Purple prose and romance novels

[koalathebear]

I think I'm getting old. When I was younger, the purple prose in romance novels didn't bother me so much - perhaps I expected it. These days, while I am still ok about reading romance novels I find I read 'pure' romance a lot less and I'm a lot pickier about my authors

Comments

[hazy_crazy]

Okay. Torrid sensuality? Giving directions?!

ROFLMFAO.

God, even fanfic authors write better sex scenes than THAT.

XD!

[koalathebear]

*laugh* I know, I was rolling my eyes when I read it :) Which makes it hard to read ;)

[weissman]

Maybe you are choosing the wrong romance novels to read. Those passages read like car repair directions. (Laugh)

Nine months and counting.

Hey we are thinking of going back to china this august.

[tangledtale]

Ahaha! The extended driving metaphor is priceless. Perhaps after this session, she could draw a map for him, marking out her individual erogenous zones for him to follow? And then during his next 'detour' they can argue about how he should just stop and ask for directions if he can't find certain parts of the female genitalia only to have him brush her off with a whole lot of macho posturing about how he can find the way by himself, damnit? No romance novels can have enough gender stereotypes after all! :D Thanks for sharing Koala. I think I've heard this Judith McNaught before in a mock-review on my friendslist. Something about Whitney, My Love?

[koalathebear]

Ms McNaught is definitely guilty of purple prose. She also has a really bad habit of dropping the names of famous people into her books. It makes me cringe. I really liked a couple of her books but I think my tolerance for romance novels must have dropped or something ....

[alasse_fae]

Now I am picturing the dude rolling over and consulting his GPS.

[koalathebear]

And Coitus was interruptus by the air bagus? :D

[ser523]

Um... *looks around*

Doesn't look like sex to me... in my experience, sex usually doesn't resemble driving a car... *raised eyebrow*

[koalathebear]

It was a very unfortunate and unromantic metaphor ;)