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SBD -- Nothing
Sep. 18th, 2006 08:34 pmIt's Smart Bitches Day! Celebrate! Post something smart or snarky or gushing or whatever every strikes your fancy, then go tell Beth about it.
Me, I got nothing.
I picked a category (old, old Harlequin) out of the TBR mountain to read for AngieW's September reading challenge. Why this one? Because the name of the station was Jackalass. :snort: Jack-o-lantern, jackalope, Jacko, just the break down into either Jackal-Ass or Jack-a-Lass. It all cracked me up. Yeah, I'm easily entertained. Anyhow, I start reading it, and all I can say --stealing a phrase of Beth's here -- is holy crapola on a crap stick! Yes, it is old -- published in 1980 -- but ohmigod! dated! stereotypes! heroine dumber that a bag of rocks and hero so utterly sexist and abusive that he should be taken out and shot. I don't burn books, but am tempted to toss this one on the grill and splash on some lighter fluid!
Now, I've read some old, old HPs during my glom of Robyn Donald, dating back to 1978 I think. But this one is just about the most old fashioned romance (and not in a good way) that I've ever attempted to read.
And the cover? Even worse. Sort of cartoony in a seventies kind of way. Hot pink. And just think, someone paid more than the $0.10 I did for this book originally.
Off to bleach my eyeballs, then start Poison Study.
Me, I got nothing.
I picked a category (old, old Harlequin) out of the TBR mountain to read for AngieW's September reading challenge. Why this one? Because the name of the station was Jackalass. :snort: Jack-o-lantern, jackalope, Jacko, just the break down into either Jackal-Ass or Jack-a-Lass. It all cracked me up. Yeah, I'm easily entertained. Anyhow, I start reading it, and all I can say --stealing a phrase of Beth's here -- is holy crapola on a crap stick! Yes, it is old -- published in 1980 -- but ohmigod! dated! stereotypes! heroine dumber that a bag of rocks and hero so utterly sexist and abusive that he should be taken out and shot. I don't burn books, but am tempted to toss this one on the grill and splash on some lighter fluid!
Now, I've read some old, old HPs during my glom of Robyn Donald, dating back to 1978 I think. But this one is just about the most old fashioned romance (and not in a good way) that I've ever attempted to read.
And the cover? Even worse. Sort of cartoony in a seventies kind of way. Hot pink. And just think, someone paid more than the $0.10 I did for this book originally.
Off to bleach my eyeballs, then start Poison Study.
