[quote]aeyogi wrote:
[quote]Grneyes wrote:
[quote]Dr. Pangloss wrote:
[quote]Grneyes wrote:
Okay,e-books are dangerous things. They are very addictive. Just click, and you have a book. [/quote]
Last book read?
Mine is “The Art of Racing in the Rain” Got tons of accolades, and I really wanted to like it as I’m an amateur driver as well, but couldn’t get over the gimicky-ness of having the family dog narrate the whole story. And a family dog well-versed in Buddhist philosophy as well.
Edit: Didn’t I read somewhere that you love bodice-rippers?[/quote]
Right now I’m reading several different books. I have a huge tbr pile, ranging from Harry Potter to a biography on Lincoln and everything in between. Bodice rippers have their place, but the whole “hero kidnaps heroine, heroine falls in love with hero after being treated like shit and possibly forced sex, hero falls in love with heroine after treating her like shit and forcing her to have sex (not rape per se, just gently not stopping when she says to and she always ends up turned on and acquiescing)” is just…blah to me. The men are always experienced and the women are almost always virgins. It gets boring.
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I am totally shocked. These books are written for women, and they sell plotlines which are about rape.
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Well, since a lot of the “bodice rippers” were historical (medieval and earlier) and a lot of raping and pillaging and plundering and warring was going on, this was just SOP.
Example synopsis: [i]Beautiful and defiant, Kristen Haardrad meets the hot, longing gaze of Royce, Thane of Wyndhurst, with icy fury - vowing never to be enslaved by the powerful Saxon lord who holds her captive.
She is his enemy and his prize - a wild and lusty hellion to be tamed by her dashing conqueror’s kiss. But though maddened with desire for the golden-haired Viking temptress, noble Royce, in conscience, cannot force his exquisite prisoner to submit. For only Kristen’s willing surrender can quench the blistering fires that sear his tormented soul - and heal a heart consumed by passion with a soothing balm of rapturous, unconditional love.
Annotation
New York Times bestseller Johanna Lindsey presents a searing novel of historical romance set in the perilous Viking period. The handsome Thane of Wyndhurst has met his match in stunning, proud Kristen Haardrad, and captor becomes captive to an urgent, explosive desire. (Doubleday Book Club Selection special hardcover edition.) Original. [/i]