Topic 13 of 47: romance novels
Thu, Jan 16, 1997 (14:26) |
Carolyn Simnett (clueless)
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I was wondering if anyone read them around here 'cause my ant is Catherine Coulter if you've ever heard of them. I think that we nead a new topic.
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Topic 13 of 47 [books]: romance novels
Response 1 of 40: Carolyn (clueless) * Thu, Jan 16, 1997 (14:30) * 1 lines
look I'm clueless but if you want to EMAIL me please go to nodoubtchick@hotmail.com I don't know how to access my clueless mail at spring.com
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Response 2 of 40: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Jan 18, 1997 (17:49) * 8 lines
We can fix you up and you'll be clueless no more when it comes to email.
We can make you 'clueful'. Email me
mailto://terry@spring.com
and I'll fill you in on all the fascinating details.
You're so, so, clueless, sometimes.
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Response 3 of 40: Caroline (Carolineevans) * Mon, Jan 27, 1997 (20:39) * 1 lines
Yes, I will admit to reading romance novels. On the quiet. When no-one else is looking.Last one was "Once a Knight" by Christina Dodds. Very funny.Good escapism.
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Response 4 of 40: chen jiaxin (chenjiaxin) * Thu, Mar 13, 1997 (06:44) * 5 lines
HI I AM NEW HERE AND I AM JOINING ALL OF YOU FROM PR.CHINA
IF YOU REA THE WURTHERING HEIGHTS
PLS DO REVERT ME
I WANT TO TALK WITH YOU
THKS
Topic 13 of 47 [books]: romance novels
Response 5 of 40: chen jiaxin (chenjiaxin) * Thu, Mar 13, 1997 (06:45) * 5 lines
HI I AM NEW HERE AND I AM JOINING ALL OF YOU FROM PR.CHINA
IF YOU REA THE WURTHERING HEIGHTS
PLS DO REVERT ME
I WANT TO TALK WITH YOU
THKS
Topic 13 of 47 [books]: romance novels
Response 6 of 40: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Mar 13, 1997 (20:14) * 1 lines
Welcome Chen!
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Response 7 of 40: Kaye Erickson (Mkaye) * Sat, Aug 16, 1997 (17:13) * 1 lines
Hi: I write, don't sell much, have trouble giving it away but--a writer must read and I find the romance genre absolute divel. When you've read one you've read them all. Why don't you guys/gals try some of the stuff out there with more meat. Try The Book of Ruth, forget the authors name, but if you want romance you'll find it all in this wonderful book Hi Chen! been all over China and love you country and your people.
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Response 8 of 40: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sat, Aug 16, 1997 (22:18) * 1 lines
Are you going to post some excerpts of your work in the writers conference?
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Response 9 of 40: arthamom (arthamom) * Sun, Jan 4, 1998 (11:14) * 2 lines
Hi! I'm new. I read all kinds of fiction--at least I used to, before I had a son 20 months ago. I also keep my romance reading quiet. I can't explain why it's so comforting, but predictability has something to do with it. I read more sophisticated things, too, but romance is the chicken noodle soup of literature for me; if I'm tired, sad, stressed, it doesn't demand much of me, and there are a few authors who can make me laugh...that's the most important thing. I also read young adult fiction when I need
omfort. I worked in bookstores for about ten years and started out--right out of college--completely oblivious to anything contemporary...I would have classed anything written since Virginia Woolf died as "drivel". My customers taught me that there are good books in every genre and that I love people who read!
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Response 10 of 40: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Mon, Jan 5, 1998 (18:15) * 1 lines
I, too, am a novice in the romance genre, but based on a recommendation somewhere in cyberspace, I gave Diana Gabaldon's "Outlander" a try. By the time I finished this novel I felt like layers of plaque had been scraped off my heart! There are 2 sequels I can't wait to read, but they're both checked out right now, so I'll have to reserve them another time.
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Response 11 of 40: Martha Livingston (arthamom) * Mon, Jan 5, 1998 (20:09) * 2 lines
I blush! I stammer! I wasn't going to confess it, but I'm reading "The Drums of Autumn" (the forth in the Outlander series) right now. I really like the multi-dimensional characters, and I like the fact that the story doesn't end when Claire and Jamie have sex or get married, or whatever the end of romance is supposed to be. They have adventures together! I like the fact that they rescue each other and that Claire is brave and smart and that she and Jamie share their joys and sadnesses and get cross with
ach other and then can't keep their hands off of each other--now that's romance! ...and you've gotta love all that scottish detail!
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Response 12 of 40: Wolf (Wolf) * Mon, Jan 5, 1998 (21:23) * 5 lines
Belva Plain's Evergreen and Fern Michaels' Desperate Measures. Very good.
It doesn't matter what happens in the end (unless everybody dies-Titanic) but
what happens between the covers (of the book). But I refuse to read any of
those dimestore paperbacks like Harlequin Romance, to me, they're just plain
dumb (no offense to anybody who likes them).
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Response 13 of 40: Martha Livingston (arthamom) * Tue, Jan 6, 1998 (00:22) * 2 lines
I've never read Belva Plain or Fern Michaels, but it'll be nice to add them to my mental list for escape fiction. Have either of you read any Georgette Heyer? My sister owns every book she ever wrote, romance and mystery both, and I go for a raid once or twice a year when I'm in just the right mood. Her books are sweet and mannered regency romances with girls dressed as servant boys and smoldering viscounts and a lot of wit and charm. Not a lot of sex. Not that I object to sex in general, but it gets to
be like the exhaustive descriptions of whaling in Moby Dick...maybe I'm getting old, but I find myself skipping over the sex scenes (his throbbing manhood, her sensual core, yada, yada) to find out what the character will say next. I agree about the Harlequins, Wolf, but there have been dark days in my life when all I could do was roll over and eat an oreo and pick up another one. They serve a purpose, but it's nothing like education or enlightenment--more like sedation.
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Response 14 of 40: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Wed, Jan 7, 1998 (12:56) * 1 lines
I read one Georgette Heyer, "Charity Girl", because I heard that her regency tone closely echoed Jane Austen's. It was pretty good--can you recommend other titles of hers that you especially liked? The library has a bunch of them. So, 'fess up, did you skip the sex scenes in "Outlander?" While reading one afternoon,I was supposed to go to my daughter's kindergarten class to help them make xmas cookies, but there was no way I was leaving the house until they consummated that marriage!
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Response 15 of 40: Wolf (Wolf) * Wed, Jan 7, 1998 (21:26) * 1 lines
*giggle*
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Response 16 of 40: Martha Livingston (arthamom) * Wed, Jan 7, 1998 (23:31) * 5 lines
You'll never believe me if I say I can't remember the sex in Outlander!
I just flipped through it, though, and found a scene where Jamie discovers that the woman can be on top--is that sweet or what? I don't find the sex scenes a hindrance in Gabaldon's books, I think, because they're character driven. In the formula romances, I swear there's a quota of heaving whatsises, and it's just boring. (gulp.) I think I'm confessing to a familiarity with the genre that I'd rather not reveal to people I don't know...I'm feeling a sudden urge to adjust my glasses and use big words and
mply that my interest in romances is purely clinical.
I hate to admit this, too, but I don't exactly have a favorite Georgette Heyer...they kind of run together in my head. I think my sister's favorite is called "Friday's Child", and it seems to me there was one called "The Devils Cub" which was a sequel...the father of the "Cub" was the dangerous and dashing hero of an earlier book. I love sequels and series...
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Response 17 of 40: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Thu, Jan 8, 1998 (21:15) * 5 lines
Well, "Dragonfly in Amber" was on the shelf today! But, gulp, it's nearly 800 pages long...of course, if I can't put it down I'll finish it in no time! I also checked out the Fern Michaels one. Another 400 pages!
I have not read other romances to be familiar with the formula, but if it's anything like the formula mystery writers--well, read one you've read 'em all...
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Response 18 of 40: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Fri, Feb 27, 1998 (22:41) * 1 lines
Finished "Dragonfly", moved on to "Voyager", and just got "Drums of Autumn". Checked out Diana Gabaldon's website and see she has 2 more in the works, "Fiery Cross" and "Farewell to something", as well as a prequel about Jamie's parents, Ellen and Brian. I'm in deep....!
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Response 19 of 40: Martha Livingston (arthamom) * Sun, Mar 1, 1998 (22:58) * 1 lines
Hi, Autumn! I finished "Drums of Autumn" and immediately went into grusome withdrawal. There really is noone like her! I'm almost (almost!) glad that I have to wait for the next one, because I can savor this one while I anticipate the next. The problem is that I'm grouchily flailing around for something to fill that Gabaldon niche in my life and there ISN'T ANYTHING! Pace yourself!
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Response 20 of 40: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Tue, Mar 3, 1998 (13:07) * 4 lines
You know, I thought about delaying "Drums" for a good while, but frankly, I couldn't get Jamie and Claire out of my mind! Isn't that asinine? I went to D.G.'s website and wrote down the names of the authors that she says she enjoys reading, so maybe I'll check those out when I'm done and need something to tide me over. Besides, she has excerpts from her future novels there too...If you're interested, it's:
www.cco.caltech.edu/~gatti/gabaldon/gabaldon.html
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Response 21 of 40: sheila (sblacklock) * Thu, Mar 5, 1998 (21:33) * 9 lines
Hi people,
I do love to get lost in a good book.
I havn't started reading it yet but a friend of mine lent me
DG's Outlander recently. Everyone here seems to think
very highly of it so I'd better get reading.
Anybody familiar with Jayne Anne Krentz aka Amanda Quick?
She's a favourite of mine.
Romance is my comfort, The Flame and The Flower-Kathleen Woodiwiss
my ultimate romantic reading experience.
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Response 22 of 40: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Fri, Mar 6, 1998 (09:30) * 4 lines
i do enjoy the romatic under (or over) tones in many novels but i find it very difficult to sit and read a pure romance novel. Boy woos girl in amazing fashion, girl plays hard to get, catastrophe strikes, boy and girl try desperately to overcome obstacles and in the end they do... with their love/passion.
When i've finished i rarely believe that the book has brought me anything. Nothing to think about, talk to others about, realize about myself...
But often my tastes in literature run very far from the 'beaten path' so please don't think i am slamming the genre. Just find it hard to relate.
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Response 23 of 40: Wolf (Wolf) * Sun, Mar 8, 1998 (22:10) * 2 lines
don't care too much for the template romance novels, either. enjoy belva plain,
and kathleen woodiwiss, fern michaels is good, too.
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Response 24 of 40: Martha Livingston (arthamom) * Mon, Mar 16, 1998 (00:00) * 3 lines
Kathleen Woodiwiss keeps coming up--it must be my turn! I've read Amanda Quick and she makes me giggle! Her characters are always so brave and smart (but silly)--she's kind of a bridge between Georgette Heyer and the (oxymoron?) modern historical romance. I've never read her Krenz books, but I've heard they're really good.
Stacey--you can't explain the romance urge to someone who hasn't got it. I'm pretty selective, but I can read a harlequin in a pinch. I keep meaning to do a really thoughtful study of "pulp" fiction--those disreputable genres that inspire such devotion and such derision...but who has time to be thoughtful!?
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Response 25 of 40: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Mon, Mar 16, 1998 (11:33) * 2 lines
*smile* as a 'pulp' fiction fan, I must tell you, thoughtful is not necessary!
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Response 26 of 40: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (21:13) * 1 lines
I just finished a genuinely ridiculous piece of drivel called "Knight in Shining Armor" by Jude Deveraux, which someone had the nerve to equate with "Outlander"! The author herself in the prologue states that so many people have written her to tell her "Knight" is the best book they've ever read--*gag*!
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Response 27 of 40: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Mar 18, 1998 (17:26) * 1 lines
guess you didn't like it...
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Response 28 of 40: Autumn Moore (autumn) * Thu, Mar 19, 1998 (11:31) * 1 lines
that's the understatement of the year (she said dryly)
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Response 29 of 40: S B Robinson (SBRobinson) * Mon, Apr 22, 2002 (15:04) * 11 lines
Autumn, am laughing over posts from 4 years ago.... :_)
RE: Knight in Shinning Armor - that was the first romance novel i ever read. (well aside from the parentally approved Grace Livingston Hill books *rolling eyes*) Thought it was wonderful.... so romantic....
LOL, Then started reading other romances and discovered it was perhaps not the greatest thing ever written after all. -Still you have to admit, there is a rather creative use of ice cream in one scene... ;-)
(scary what one remembers years later -isnt it?)
someone had the nerve to equate with "Outlander"!
*falling over in laughter*
well, people do end up in the wrong time periods, but other than that...
actually - the only other "time travel" book i ever recommend to people is Linda Howard's Son of the Morning.
But really, Diana Gabaldon is the Queen of that genre.
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Response 30 of 40: Autumn (autumn) * Tue, Apr 23, 2002 (14:27) * 1 lines
Don't recall the ice cream, LOL! I recently read Fiery Cross so I guess I'm still a Gabaldon addict. How Jamie and Claire can still be keepin' it real after all these years is beyond me...
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Response 31 of 40: S B Robinson (SBRobinson) * Tue, Apr 23, 2002 (15:48) * 6 lines
Fiery Cross was SO GOOD~ The love between Jamie and Claire is just amazing. I still break out in a big grin whenever if think of the scene where he finds her looking through the microscope and mistakenly thinks she's watching germs. ;-D
LOL!
And Bree literally blowing Stephen Bonnet's balls off! -talk about letting the punishment fit the crime... -loved Germaine's version to Jamie "the bad man was full of holes"
*sigh* cant wait for the next book *fingers crossed* it wont be four more long years.
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Response 32 of 40: Autumn (autumn) * Wed, Apr 24, 2002 (14:02) * 1 lines
I have an irrational fear that she'll die before finishing the series and will leave us hanging!
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Response 33 of 40: S B Robinson (SBRobinson) * Thu, Apr 25, 2002 (14:12) * 4 lines
Bite your tongue!
LOL - great like i didnt have enough to worry about as it was.... ;-D
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Response 34 of 40: Autumn (autumn) * Fri, Apr 26, 2002 (16:19) * 1 lines
Don't let it keep you up nights, SB!
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Response 35 of 40: S B Robinson (SBRobinson) * Tue, Jun 4, 2002 (12:02) * 3 lines
Just read a fun "spy" romance novel set in the 1770s, prior to the American Revolution, called For Love or Country. It made me laugh out loud couple of times. The hero is a cross between Sir Percy and James Bond and the herione is a fiesty thing, who is more sucessful at her amateur attempts at spying than the hero, who is a "professional".
i recommend it for light summer reading :-D
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Response 36 of 40: Sam Blob (AlFor) * Mon, Jun 24, 2002 (19:43) * 3 lines
Normally I would say I detest romance novels, but I rather liked "A Tale Of Two Cities", a tale of unrequited love if ever there was one. That the lady's champion who forfeited his life for her happiness was no nobleman, but instead rather a lout, turns the blade even further.
"It is a far, far better thing I do now than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest I go to than I have ever known." - closing sentence, A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
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Response 37 of 40: Autumn (autumn) * Mon, Jun 24, 2002 (21:45) * 1 lines
I loved this novel when I read it in high school. It is a great supplement to study of the French Revolution.
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Response 38 of 40: Fireman (AlFor) * Tue, Jun 25, 2002 (08:15) * 3 lines
Drugstore romances and supermarket tabloids revolt me. To think that so many trees are being sacrificed at the altar of pith just makes me ill.
There may be use for Bradbury's firemen after all...
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Response 39 of 40: S B Robinson (SBRobinson) * Wed, Jul 3, 2002 (18:38) * 9 lines
Am just finishing up Nora Robert's Cordina's Royal Family. It's a
re-release of three stories she published several years ago. Glad they
decide to do the re-release, as the orignals are difficult -or pricey to
come by. The sequal to this orignal trilogy came out eariler this year.
Liked the first in the series the best i think, though the third -The
Playboy Prince (*rolling eyes at the name*) had it's moments :-) Anybody
else read these?
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Response 40 of 40: Fireman (AlFor) * Fri, Jul 5, 2002 (04:43) * 1 lines
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