Eat Me: A Novel

Linda Jaivin is a fantastic writer. Her works range from this women's erotica, to serious literature (A Most Immoral Woman), to history (Shortest History of China). Highly recommend all of her books.

If you need a good raunchy laugh and are not the type to blush easily, this book is for you!

A breath of fresh air in the subject of erotism in the literary world. Erotic literature seems to produce bad stories that can only keep the reader's attention throughout an escalation that degrades sex, erotism and fantasy, not to mention the regular use of bad language. Eat me is wonderful. It adds humour. Lots of it, plus it involves a lot of the human element. I loved it. I recommend it.

My book club recently read this book. I can't believe a publisher would even publish this. Everyone in our book group hated the book!!! The story was boring and predictable, except for the first 7 pages which I thought was origional. The other 209 pages was just painful to read. I did not enjoy any of the characters. I have seen better erotica from a Jackie Collins novel. Save your money do not buy this book.

This is a very entertaining story about a young female writer. She is writing erotica for woman and basing most of it on her friends. This story takes you through the lives of a number of thirty something lady with very active imaginations as well as sex lives. A laugh a minute - and don't let the first chapter freak you out. I was wondering what in the hell I had bought when I read it.

Linda Jaivin, Eat Me (Broadway, 1997)I once defined chick lit as small green squares which lose their flavor in a remarkably small amount of time, and should then be spit out. Why do I continue trying to read this stuff? Your guess is as good as mine. In any case, Eat Me fits the general definition quite nicely.This is the story of four Australian thirtysomething women who spend most of their free time eating, having sex, thinking about food, thinking about having sex, or some combination of the above. While this generally makes for amusing novels from a company like Beeline, it doesn't make for engrossing mainstream lit. If you combine the Lifetime network with the Playboy channel, someone might manage to get a TV adaptation of this going, and it would fit right in with the general level of intelligence, depth, and complexity found in the movies broadcast by both, but if you're looking for a book to sink your teeth into, look elsewhere. On the other hand, if you're looking for shallow, gratuitous sex with a bit of food writing on the side, you may find this a perfect way to kill a few hours. **

Although this book is about two of my favorite things--food and sex--it was a little hard to swallow, for lack of a better term. The opening chapter is well-written and sexy, but the book falls apart soon after.The main characters are four women who eat food, have sex, and do little else worth mentioning. They're interchangable, forgettable variations on one another, and Jaivin's attempt to emphasize each one as she goes about her business inevitably chops what could be a good novel into a collection of erotic vignettes and dialogues, with a whole lot of filler in between.Is there a plot? After reading it once, I'm not sure, and in all honesty I'm not inclined to go back and find out.It's sexy at times, and it's funny at times, and Jaivin clearly has potential. But the book, neither memorable nor believable, misses its mark. Although not quite nauseating, "Eat Me" is unappetizing, a bit rough on the digestive system, and nutritionally void.

As far as commercial erotica goes, journalist and scholar Linda Jaivin's debut novel Eat Me is a unique excursion into the world of sensual tastes. It's 9 1/2 Weeks in a supermarket, an uninhibited look into the joys of calorie-laden, chocolate-coated ecstasy direct from the Land Down Under.Unlike the array of gothic, violent erotic fiction that seems to be crowded shelves these days, Eat Me is upbeat, at time hilarious (a letter-switching incident comes to mind) and baffling (you'll never watch David Letterman the same way again, I guarantee it). Jaivin writes a playful, sexy novel hotter than jalepeno and as smooth as French Silk pie. Jaivin takes the eroticism of food to a new level with Eat Me and is certain to leave many mouths watering.