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Romance novels rant
Aug. 18th, 2006 06:06 pmWork is crazily busy and “the fig tree does not blossom” EVERYWHERE. I am getting crazy too. In this post I am mostly ranting MUCH about romance novels. I apologise for ranting!!!! It is just me!
Note: By "romance" I don't speak of "epics written and recited in languages derived from Latin" as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lesbiassparrow explained. (Which is such cool thing to know - I still happy about that!!!!!)
About romance novels:
+ I love romance in books, I like it so much that my taste is not a little spoiled and I find it hard to like a book or a film without OTP. I am all about OTP and some character I can identify with – usually female. For example, BSG - I love Lee/Kara interaction and the show would not have captured me the same way without it.
+ Every time I am running low on OTP in films, I turn to romance novels. Which for me is like eating very cheap chocolate on empty stomach – It makes me sick at the end.
+ I have read a book by Georgette Heyer last night – “Regency Buck” I think. The book’s language was very strange for me. And some things were crazily dated, but I read somewhere that Georgette Heyer is very historically accurate. Is it true? Also it displayed many, many other common places of the romance novels which I don’t like.
Common places of the romance novels which I don’t like. Listed below:
??? Why or why this is so often exploited in romance literature: She hates him and then she finds his value an falls in loves with him. Why does heroine have to hate someone she met for the first time for usually unclear reason?
??? Most upsettingly, she often founds his value observing his beautiful palace, or walking on his beautiful grounds? Even my favourite “Pride and Prejudice” (which does not fit into the category of the romance novel for me) is not free from this as my husband keeps reminding me.
??? He usually undergoes a character 180 change over the course of the book. He is, for example, very rude and sort of cruel at the start, but later we find that he is very kind inside! In my short experience, guys who are rude to the women are cruel inside too. And humans don’t change THAT quickly.
??? She is usually good at something “male” – driving the carriage, for example
??? She is also usually bold and stroppy. This is a really flee-in-the-bonnet for me: Does woman have to be stroppy to capture the best guy? Why can’t she be delicate and understanding?
??? He is usually very good at EVERYTHING and intelligent to the bargain whilst managing to dress impeccably.
Ok, in the other news, rant aside everything is great and the sun is shining now after the today's long rain!!!!!!!!!!!
Note: By "romance" I don't speak of "epics written and recited in languages derived from Latin" as
lesbiassparrow explained. (Which is such cool thing to know - I still happy about that!!!!!)About romance novels:
+ I love romance in books, I like it so much that my taste is not a little spoiled and I find it hard to like a book or a film without OTP. I am all about OTP and some character I can identify with – usually female. For example, BSG - I love Lee/Kara interaction and the show would not have captured me the same way without it.
+ Every time I am running low on OTP in films, I turn to romance novels. Which for me is like eating very cheap chocolate on empty stomach – It makes me sick at the end.
+ I have read a book by Georgette Heyer last night – “Regency Buck” I think. The book’s language was very strange for me. And some things were crazily dated, but I read somewhere that Georgette Heyer is very historically accurate. Is it true? Also it displayed many, many other common places of the romance novels which I don’t like.
Common places of the romance novels which I don’t like. Listed below:
??? Why or why this is so often exploited in romance literature: She hates him and then she finds his value an falls in loves with him. Why does heroine have to hate someone she met for the first time for usually unclear reason?
??? Most upsettingly, she often founds his value observing his beautiful palace, or walking on his beautiful grounds? Even my favourite “Pride and Prejudice” (which does not fit into the category of the romance novel for me) is not free from this as my husband keeps reminding me.
??? He usually undergoes a character 180 change over the course of the book. He is, for example, very rude and sort of cruel at the start, but later we find that he is very kind inside! In my short experience, guys who are rude to the women are cruel inside too. And humans don’t change THAT quickly.
??? She is usually good at something “male” – driving the carriage, for example
??? She is also usually bold and stroppy. This is a really flee-in-the-bonnet for me: Does woman have to be stroppy to capture the best guy? Why can’t she be delicate and understanding?
??? He is usually very good at EVERYTHING and intelligent to the bargain whilst managing to dress impeccably.
Ok, in the other news, rant aside everything is great and the sun is shining now after the today's long rain!!!!!!!!!!!
