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Aug. 20th, 2012 10:24 pmI really need to stop eating Indian food or spicy food, or if I do eat really small portions. Have wicked heart burn. It was either that or the multi-vitamin.
Good Reads has the worst discussion threads on the planet. You can't follow the discussion.
Leave for a bit and you get hopelessly lost. On the plus side? It's admittedly difficult to get into a heated debate over anything. I mean...you'd have to work really hard to find the responses.
There are also some wacky people on that site. Some that appear to be incredibly dense.
I've told them 20 times in various ways..."look not everyone reads a book the same way, we don't read the same book, we think differently, we are unique individuals, we enjoy different things for different reasons..we aren't seeing or focusing on the same things!" To which they inevitably respond: "But I just don't understand how someone could possibly love this crappy book." Sigh. Apparently they don't teach reading comprehension in school any more? Just narcissism.
I may have finally gotten bored of the much maligned romance genre or burned out on it. It is alas much maligned for a reason.
The best of bunch is possibly Sherry Thomas, who sucks at sex scenes. You are either great at sex scenes and suck at practically everything else, or you suck at sex scenes and are passably good at dialogue and description. It's one or the other.
For some reason, writers are better at writing action or fight scenes. Possibly because a fight scene tends to propel action forward a lot quicker than a sex scene. Since no one is likely to die during a sex scene (well not in most cases at any rate), while in a fight scene it is a definite possibility. Nothing propels the action forward faster than a character death or a murder. Plus heightened drama. There is a reason we are violent society, it makes for far more interesting and melodramatic storytelling. How much higher can you raise the stakes than death after all?
Now when you combine a fight scene and a sex scene...action can get propelled forward rather quickly, since that either results in rape, violent sex, bodily injury or death.
So once again violence propels things forward.
Sex in of itself, while titillating to some (granted not to everyone), doesn't really propel things forward. Outside of the fact that two people "did it" - but you don't have to show the specifics to get that across. Less is more and all that. I suppose if it's BDSM as opposed to plain vanilla...that might change the story in some way, but again how descriptive do you have to be?
Good Reads has the worst discussion threads on the planet. You can't follow the discussion.
Leave for a bit and you get hopelessly lost. On the plus side? It's admittedly difficult to get into a heated debate over anything. I mean...you'd have to work really hard to find the responses.
There are also some wacky people on that site. Some that appear to be incredibly dense.
I've told them 20 times in various ways..."look not everyone reads a book the same way, we don't read the same book, we think differently, we are unique individuals, we enjoy different things for different reasons..we aren't seeing or focusing on the same things!" To which they inevitably respond: "But I just don't understand how someone could possibly love this crappy book." Sigh. Apparently they don't teach reading comprehension in school any more? Just narcissism.
I may have finally gotten bored of the much maligned romance genre or burned out on it. It is alas much maligned for a reason.
The best of bunch is possibly Sherry Thomas, who sucks at sex scenes. You are either great at sex scenes and suck at practically everything else, or you suck at sex scenes and are passably good at dialogue and description. It's one or the other.
For some reason, writers are better at writing action or fight scenes. Possibly because a fight scene tends to propel action forward a lot quicker than a sex scene. Since no one is likely to die during a sex scene (well not in most cases at any rate), while in a fight scene it is a definite possibility. Nothing propels the action forward faster than a character death or a murder. Plus heightened drama. There is a reason we are violent society, it makes for far more interesting and melodramatic storytelling. How much higher can you raise the stakes than death after all?
Now when you combine a fight scene and a sex scene...action can get propelled forward rather quickly, since that either results in rape, violent sex, bodily injury or death.
So once again violence propels things forward.
Sex in of itself, while titillating to some (granted not to everyone), doesn't really propel things forward. Outside of the fact that two people "did it" - but you don't have to show the specifics to get that across. Less is more and all that. I suppose if it's BDSM as opposed to plain vanilla...that might change the story in some way, but again how descriptive do you have to be?