So here's a thing that's tiresome - when people rather gauchely feel the need to point out something that everyone else has been hinting around. There are different levels of this, so if everyone has been hinting very heavily and someone brightly and ironically just smashes it out of the park then it's a fair cop, because everyone ELSE was being
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No worries, though, because it's not like you're saying "here is why I defense defense defense" - I mean, I can't be doing with an eReader - even though it would be lighter and more efficient and maybe even stop me from turning my flat into a book-lined coffin - because I would break it, lose it, or having access to 50,000 books at once would result in me never finishing reading any of them. ALSO like Amy I enjoy writing in books and underlining things for later, which is not yet possible on the Kindle etc. BUT there is also a lot to recommend them. OTHER PEOPLE CAN SPEND THEIR MONEY HOWEVER THEY LIKE.
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Reading (and pretty much agreeing to) your points i gotta say i suspect the only reason i enjoyed Jane Eyre was that she wasn't swooning all over the place, being emo about cheating on her husband, or being teenager in love about her much younger lover that had only seduced her to get ahead in life... Stendhal, Balzac, Flaubert i still hate all of yous!
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Man, I am glad we didn't get dragged through Flaubert etc at school, although I will say that the majority of British writers seemed to be obsessed with virtue...
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I know! But there's this whole weird subset who think that any preference is demonstrating ingrained prejudices, and that you cannot possibly like SOME of a genre and not ALL of it, and that any dislike you may have for something Traditionally Feminine is demonstrative of misogyny. Which I guess... makes me a misogynist for not liking kids?
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I think that what I like in a romantic story was permanently warped by the amount of woman-written fantasy I read as a teen. The romantic subplots in books written by men never appealed to me a bit. I blame Anne McCaffrey, Mercedes Lackey, Tamora Pierce, and Patricia C. Wrede for imprinting me on teen woman/older man pairings. That's not at all what I'm drawn to in slash, rarely in fanfic at all, but it definitely affected my real love life for a while.
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I think I took completely the wrong stuff away from the Pern books as a teenager - or possibly the right stuff - which just amounted to "I want a dragon", and the first romantic plots I ended up really noticing were PZB's terrible gay vampire romances. 18-year-old me had very bad taste.
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