Previous Saturday ratings-slayer Merlin, with its straight tales of chivalric knights, cannily featured more buff boy-flesh than a Soviet gymnasium.
The most recent contender is John LeFevre's "Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals," published in mid-July.
John LeFevre is the creator of the @GSElevator Twitter feed and the author of the soon-to-be-released Straight To Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals.
Frost knew that reading the poem as a straight morality tale ought to pose a number of difficulties.
Known to be miffed at being dismissed by those who considered his fear-inducing stories less than literary, Mr. Herbert veered away from straight horror tales and wrote books that edged into other genres, borrowing elements of fantasy, crime and supernatural stories.
The readers were transfixed not by the latest political scandal or account of parking violations (a Cairene preoccupation), but by a straight-talking tale of sex, lies and Islamism in the 'Mother of the World' - al Aswany's The Yacoubian Building.
For a brief moment I thought this book might be an ingenious, scared-straight-type tale about rave culture, but somehow the inclusion of the author's "graffiti name" doesn't really bespeak ingenuity.
If straight fairy tales throw obstacles between straight lovers witches, curses, sinking ships then maybe a queer one takes away the real ones so many of us face every day, so we can see, perhaps for the first time, a world without so much standing in the way of love.
Stumbling across Slurrup in the vinyl stacks at a charity shop would feel like a small miracle: it has guitar melodies that glow waxen yellow; chugging, Who-style riffs; zinging backwards chords; a meaty story straight out of Tales of the Unexpected and a tender murmur to a "pretty darling" who needs a morale boost.
Mr Straight told the tale to the FBI, and then confronted Blunt himself.
