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Old 06-03-2025, 06:43 PM   #3871
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Oh you mean the sort of books where it looks like a romance novel's cover except the man's skin s green to show he's an alien.
That sound similar to many recent YouTube story videos about humans and aliens. They seem to fall into two categories: (1) Aliens find out that you should leave humans alone*, and (2) a human man and a beautiful alien woman meet and fall in love.

*In one story aliens are terrified of a horrifying creature. Only the human is unafraid of the creature, it's an ordinary Earth housecat. In another, the aliens are terrified of a hydro weapon, and are shocked when a human drinks out of it: it's a bottle of water.
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Old 06-03-2025, 06:53 PM   #3872
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Funny-sounding genres are not unusual. The following are all music genres (all are listed in Wikipedia):
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And all rubbish.
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Old 06-03-2025, 06:56 PM   #3873
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I occasionally dip into the romance genre and have found many excellent romance novels. One of my favorites is Valentine Bachelors. In it, three men are sitting in a bar on New Year's Eve, none of them have dates. During a conversation with the Bartender, they hit upon the idea of advertising for a date in the Personals, and make a bet over who will have the best date. Let's just say that what happens with each of them is a surprise. It's the type of romance stories I like, set in the present and is a combination of romance and humor.
That sounds like an interesting book.

It's the sort of boiler plate romance that I don't like.
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Old 06-03-2025, 08:05 PM   #3874
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I'm guessing all those who sneer at and loathe romance have no time for that huge Yorkshire man with a beard like a rhododendron bush - Jane Austen. Especially since works like Persuasion (my 5-star fave) and Mansfield Park especially are mixed genres. I mean cutting social satire with soppy romance drivel? Ugh!
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Old 06-03-2025, 08:08 PM   #3875
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I'm guessing all those who sneer at and loathe romance have no time for that huge Yorkshire man with a beard like a rhododendron bush - Jane Austen. Especially since works like Persuasion (my 5-star fave) and Mansfield Park especially are mixed genres. I mean cutting social satire with soppy romance drivel? Ugh!
Jon hates Jane Austen. Romance, y'know...
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Old 06-03-2025, 09:48 PM   #3876
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That sounds like an interesting book.

It's the sort of boiler plate romance that I don't like.
It's basically a "Love Boat" type book. There's an opening scene which sets things up, three separate but related stories in the middle, and then a closing scene which ties everything up.

The kind of romance novels I don't care are ones that are set in the far past, say before the 20th Century.
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Old 06-03-2025, 09:59 PM   #3877
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The kind of romance novels I don't care are ones that are set in the far past, say before the 20th Century.
Those are the only type of romance I read.
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Old 06-04-2025, 11:42 AM   #3878
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I have a 800 megabyte PDF from a comic bundle I purchased. Only 106 pages, and not oversized pages. The other comics, around same length, are ~150 megabyte each. WTF?
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Old 06-04-2025, 12:19 PM   #3879
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When you're reading a bunch of two-star books, none being quite bad enough to abandon. A lot to get through before moving on to something (hopefully) good.
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Old 06-04-2025, 01:23 PM   #3880
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I see you've discovered Perry Rhodan!
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Old 06-04-2025, 03:58 PM   #3881
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Jon hates Jane Austen. Romance, y'know...
I don't mind the stories. I mind the writing.
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Old 06-04-2025, 05:00 PM   #3882
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I don't mind the stories. I mind the writing.
I can't help getting a Green Eggs and Ham vibe from your frequent disparaging comments about Pride and Prejudice. You don't know why you don't like it or why you think the writing's bad. Someday, someday, you'll be driven to pick up P&P (ran out of cereal boxes, maybe?) and you'll have your lightbulb moment.
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I see you've discovered Perry Rhodan!
LOL. SF mind candy I've read hundreds of them.
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Old 06-04-2025, 05:10 PM   #3884
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I see you've discovered Perry Rhodan!
I had to look him up.

Even the book covers made me think that two stars could be a stretch. But then you could get into "so bad it's good" territory, or at least funny in small doses.

And people wonder where to start with Pratchett....
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When everything you’re reading is pretty sloggish so you decide as a treat to start a book that should be absolute jam and it turns out to be mediocre.
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