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Mar. 27th, 2010 07:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
meganbmooreThis weekend is the annual Library Booksale, which translates as “Megan grabs any book she may conceivably someday read and ends up taking half of them to the UBS over the next six months.” I also have an unhealthy habit of buying romance novels with the potential to be Awesomely Bad Books. (Sadly, most turn out to be Boringly Bad, or Awfully Bad, or OMG IT’S A TRAINWRECK SAVE ME SAVE ME Bad. Though that one book seems to have saved me from the Bertrice Small Trainwreck Syndrome. I’m still emotionally scarred. Some also end up good.) The following are excerpts of book descriptions that I consider cues for potential Awesomely Bad Books:
“…the outcome of an illicit love affair between an aristocrat and a seamstress…spending her early years in a convent…”
“…survived two years of unspeakable torture at the hands of a vampire goddess…”
“Venerable pharaoh and ancient god of the Nile…a sacred ritual has allowed him to reawaken thousands of years after his death-as a vampire.”
“By day, Sullivan is the most respected horse breeder in England; by night he plunders the ton’s most opulent homes…”
And, uhm, most paranormals. Sadly. (Which is not to say there aren’t good paranormal romances too, just that, in what I've read, the ratio of good-to-bad is smaller than in other cases.)
Also, is it just me, or are there a terribly lot of “Adventurous American discovers secret of ancient/lost civilization/historical figure” books coming out now? I’d rather just read about the civilization/person in the first place, most of the time. Actually, I think it’s more how they sound, given that I actually love the pulp adventure stories? Maybe it’s the “serious literature” approach.
And I got a bunch of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover books. It’ssnarp’s fault. I may actually read them with the proper bribes.
“…the outcome of an illicit love affair between an aristocrat and a seamstress…spending her early years in a convent…”
“…survived two years of unspeakable torture at the hands of a vampire goddess…”
“Venerable pharaoh and ancient god of the Nile…a sacred ritual has allowed him to reawaken thousands of years after his death-as a vampire.”
“By day, Sullivan is the most respected horse breeder in England; by night he plunders the ton’s most opulent homes…”
And, uhm, most paranormals. Sadly. (Which is not to say there aren’t good paranormal romances too, just that, in what I've read, the ratio of good-to-bad is smaller than in other cases.)
Also, is it just me, or are there a terribly lot of “Adventurous American discovers secret of ancient/lost civilization/historical figure” books coming out now? I’d rather just read about the civilization/person in the first place, most of the time. Actually, I think it’s more how they sound, given that I actually love the pulp adventure stories? Maybe it’s the “serious literature” approach.
And I got a bunch of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkover books. It’s
snarp’s fault. I may actually read them with the proper bribes.