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Old 08-17-2009, 06:29 AM   #46
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An who decided to make Vampire's + Boddice rippers "the new black"????

Vampires aren't sexy, they are evil beings that needs to be staked, decapitated and burned!
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Old 08-17-2009, 06:49 AM   #47
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An who decided to make Vampire's + Boddice rippers "the new black"????

Vampires aren't sexy, they are evil beings that needs to be staked, decapitated and burned!
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Old 08-17-2009, 06:52 AM   #48
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An who decided to make Vampire's + Boddice rippers "the new black"????

Vampires aren't sexy, they are evil beings that needs to be staked, decapitated and burned!
Phwoar! You sound like an old-fashioned uber-feminist talking about men...

(and before anyone gets horribly offended, that's not anti-feminist, I'm the most feminist gal I know )
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Old 08-17-2009, 06:58 AM   #49
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Phwoar! You sound like an old-fashioned uber-feminist talking about men...

(and before anyone gets horribly offended, that's not anti-feminist, I'm the most feminist gal I know )
None taken... Since I am in fact male, I consider it a compliment to sound feminist

Is just that I have a hard time with the latest craze that books with a "paranormal" subject seems to be required to have smut in them.
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Is just that I have a hard time with the latest craze that books with a "paranormal" subject seems to be required to have smut in them.
I blame Laurell K. Hamilton for that...
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I blame Laurell K. Hamilton for that...
Tsk, tsk, tsk... No sexier vamp than don Ysidro (Barbara Hambly). And sorry, Laurell K. Hamilton and romance, no, no, no (smut I don't know )
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Old 08-17-2009, 08:21 AM   #52
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I don't like mushy either
Then what's left between erotica/porn and mushyness? I think it's perhaps because I find romance predictable and somewhat clichéed, and that might be exactly what attracts others (and I'm not dissing it, it's just not for me )
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Is just that I have a hard time with the latest craze that books with a "paranormal" subject seems to be required to have smut in them.
'Latest'? Vampires have been sexy since Anne Rice's novels, and they're from the, what?, early eighties or so? Granted, it is more homo-eroticism than heterosexual 'smut', but that's fine with me
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Then what's left between erotica/porn and mushyness? I think it's perhaps because I find romance predictable and somewhat clichéed, and that might be exactly what attracts others (and I'm not dissing it, it's just not for me )
That's OK, what a boring world if everybody likes the same
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Then what's left between erotica/porn and mushyness? I think it's perhaps because I find romance predictable and somewhat clichéed, and that might be exactly what attracts others (and I'm not dissing it, it's just not for me )

'Latest'? Vampires have been sexy since Anne Rice's novels, and they're from the, what?, early eighties or so? Granted, it is more homo-eroticism than heterosexual 'smut', but that's fine with me
Ok, so we blame the whole thing on Mrs Rice then?
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Old 08-17-2009, 09:39 AM   #55
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What is one person's "smut" is another person's idea of romantic human relations. I like to read Harlequin romances for the escapism factor and the fact that their books are quick reads (when you have 3 kids, time is definitely an issue). I stopped reading the Blaze series because the books have gotten so raunchy in the last couple of years. I don't mind sex scenes, but I prefer more story line than sex scenes that last 20 pages. There are all kinds of levels between the raunchy and the uber-mushy, though, even in the Harlequin/Silhouette line of books.

As for predictability, of course they are, that's what you expect when you pick up a romance novel.

Slite, I'm not crazy about the Vampire stuff, either. The thought of someone sucking out my blood, no matter how erotic it may be written, just creeps me out.
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Old 08-17-2009, 09:51 AM   #56
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Vampires have been "sexy" for a while now - however, what was once edgy and new has since become clichéd and annoying.

I've never considered vampires sexual in the least - and books which focus on their sexuality generally leave me cold. I feel the same way about historical romances - western or otherwise - they leave me cold. My partner gobbles them up like candy - she'll read two or three in a weekend.

So for me, they're just books that some people like and others don't. They sell well (can't escape the former bookseller mindset) so that's more than enough reason for people to write them.
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'Latest'? Vampires have been sexy since Anne Rice's novels, and they're from the, what?, early eighties or so? Granted, it is more homo-eroticism than heterosexual 'smut', but that's fine with me
Vampires have been sexy since DRACULA, IMO.

And I happen to LOVE reading erotica and even porn. There, I said it.

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Vampires have been "sexy" for a while now - however, what was once edgy and new has since become clichéd and annoying.

I've never considered vampires sexual in the least - and books which focus on their sexuality generally leave me cold. I feel the same way about historical romances - western or otherwise - they leave me cold. My partner gobbles them up like candy - she'll read two or three in a weekend.

So for me, they're just books that some people like and others don't. They sell well (can't escape the former bookseller mindset) so that's more than enough reason for people to write them.
Some people (most) write them because they LIKE them.
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Sheridan Le Fanu's 'Carmilla' was pretty sexy; and that was published in 1872.
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Sheridan Le Fanu's 'Carmilla' was pretty sexy; and that was published in 1872.
I had completely forgotten about that one. Found it as download here at MR

BTW, didn't there used to be a 'search ebooks' input field/functionality in the E-Books dropdown list in the blue bar at the top?
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I had completely forgotten about that one. Found it as download here at MR

BTW, didn't there used to be a 'search ebooks' input field/functionality in the E-Books dropdown list in the blue bar at the top?
Get to the page with the list of latest uploads and the "search ebooks" is on that blue bar, Ea.
It works best with just the author's surmane, or the title.
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