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Originally Posted by HarryT
Probably no more, so, than Mills and Boone romances, which sell in their millions. Heck - probably hundreds of millions altogether.
Reading is entertainment. If it's fun to read, does it have to have literary merit? "Literary fiction" obviously has its place, but so does "fluff".
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Exactly. I can't tell you how many times I've gone to Goodreads to rate the latest M&B / Harlequin I've consumed and see a really low rating with a review discussing the book's lack of literary merit. I'm confused that anyone would expect to find that in an MMFFF (that would be "mass-market fluff for females", no insult intended to any males that also enjoy them).
Fluff definitely has its place - in my case, that place would be anywhere within easy reach.
The worst book I've read? I won't mention any names, but it was a collection of erotic shorts by a man who apparently has spent very little time in the presence of real-live women. The sex in that book was an anatomical train wreck, and the dialog was right out of an uninformed teenager's fantasy. Sentence structure was horrific.
I didn't rate it, review it or even list it in my books on GR. I suspected it may well have been written by a shy, fragile 18-year old, and I decided to let someone else be the bad guy.