Anonymous
08/20/2024 21:02
Subject: Fiction where tattoos feature in a big way
I read this as "Taboo" and I had a long list.
Anonymous
08/19/2024 21:39
Subject: Fiction where tattoos feature in a big way
Anonymous wrote:Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's dart. It's a historical fiction set in medieval Europe with an elaborate court society and religion around a pantheon of angel demi-gods, and the protagonist is a kinky woman dedicated to masochistic worship in honor of a goddess-whore.
Each house has it's own version of worship and it's own tattoo. The completed tattoos are the mark of indentured courtesans fulfilling their debts.
It's also just really good fantasy fiction
Thanks. I am trying to stay within the literature range but this sounds worth a look.
Anonymous
08/19/2024 19:12
Subject: Fiction where tattoos feature in a big way
Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel's dart. It's a historical fiction set in medieval Europe with an elaborate court society and religion around a pantheon of angel demi-gods, and the protagonist is a kinky woman dedicated to masochistic worship in honor of a goddess-whore.
Each house has it's own version of worship and it's own tattoo. The completed tattoos are the mark of indentured courtesans fulfilling their debts.
It's also just really good fantasy fiction
Each house has it's own version of worship and it's own tattoo. The completed tattoos are the mark of indentured courtesans fulfilling their debts.
It's also just really good fantasy fiction
Anonymous
08/18/2024 09:24
Subject: Fiction where tattoos feature in a big way
Anonymous wrote:Tattoos play an important part of the plot in The Garden of Evening Mists.
Thank you for directing me to this one. I just read the first 30 pp on Amazon and will get a copy. It's unusual in that the narrative voice is 1st person and the story told in present tense. It took a minute for me to wrap my head around.
Anonymous
08/18/2024 09:00
Subject: Fiction where tattoos feature in a big way
Tattoos play an important part of the plot in The Garden of Evening Mists.
Anonymous
08/17/2024 20:10
Subject: Fiction where tattoos feature in a big way
Anonymous wrote:There is a John Irving book that fits. Until I Find You.
This looks great and I found a copy for $4 from abehbooks!
Anonymous
08/17/2024 19:41
Subject: Fiction where tattoos feature in a big way
Thank you so much for your responses - so helpful!
Anonymous
08/17/2024 18:11
Subject: Fiction where tattoos feature in a big way
Prison break
Anonymous
08/17/2024 17:45
Subject: Re:Fiction where tattoos feature in a big way
Anonymous
08/17/2024 17:37
Subject: Fiction where tattoos feature in a big way
There is a John Irving book that fits. Until I Find You.
Anonymous
08/17/2024 17:35
Subject: Fiction where tattoos feature in a big way
Business Casual by BK Borison - the main character is opening a tattoo studio. It’s the fourth book in a series and she’s in earlier books (her brother is the MMC in an earlier book and he let her work on him when she was getting started). They’re romcoms with some spice.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199252912
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199252912
Anonymous
08/17/2024 17:17
Subject: Re:Fiction where tattoos feature in a big way
One of the books in John Burdett's series -- Bangkok Tattoo. It's the second in a very good series. The first is Bangkok 8. But the second one is the one that features tattooing very prominently.
Anonymous
08/17/2024 17:10
Subject: Fiction where tattoos feature in a big way
So I am looking for stories or novels where tattoos or tattooing is a major feature, rather than an incidental one.
So far I've got
Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man
The Tattooist of Auchwitz
Books like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo aren't about the tattoo enough, even though it is in the title.
Would love to know if anyone could think of other stories / novels
So far I've got
Ray Bradbury's The Illustrated Man
The Tattooist of Auchwitz
Books like The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo aren't about the tattoo enough, even though it is in the title.
Would love to know if anyone could think of other stories / novels