward moment in life till date.

And then it struck me why Sidney Sheldon’s books are so popular amongst teenagers. But what I still cannot understand is why are his books so freely available to kids in bookstores and libraries?

I see no difference between Savitha Bhabhi and Sidney Sheldon’s literotica!