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Romance Novels: Who Reads Them?

I will occassionally pick up a vintage one at the thrift shop and read it out of curiosity, but I don't understand who really ever bought them.

Does anyone here ever read them for real?

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by Anonymousreply 12April 23, 2018 3:59 PM

I actually bit the bullet once and decided to read one. With a glass (ok, bottle) of White Zinfandel and a box of Russell Stover chocolates just to see what it might be like to be a middle-aged frau. Or, as I put it, "Wallowing in my own crapulence." Let's just say I read the entire miserable book in the time it took to drink the miserable wine and eat the miserable chocolates. All in all, worth doing just to see how the other half lives. Miserably.

by Anonymousreply 1March 14, 2018 10:26 PM

Not since I was in my 20s.

by Anonymousreply 2March 14, 2018 10:37 PM

In the old Barbara Cartland one I read, she really liked her heroine to speak with lots of ellipsis. It became very, very annoying. Very, very quickly.

[italic]"But...I never thought....that you could possibly care...for me. When I saw you...in the park..."

by Anonymousreply 3March 14, 2018 11:02 PM

[quote]R1 I actually bit the bullet once and decided to read one. With a glass (ok, bottle) of White Zinfandel and a box of Russell Stover chocolates just to see what it might be like to be a middle-aged frau.

Can you recoun t the plot for us, all these years later?

by Anonymousreply 4March 14, 2018 11:38 PM

White Zin and a box of chocolates? You ARE a middle-aged frau.

by Anonymousreply 5March 14, 2018 11:52 PM

My ex-husband does.

by Anonymousreply 6March 14, 2018 11:54 PM

Rape fantasies everywhere. Lots of bad boys tamed.

I guess what that says about female fantasies is that they want rough sex, but just rough enough, and with lots of eye contact and kissing. Also they want the ravisher to read their mind and get to it.

by Anonymousreply 7April 23, 2018 3:44 PM

Mary Higgins Clark books are decent

by Anonymousreply 8April 23, 2018 3:47 PM

i did when I was younger and there was no Internet. Some of them are pretty hot. I jacked off to more than one cover.

by Anonymousreply 9April 23, 2018 3:50 PM

Daisy from KUP was always reading them.

by Anonymousreply 10April 23, 2018 3:52 PM

That should be KUA

by Anonymousreply 11April 23, 2018 3:53 PM

Yes regarding the Cartland heroines being mealy-mouthed ellipsis-speaking goody two shoes.

by Anonymousreply 12April 23, 2018 3:59 PM
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