I can see her being upset that no one posted at RG about the problem with her post but I was too confused by it to figure out what she was really trying to say.
I have had the complete opposite reaction when reading male authors. I find the woman in the books are nothing but something pretty to look at and love? - meh. Lust, sure. If that isn't the case then I find the woman is on some sort of pedestal and is forever perfect. Meh.
I'm also getting tired of people calling romance brain candy - F***off already. There is crap in every single genre ever written - the secret is to try and avoid it.
Also, any time I have tried a best seller I find the whole book a watered down version of a story that could have been great if maybe something more had happened. I know there are people who loved the Da Vinci Code but am I ever glad I never read it because the movie proved to me just how pissed I would have been over info dumping. Oh!! Let's have one character that knows absolutely everything the protagonists need to know - blergh.
Haven't read it. Haven't seen the movie. I have friends who don't read who LOVED the book and keep trying to pawn it off on me. No thanks.
Part of me is sitting back and reading the comments, agreeing that there are a lot of heroines in romance that aren't that smart. But then I stop and think that there are a lot of people in life who aren't smart. So why is smart the most important quality in fiction? And beyond that, deciding what smart is is a tricky thing -- heroines that I thought were TSTL appeared on the AAR poll at Best Heroine. It's her opinion, and she makes no bones about it. But she's making a lot of value judgments that are specific to her tastes, and presenting them like hard facts. :shrugs: I posted, then left it alone.
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Date: 2007-03-10 06:40 am (UTC)I have had the complete opposite reaction when reading male authors. I find the woman in the books are nothing but something pretty to look at and love? - meh. Lust, sure. If that isn't the case then I find the woman is on some sort of pedestal and is forever perfect. Meh.
I'm also getting tired of people calling romance brain candy - F***off already. There is crap in every single genre ever written - the secret is to try and avoid it.
Also, any time I have tried a best seller I find the whole book a watered down version of a story that could have been great if maybe something more had happened. I know there are people who loved the Da Vinci Code but am I ever glad I never read it because the movie proved to me just how pissed I would have been over info dumping. Oh!! Let's have one character that knows absolutely everything the protagonists need to know - blergh.
Whoops.
Looks like I had an opinion.
Not sure on what ;)
CindyS
DaVinci Code
Date: 2007-03-10 08:04 pm (UTC)Part of me is sitting back and reading the comments, agreeing that there are a lot of heroines in romance that aren't that smart. But then I stop and think that there are a lot of people in life who aren't smart. So why is smart the most important quality in fiction? And beyond that, deciding what smart is is a tricky thing -- heroines that I thought were TSTL appeared on the AAR poll at Best Heroine. It's her opinion, and she makes no bones about it. But she's making a lot of value judgments that are specific to her tastes, and presenting them like hard facts. :shrugs: I posted, then left it alone.