"George Alec Effinger - Slow, Slow Burn" - читать интересную книгу автора (Effinger George Alec)

locker combination, too! The problem with тАШSlow, Slow BurnтАЩ is

certainly not Honey's age. The problem is that my moddy library has

two full shelves devoted to her, and I'm beginning to ask myself, Do

I really need another Honey P├нlar moddy?

"Believe me, I've never had a complaint from anyone about her

moddies. My partners agree with me that they're likely to get more
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pleasure from Honey than from anyone else's moddyтАФor from me,

either, for that matter. Whether the moddy is turning my partner

into a hungry, writhing Honey P├нlar or consuming me in one of

Honey's recorded sexual fire storms, there's never any chance that

she will fail to perform.

"The question is simply this: How will she continue to keep our

interest? Her partner in тАШSlow, Slow BurnтАЩ is an uncredited

seventeen-year-old. As she gets older, must her partners get

younger? I'm dismayed by the vision of Honey P├нlar offering the kids

ten-speed bikes to entice them. And, for myself, doesn't a lifelong

relationship with three dozen plastic moddies begin to resembleтАФI

hate to suggest thisтАФa marriage?

"'Slow, Slow BurnтАЩ is right up to the standard Honey P├нlar has set

throughout her long and dazzling career. I guess it's just that after

all these years, I'm beginning to realize that although I've been to
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