Under Mr. Nolan's Bed (Revised) Paperback – June 8, 2011

“Under Mr. Nolan’s Bed” has been among my favorite pieces of porn for years, through its many rewritings getting around Amazon’s objections to its incestuous elements. Listening to it as an audiobook adds a whole new layer of pleasure.I have found that before, with read-aloud literature generally. There’s the skill of the narrator, using different voices for different characters. Pictures are drawn in your mind. And it forces you to slow down and consider each word, to smell the literary roses. Good readers who fly quickly over texts can miss out on word-for-word intensity as a result.Kitt calls this a fantasy, which it may be, but it hews so tightly to realities as to make it lifelike. There’s young Leah’s sexual awakening, her best friend Erica’s, Leah’s attraction to Erica’s stepdad Rob Nolan, the girls’ sexual imaginations being inflamed by the porn they find stashed under his bed. Yes, teenage girls may like this stuff too, and yes, a middle-aged widower may turn to it for relief. A careful avoidance of fantasy glamor, and a firm footing in the everyday world, make it ever more real.Mr. Nolan is carefully crafted to meet a young girl’s dreamboat checklist. He’s handsome, of course, well-endowed and a considerate lover. He’s responsible, having cared for Erica since her mother’s death despite not being her natural father. He’s a parent who helps out at school. He’s good to Erica. He’s fun. He has hardly dated since his wife’s death, showing class and sensitivity to not replacing her in Erica’s life too soon. Despite Leah’s overtures to him, he’s slow to cave, knowing he must be the adult, but he’s ultimately helpless before her willing offering of her newly blossomed (and just barely legal) charms. He’s never the sexual aggressor. We learn that he watched one piece of porn because of the girl's resemblance to Leah, and he breaks off a just-beginning relationship with a woman his own age because Leah is the one he really wants. And he loves her.Everyone’s sexual senses are whetted slowly. Nothing is too sudden. Because Leah practically lives with the Nolans, there are late-night encounters in the bathroom, there are sounds heard through walls, there is accidentally-spied-upon nudity, and more. The sex scenes are spectacular to begin with, and the audio version only enhances that.The book seems very real in Rob’s hesitation, his knowing how dangerous this is, particularly to his relationship with his stepdaughter. Erica is an interesting figure here: sexually bold and exploratory, more so than Leah, the one leading Leah into trying taboo new things, but meanwhile oblivious to what's transpiring between Rob and Leah, until suddenly she learns.The story has gone through various permutations - whether Rob is Erica’s natural father or stepfather and other, loaded elements to the back story. I need to note: the audiobook version here does not have the same ending as the corresponding text version in my Kindle library. The audiobook reverts to what I believe is the original book’s darker ending, which I’ve read but is no longer available on Amazon. The text version does not.“The Nolan Trilogy” is a vast expanding of the series’ Catholic angle, removing the story from the sexually permissive current era to the repressed 1950s. It adds various subplots involving the CIA, the Cold War, and the Church. Perverted priests mount weird sexual rites involving specially designated girls. Nasty nuns abet that and run hellish homes for pregnant teens, selling their babies into adoption for hefty church profit.I lost track of all the twists and turns involving the girls’ parentage in that one, plus their own mothers’ pasts with the priests. Plus she doesn’t add enough sex scenes (enjoyable ones, anyway) to make it worth the perverted reader’s while.The various single volume present-day versions are more to my taste, getting more to the sexual point and eschewing the politics.There’s a mild feminist undertone here, like a lot of Kitt’s work, but I usually don’t mind it. Women are allowed to be sexual and initiate sex, in response to any social expectation that they not be (expectations long demolished, in my opinion, but whatever), while men, to be seen as desirable mates, need to hold their sexuality in check, and be the responsible ones, the ones who say no or try to, and are never the initiators. Only the girls get to do that.Kitt’s male characters do seem too idealized to me - Nolan here, Doc Baumgartner in the Baumgartner series trilogy, among those I’ve read. The only one who isn’t - David in “Naughty Bits”, also redone several times - is young and immature, malleable enough to be shaped by the women in his life. Another feminist fantasy.

Under Mr. Nolan's Bed Revised Version Review: In my opinion this is one creepy book. In my opinion this is like a book version of a porn movie. Most of it made me laugh. All the characters Erica, Rob and Leah have no control. It was just too over the top for me.

I got the "revised" edition which is a freebie on Amazon and I stayed with it. If my eyelids weren't dragging down I could've read this in one sitting. Given my 5-star rating, I obviously enjoyed it because when it comes to same sex couplings, I'm partial to ff than mm.It has pseudo incest which I've read about, and the author clearly has a note at the beginning of the book so I read this with an open mind. There has been a time when Amazon removed the erotica in their site, and before that I was able to get a free collection on Daddy-Daughter stories, which all involves pseudo incest, which means that the characters aren't biologically related, they just had (yes, the mother passed away already) a parent-child relationship before.For those who are into the taboo and unconventional, this is for you. It's most definitely not for everyone and like Ms Kitt mentioned in her note, they are just fantasies. If ever the readers want to make that a reality, that's solely up to them.I just had to get that out before going on to my review.This story has a lot of sex in it. You might want to think there's no story at all, just pornography in writing. That may be true for some but I still appreciated the dynamic between the best friends Leah and Erica, and Mr Nolan (Rob) and Erica. Though some scenes were redundant (in terms of erm...positions), I reconciled it with the situation, and convenience for them to do their thing.I read a review that says something like this is "a train wreck waiting to happen, and I just can't help but read it". It's one of those books. The only thing I'm spoiling here is there's sex in every chapter and surprisingly it still works. The ending was a little rushed though, after all that has happened. There's also a lot of foreshadowing and questions raised in the very latter part of the book.Still, this revised edition encouraged me to buy a boxed set on Amazon.

Selena Kitt is kind of known for doing things that other people wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. This novel is no exception. While there are incidents in this book that, in any normal circumstance, would NOT be "sexy" in real life, Selena has a way of building character and plot so that these often-times "ewwy" subjects, turn out to be incredibly hot. That takes some serious skill... because, probably just like you, I'm not generally "into" the subject matter Kitt approaches here (I'm speaking of the incestuous elements), but somehow they were just hot.I loved this book because it does something that novels should do: It allows us to experience a different life... do things we would never do... and just melt into a story. Kitt's execution of story rivals many of the "mainstream brick and mortar" authors on the market today.There is a scene with these two friends having a breaking moment in the rain that was so vividly and beautifully described that I totally fell into the story and forgot where I was at for a long period of time. Astounding.The sex scenes are hot... although, keep in mind there are a TON of them in the book. So, this is a good thing if that's what you want, but I did find myself wanting to itch back into the plot when a few of those kinds of scenes got mashed together. Then again, I did read this novel in two days, so my own pacing was off (May be better in smaller doses).If the topic of this book horrifies you initially--as it did with me--at least read a sample of it, and you may just be surprised."A" freakin' plus.

I thought this was a far better book that the rather teasing publicity and cover images suggested. There was a well-written and intelligent story, not simply a series of sexual encounters. The relationship between the two teenage friends was nicely conveyed. The confusion and emotional turmoil felt by the first-person character was nicely shown, and certainly plausible enough. I felt a bit like slapping Mr Nolan for not being as thoughtful and considerate towards her as he perhaps could have been, but this is erotica rather than romance and that was just part of the story. And some of the sex in particular was something I'd kinda like to try out for myself.

I've heard good things about Selena Kitt, but what you hear about an author is not always necessarily true, or it doesn't always apply to you. I was not disappointed with the sex scenes. They were totally amazing. But I felt as though there could have been more to the story, I know its erotica, but it was all sex all the time. I would definitely try out more of her work though.

Once again another fantastic story from Selina. How does she do it, coming up with those superb story lines not to mention the hot hot hot sex

Yes, we all have those dirty little secret books, and this one hit almost every one - two teenage best friends, a sidelined boyfriend and sexy step-dad and a tonne of sexual experimentation!! Okay, so not sold on the Daddy issues, but not disgusted by it, and it was only a small partOkay, so Erica and Leah are buddies from forever, they break into Erica's dad's porn collection and start with masturbation in the same room. Erica has experimented with her boyfriend but still remains a virgin. Leah is completely attracted to Erica's dad, and after watching him with his porn collection moves from spying to acting on her attraction, while still exploring matters with Erica as well.Predictably, Erica finds out what her best buddie and Dad have been up to, and is very angry, but once her boyfriend dumps her, she turns to her best friend. Leah's mom catches a glimpse of what might be happening, and a school trip has taboo's happening all over the place.Finally, a twist at the end, not so much a shocker as a twist, and the story isn't complete?? I went into this believing at the end the story was done, but their are two more books to finish it off, wish I had known!!!The book was all about sexual encounters, but we did get some character development on Leah throughout. Erica and Mr Nolan are explained with their interactions with her, but nothing on them specifically

This is a quite graphic novel. It may not be everyone's cup of tea but, it is a exemplary example of this genre of book. Selena Kitt knows what her audience wants and she certainly gives it to them!