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i have a 19 year old sister and she got me hooked on reading adult romances, which, admittedly, get a little risque at times. okay, so they get a lot risque. but i still love them because i am a hopeless romantic. anybody else read them, or am i the only one? a few favorite authors:
Christine Feehan
Karen Marie Moning
Lisa Kleypas (though she does some retarded stuff sometimes)
Julia Quinn
Jill Barnett
Christina Dodd
Kinley MacGregor
Johanna Lindsey
Elizabeth Lowell
Karen Hawkins
Stephanie Laurens

those are just a few i really love... but don't tell me i'm the only romance sucker, please?

I will (and do) read any genre, and that includes romance/chick lit. Which means, yes, I've read those crappy Harlequin novels, and enough chick lit to keep me over-fluffed well into the next century. I don't recognize any of the names you've listed — but Danielle Steel is the name that seems synonymous with romance, and Helen Fielding = all the love.

But, um, yeah. You're not the only one.

The only novel's I can think of that I like which are kinda romance are the ones by Ernest Hemingway such as the Sun Also Rises. Not really a romance novel in the way you are using the term but the plot has much to do with love, and how WWI has caused many expatriates in europe to lose all sense of purpose in life. Mental and physical wounds abound in the novel, and they cause much suffering for the bearers. But among it all is the relationship between a woman and a man who was injured in the war. I wont give any more away. It is simply excellent in my opinion.

I've tried reading romance, but I lose interest after reading a few pages. Our library has two whole section of these books and the study area is right next to them and the bright pink colours can be very destracting. I did read one book but I can't remember the title.

I hate literary porn...oh, I'm sorry, I meant adult romances. I can't stand romance.

Well, I avoid those, umm...impassioned romances, for lack of better description. However, nice, light, sheltered romances are appealing, such as Jane Austen.

Whether a romantic or not, I don't think I could ever stand reading the ...'romance' novels so-called. In general, I don't read much fluff. I'd rather reread Dostoyevsky (honestly).

So no... You're not the only romance sucker. But I'm not one you have that in common with. ^_~

I tried reading John Jakes once, which wasn't technically romance, but good God. Teufulshund had the description right, I think... ^_~

some of them do, some don't. a lot of them are really good books and if you just skip certain parts... well, they are definetely worthwhile to me.

romance is my fave genre of all!!!! The more raunchy, passionate and romantic it is the better!!!
Love it love it all

Poor Imp wrote:Whether a romantic or not, I don't think I could ever stand reading the ...'romance' novels so-called. In general, I don't read much fluff. I'd rather reread Dostoyevsky (honestly).

So no... You're not the only romance sucker. But I'm not one you have that in common with. ^_~

What Imp said.

I'm hopelessly romantic myself, but still - I'd rather read the noble love hinted at in Russian literature than the rather, ah... more blatent... carnal... type of writing in adult romance... *flails*

Don't feel alone, so am I, but my parents don't really know which is worse than others. But they are really good. What genera of them do you like?

I don't mind chick lit in general, and I definitely don't mind risque, but I do mind cookie cutter characters. So, yeah...by will of my literary snobbishness, I don't like them much.

Here's why: I've a thing for weird characters. And most romance novels I've seen feature the sort of buff, gorgeous libertine character, who falls in love with the buxom blonde. Not exactly weird. Give me the self-conscious Indian poster child for OCD, and the Russian science tutor who- though rather good-looking and well-meaning- unwittingly mangles modifiers and slaughters sentences in general. Give me a hip, feminist flapper who falls for a drunk actor who only seems interested in backup dancers. Or a naive genetically-altered slave girl who's with a normal guy who has absolutely no idea what he's in for.

*end rant* So, in short, I'm not exactly a fan.

you should see my list then sam, I mostly do vampires and such. Those have some weird characters.

Dream Deep wrote:I'm hopelessly romantic myself, but still - I'd rather read the noble love hinted at in Russian literature than the rather, ah... more blatent... carnal... type of writing in adult romance... *flails*

I'm with Dream Deep and Imp in this case. I am a hopeless romantic, but I would much rather read layered, lovely books with hints of romance than a romance novel written in the way that Dream Deep described.

I'm sure there are some good romance novels out there, but... still.

*retreats from thread and hugs Fitzgerald*