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| Books & Authors Recommended and not so recommended reading. |
12-19-2006, 11:58 AM
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Who likes romance novels?
I just love them! At the library down the street from my school, they have free books sitting outside, so I took eight romance books. lol I still have yet to read them because of all the other stuff I want to read. lol Plus, there's the fact that Christmas is coming up and the house is a mess! Stupid four sister! She makes the biggest mess!
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12-23-2006, 12:35 AM
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It depends on the plot... But I admit, I'm a sucker for them, heh.
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12-23-2006, 11:27 PM
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I read them occasionally, yay for books that I don't have to think through while reading. Some aren't that bad.
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12-24-2006, 05:11 AM
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Are we talking, like, Pride & Prejudice? Or the kind of cheap paperbacks with a greasy and muscular Mediterranean guy on the cover?
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12-24-2006, 10:09 AM
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I think most are the lowest form of fiction.
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12-24-2006, 11:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Zerath
I think most are the lowest form of fiction.
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Oh Contraire!
There are some GREAT romance novels out there, and the whole genre is changing rapidly. The Outlander series (Diana Gabladon) for example, is fantastic writing, accurate historical settings and a totally believable time shifting premise.
Sara Donati's Lake in the Clouds series takes up the story of the Last of the Mohicans’s and really makes the story move.
Viva Anna's Hell Kat, makes good use of the a post-apocalyptic setting. But hold on to your hat, cause the language and sex is not for beginners!
Karen Marie Moning has a totally entertaining series of time shifting, 6 foot 4 inch 240 pound Highlanders, all with huge….broadswords : )
The whole genre is long past the bodice ripping Fabio days! The C, F and P words are used often, the sex is not imagined, but described in detail and throw in some espionage or murder and you've got one of the newest forms of the genre, the intrigue romance.
Its a wide open market right now, it sells like hotcakes and publishers are clamoring for good writing in the genre.
Read some of the newer stuff. I think you'd be pleasantly surprised. |
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12-24-2006, 02:52 PM
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I can't say I like the entirely romance novels, but I'm a fan of the Princess Bride which is more of an adventure/comedy/romance, and a great book with something most people end up liking something about.
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12-24-2006, 09:25 PM
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There's romance novels that are between Pride and Prejudice, and with the stupidly hunky men on the cover. Ie, the movie Must Love Dogs came from a great, simple romance novel.
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12-24-2006, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Zerath
I think most are the lowest form of fiction.
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12-24-2006, 11:58 PM
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Well, what do you expect? What do women DO when they read romance novels? They touch themselves (some men, too). Romance novels are just like porn. And a lot of them are, pretty much, porn.
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12-25-2006, 12:12 AM
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Not all romance novels are porn... anything outside the hunky men on the cover generally isn't as bad.
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'Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap. And he, a little charleychaplin man, who may or may not catch her fair eternal form spreadeagled in the empty air of existence.' - Laurence Felinghetti, 'The Acrobat'
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12-25-2006, 12:14 AM
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But apparently, at the end of the day, it's alright for men to look at porn and play with themselves and etc, but it's not alright for women to read it and touch themselves. That's typical.
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'Beauty stands and waits with gravity to start her death-defying leap. And he, a little charleychaplin man, who may or may not catch her fair eternal form spreadeagled in the empty air of existence.' - Laurence Felinghetti, 'The Acrobat'
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12-25-2006, 12:30 AM
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pliable
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Oh no, it's plenty alright for women to. It's just not alright for them to deny it. Thanks for making an ass of you and me, though.
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12-25-2006, 01:46 AM
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You do that just fine on your own hodge.
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12-25-2006, 03:19 PM
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Sounds to me like one should READ a few recently published romances before one denigrates the genre in total.
It's easy to say romance novels suck...goes down well in literary circles and all.
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