Posted on 02/02/2018 5:19:34 AM PST by C19fan
There are so many sub-genres of romance novel these days, you might find some you like. Especially if you like sci-fi and/or fantasy.
Romance novel: Girl sees boy. Boy ignores girl. Girl hates boy. Boy is nice anyway. They screw and have a lavish girlie dream wedding.
That's a great rule-of-thumb!
Aren’t they called “bodice rippers?”
Most women spend a lot of money on those clothes. Ripping them to expose the heaving bosom and assuage your rampant steed is probably not good policy when that top cost her $200. I guess it’s good that today’s ubiquitous workout clothes are pretty hard to rip.
I read a few from the 1970s by Kathleen Woodiwiss (”The Flame and the Flower”, etc.). All of the “heroes” forced themselves on the heroines repeatedly, beat or manhandled the heroines, and constantly made the heroines miserable and tearful through verbal abuse or flirting with some rival woman. But the heroine did end up loving the rogues and living happily ever after with them.
Very realistic (not).
I bet even gay men read gay romance for the strong handsome masculine guys.
What a mean and bitter old bitch Gloria Steinem has become.
My late wife subscribed to MS Magazine when it first came out. Gloria was a young and pretty woman back then.
She was also a former Playboy bunny. And she admitted she had an abortion. And even later admitted she let men who had things she wanted play inside her pantys.
Playboy bunny, man hater, feminist, all rolled into one really ugly package. And she ends up hanging out with women who are into Sharia law.
My wife let the MS Magazine subscription lapse because it was the women’s fantasy version of Playboy Magazine.
Steinem is stupid and payback is here already. May Allah have mercy on her soul.
I wrote to Edith and we became close friends. I built her a website and she would always send me her new books. I couldn’t tell her that they just weren’t up to her earlier ones. She actually dedicated one of her books to me! One of the parts of my website holds the memories of people I loved who are now gone. Edith is there.
http://www.iment.com/maida/friends/lostfriends.htm
Yeh I don’t know which romance novels she’s reading but some of the ones I read are pretty dark Not the kind of guys you want to meet at the water cooler every morning. LOL!
I head that 50 shades was about s&m and very poorly written. I’d be more likely to read racing forms all day than pick it up. I hate rape and s&m, not sexy at all, and more than that I hate poorly written dreck.
From fandom I can guarantee you that a large number of women also read gay romance. Of those that did (many sociologists among them means endless questionaires and polls), 1/3 were happily married, 1/3 single, and 1/3 gay.
Romance: Behavior that men fake in pursuit of getting laid.
Ugh, you guys are missing out on the best of life. In my experience sex (which is supposed to be pretty fun for both) precedes love and not always but it definitely hits men pretty hard. Yes. Men loving sex with women sometimes do end up in love. Sex is not an end in itself even for playas. Except Charlie Sheen but look at him.
She’s a liberal, so she met a gentleman 20 years older who wrote to her praising her newspaper letter. She is truly a really good writer. She’s ecstatically happy, though still liberal. And feels no need to write ever again.
I haven’t read a gay romance but I would, if it were about men. And well written. I really get the creeps from lesbian romance even with lesbian friends. I guess it’s like how straight men think two women together is sexier than when they picture two men going at it. It’s just how it is.
50 Shades is the only time I have ever violated it.
As I said, I haven’t read it and I wouldn’t read it. When I write fiction, I write adults making conscious choices. And NO nastiness. By the way, reading Trek fiction, most of the “harder” fiction came out of UK.
My former boss’s mom was a fan of “romance” novels
and he would always pick some up for her.
She told him, “Get the ones with RED covers, they
have more sex!”.
You’re right! I actually liked the movie, too, though I never quite got the fascination with Valentino. But the book was excellent.
Agree completely.
A great summary of the average romance plot.
This level of romance writing is great escape literature, almost as much fun as super hero special forces guys who endure excruciating pain, kill myriads of our nation's enemies, ravish hot women, and are gallant to a fault. Somehow romance is funnier because it is often the most unreal.
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