Ash
--"The scenes in George RR Martin's series worked. The ones in Pillars of the Earth didn't.."
I agree with Ash and I also find that unlike the TV show Martin does not spend copious paragraphs in minute detail -He gets it right. I did enjoy reading Pillars but I skimmed his sex scenes.
But I had to laugh at the below descriptions after visiting that site.
"...uncovered, her nipple poking out, upturned like the nose of the loveliest nocturnal animal, sniffing in the night(are they having sex or hunting rabbits? lol

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.....He hooked his fingers into her waistband, caught the elastic of her underwear and began pulling down(are these Bridget Jones bloomers? lol

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Misfit
--""She was always the most fluid of women. He called it silky. She stood, half-lying, against the tree as he went so easily into her, penetrating the silkiest of women, entering the silkiest of girls."
Is the subject making love or sewing a skirt?lol

... All that 'silkiness'..Now that was eye rolling.
Another author that gets it wrong is Philippa Gregory and her worst book has to be The Wise Woman...The sex scenes were just too awful. I'd quote them but I threw the book away. I do enjoy her writing but when it comes to sex scenes she needs to learn less is best.
The writers I found who handle love scenes with finesse are Elizabeth Chadwick, Sharon Penman, George Martin & Susan Higginbotham...I think what these authors manage to do is to combine intimacy and at times humour in their love scenes which I think the reader enjoys, rather than the hardcore sexathons which read as unbelievable by the reader.
One of my favourite books of all time is 'Forever Amber' a very raunchy period in time and yet the author manages to convey so much without explicit detailing.
Anyway that is my two cents worth....
Bec

..PS: Misfit had me in stitches with those awful romantic quotes in another thread.
