Comments on: Trashy Romance http://www.bloggerbingo.com/bitterwomen/?p=190 wimmins is as wimmins does Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:35:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: http://girlsforum.com http://www.bloggerbingo.com/bitterwomen/?p=190&cpage=1#comment-673 http://girlsforum.com Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:35:26 +0000 http://www.bloggerbingo.com/bitterwomen/2008/12/31/trashy-romance/#comment-673 It is really great post. Maxcy It is really great post.

Maxcy

]]> By: The Sassy Sexpert http://www.bloggerbingo.com/bitterwomen/?p=190&cpage=1#comment-667 The Sassy Sexpert Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:59:01 +0000 http://www.bloggerbingo.com/bitterwomen/2008/12/31/trashy-romance/#comment-667 This was a really great post. It made me think about my own motivations for avoiding romance novels....but, I've always been a fan of erotic fiction - I think I just prefer more violent erotic fiction. Anyway, you really have a great point when you say that it is most likely the fact that women are writing - and reading - about sex that makes people say it's "trashy." This was a really great post. It made me think about my own motivations for avoiding romance novels….but, I’ve always been a fan of erotic fiction - I think I just prefer more violent erotic fiction.

Anyway, you really have a great point when you say that it is most likely the fact that women are writing - and reading - about sex that makes people say it’s “trashy.”

]]> By: Yo' Momma http://www.bloggerbingo.com/bitterwomen/?p=190&cpage=1#comment-664 Yo' Momma Wed, 31 Dec 2008 12:44:52 +0000 http://www.bloggerbingo.com/bitterwomen/2008/12/31/trashy-romance/#comment-664 Good Gawd------I turn my literary back for a minute and you are reading TRASH! Saints preserve us! And you take back what you said about Jane Ayre---that's----that's LITERATURE. ...and clean up your room....Love, Mom Good Gawd——I turn my literary back for a minute and you are reading TRASH! Saints preserve us!

And you take back what you said about Jane Ayre—that’s—-that’s LITERATURE.

…and clean up your room….Love, Mom

]]> By: Matt Kelland http://www.bloggerbingo.com/bitterwomen/?p=190&cpage=1#comment-662 Matt Kelland Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:04:06 +0000 http://www.bloggerbingo.com/bitterwomen/2008/12/31/trashy-romance/#comment-662 It depends what you mean by "trashy". I describe a lot of SF as trashy. I tend to use it to mean either "so appallingly written it made me laugh" or "unmemorable yet pleasantly entertaining". Quite a lot of romance novels fall into one of those categories. I don't use the term in the American way to mean "slutty" or "cheap". Good, lightweight entertaining novels are a wonderful thing, and they're a lot harder to write than most people think. In my mind, there's not a lot of difference in quality or skill between a male-oriented run of the mill thriller by someone like Jack Higgins (who is a great bloke and one of my favourite authors) and a female-oriented romance. It's just the subject matter and target audience. But whereas Higgins regularly tops bestseller lists, romantic authors are derided. Maybe that's just publishers for you. It's much the same in the film world, where the "chick flick" is a patronising term. "Real" films have real men with guns and cars and fighting, don't they? Well, tell that to the guys looking at the box office receipts for Mamma Mia. So, enjoy your romantic novels unashamedly, Jayne. It depends what you mean by “trashy”. I describe a lot of SF as trashy. I tend to use it to mean either “so appallingly written it made me laugh” or “unmemorable yet pleasantly entertaining”. Quite a lot of romance novels fall into one of those categories. I don’t use the term in the American way to mean “slutty” or “cheap”.

Good, lightweight entertaining novels are a wonderful thing, and they’re a lot harder to write than most people think. In my mind, there’s not a lot of difference in quality or skill between a male-oriented run of the mill thriller by someone like Jack Higgins (who is a great bloke and one of my favourite authors) and a female-oriented romance. It’s just the subject matter and target audience. But whereas Higgins regularly tops bestseller lists, romantic authors are derided. Maybe that’s just publishers for you.

It’s much the same in the film world, where the “chick flick” is a patronising term. “Real” films have real men with guns and cars and fighting, don’t they? Well, tell that to the guys looking at the box office receipts for Mamma Mia.

So, enjoy your romantic novels unashamedly, Jayne.

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