I read Harold Robbins' "The Carpetbaggers" at a young age, though I can't seem to remember what the book was about...
certain scenes vaguely...
The next "biggie" was "The Pearl" (not the one by John Steinbeck)...
I also remember rec.arts.erotica and then alt.s.s, the latter of which is "housed" in a Repository....
Lot's of free stuff out there, including the White Shadow's Stories collection which I was able to spider into ebook form a long time ago! Just as an academic exercise...
