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Ladies, do you read romantic novels?

Ladies only: do you read romantic novels?

  • Yes.

    Votes: 5 19.2%
  • No.

    Votes: 21 80.8%

  • Total voters
    26

teslashock

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Only short excerpts outloud with my other NTP friends for a good laugh.

"His strong, pulsating member entered her narrow corridor of warm bliss, arousing in him a flood of tender ecstacy as the sweet, robust smell of human sweat filled the room." Who can't laugh at the fact that you can put together practically any combination of arbitrary nouns and adjectives and end up with the description of a sex scene?
 
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I don't read them because I'd rather use that time to read something more interesting, like The Third Man Factor: Surviving the Impossible or Dante's Inferno.
 

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I don't read romance novels, but I read Romantic literature & poetry ("Romantic" as in "Romanticism").
 

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Like OrangeAppled, I like Romanticism, not "romance novels." I could never get into paperback romance novels, even as a teenager. I strongly prefer mysteries if I'm going to go for cheap fiction.

Romanticism is awesomesauce, though. I love Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights among others. I also thought stuff like Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was really romantic when I was younger, and that doesn't really fall in either category.
 

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^ Not nearly as intellectual in my readings Lol. I like to be attached to characters. If they happen to have a love triangle involved, I like it and appreciate it and get into it. but it's not at all necessary, and I don't go actively seeking it.
 

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Nooo.
I'm already frisky as it is, I don't need a romantic novel hyping that up anymore.
:D
 

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Yes of course, Not mills and boon, a lot of novels cover love... it doesn't have to be cheesy. Daphney Du Maurey are pretty romantic, Dracula is a love story... lots of books also have romantic sub-plots.

I run a book club, and actually one of our guys always suggests romantic novels (he always always wants a happy ending but we can't alwas know for sure it will happen)

Almost all the classics are romantic
Tomas Hardy
Brontes
Austin
Zolar (in a twisted way)
Balzac
Pevot

Romantic doesn't equal trash
 

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I don't like romance novels and I loathe the way that movies ALWAYS have some sort of love story in them. Not every story is about love and not every pair of lovers need to be lovers first and whatever they are supposed to be doing second. An occasional tender moment to show the humanity in a character is good, a plot twisted by some lovey dovey crap is :steam:
 
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I don't read romance novels anymore. I've only read a few of them in my whole life. They seriously lack the depth I'm looking for in a novel and always leave me disappointed, so I'm indifferent towards them. I need more substance to feed the soul.

However, I'm not going to trash them either. Everything has its purpose and if people find something useful in them, then by all means, go for it.
 

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It's just a classier version of porn, right?

Screw classy.

Gimme fantasy and Si-Fi :D
 

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Instead of being outright disgusted like most posters in this thread, I'm going to be mild sauce.

You can thank me later.


I don't typically read romance novels, but on occasion I will if I'm procrastinating. I'm not completely averse to it. I revise the plot to my liking and correct the grammar in my head as I go along, and that's more fun sometimes than just reading someone else's words and thoughts. Basically, it's just my subtle way of trashing the work while still being "constructive". It feeds my Te. Of course it's healthy SARCASM.

Sometimes, if I'm around the right crowd, I'll re-read the "throbbing member" passages aloud and remind everyone to start making babies tonight as a cliffhanger.

I'm not usually around the right crowd, though.

:boohoo:


I should probably be trying to compensate for semi-enjoying crap romance novels by citing other (more legitimate) works of fiction to salve any loss of dignity I may have lost in this post, but I refuse. Of course I read other stuff. Therefore, I don't have to go on a tangent about a ton of other books no one else cares about but me.

I am a rebel.


*Forgive the rant. I'm procrastinating at three o'clock in the morning. It's oodles of fun.

I also thought stuff like Tolstoy's Anna Karenina was really romantic when I was younger, and that doesn't really fall in either category.

You're telling me you read Anna Karenina every time you're in the mood for a love story?

Hello Tenacity.
 
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Thalassa

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You're telling me you read Anna Karenina every time you're in the mood for a love story?

Hello Tenacity.

I don't see what's so difficult about reading Tolstoy, honestly. Now if it were Dostoevsky...

I'm a lit major. Reading literature is like second nature to me.
 

Thalassa

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I've read Anna Karenina.

It was very good, but God was it dense.

Well, it's considered to be 19th century Russian Realism, anyway, not Romanticism. Pushkin's Eugene Onegin is considered like the last work of Romanticism - it's much shorter, but it might make you want to hang yourself. :yes:

I think Wuthering Heights is the best romantic story EVAR.
 

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For the most part, no on all counts.

I read a romance novel (like cheesy cover, title that explains whole premise) out of curiosity when I was in high school. But the insides are pretty much what you expect from the outsides. And the plot/characters/etc were incredibly thin and patently ridiculous.

I'm also not a fan of romanticism in literature. I'll admit I haven't read too much of it, but for the most part, Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, and Jane Eyre have put me off of the idea.

I do of course, read novels with characters falling in love and having relationships within them- but I have a really hard time reading any novels where the sole focus (especially conflict-wise) is on romantic relationships. I just can't relate to that, having lived fairly free of such dramas/conflicts.
 

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Yes. It's not a regular reading material of mine, but, yeah, once in a while, I'll take a rec from a friend who's really into these books.

When it comes to books, I don't discriminate, I give all genres a try. From light reading to heavy reads, everything piques my curiosity.

Although, I must admit, these novels make for really fast readings as usually, I sometimes skip chunks of parts that seem to drone on and on.

What I find most beneficial about romance novels, versus other genres of novels, like say, mystery novels or thrillers or whatever, with both being comparably equal "fluff" in their own right, i.e., quick light reading caliber ....

is that, romance novels, esp. historical romances or romances in different settings, are sometimes quite helpful in how I acquire information about a new place, culture, practices, etc., quickly, efforlessly and in a light, fun way. I dunno, it seems like the romance novel authors go more indepth to set the stage, so to speak, in a rose-coloured way, and the visuals are flowy. "Romanticized"/charmed (positive spin, I guess).

E.g., I still remember details about Cajun Culture and the Luisiana bayou, the way the homes are in the bayou (on stick legs), etc.; it was the fastest and easiest way I learned of the culture, through a light-read romance novel.

More creative way of learning that reading books that are made for the specific purpose of educating on the culture, which can get a bit boring.
 

Lady_X

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never have...never even picked one up...wtf that's kinda weird...am i missin out?
 

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Not mills and boons, but some fantasy books are more romantic than others. Isn't twilight a romance novel? in that sense, I guess yes.

I didn't read it for the romance part though, I just read it for the vamps and fantasy aspect.
 
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