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    Cliches, Reinforced.

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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    07/07/09

    In reply to Cliches, Reinforced.
    O RLY? Well, I'm not yet middle-age but I'll tell you something for nothing. I like SERIOUS books. Not the name-dropping sex-and-shoe-and-failed-relationships-boo-hoo girly books. No, I'd pick anything by Margaret Atwood for my desert island, TYVM. Or maybe Stephen King. His short-story collections are awesome. Bloody, gross, and awesome. So there.


    Ooop! Time to go ogle the shirtless roofers next door and daydream about having babies with them! BRB!

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    Aesop's Foibles. YES. was starred Aesop's Foibles. YES. was unstarred
    Image of Dodgergirl Dodgergirl
    07/07/09

    In reply to Cliches, Reinforced.
    This actually explains a lot about middle aged women.


    Why do they have so many cats? 'Cause they want to be surrounded by pussies! Why do they enjoy chocolate? It's an aphrodisiac, duh. And I think the appeal of Lifetime is self-explanatory.

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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    07/07/09

    In reply to Cliches, Reinforced.
    Put down the Cathy strip and back away slowly.

    Slooooowly.
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    Image of tscheese tscheese
    07/07/09

    In reply to Cliches, Reinforced.
    Chocolate, chocolate, ack! ACK!!!
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    Image of doodley is not amused doodley is not amused
    07/07/09

    In reply to Cliches, Reinforced.
    Top 10 books women would take to a desert island, according to the survey:


    1 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding (20 per cent)



    I'm sorry, but REALLY?

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    Image of Dodgergirl Dodgergirl
    07/07/09

    @doodley is not amused: The game is desert island books, not guilty pleasure books. Desert island books are the books you are going to read for the rest of your life. Forever! Unforgivable. (This message has been brought to you by Jim Halpert)
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    07/07/09

    @doodley is not amused: *snort* They don't know about LJ.
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    Image of my cousin is an ape my cousin is an ape
    07/07/09

    @doodley is not amused: My Top 10:

    The Prophet (Gibran)

    The Blue Sword (McKinley)

    Heidi

    The Wolf and the Dove (Woodiwiss)

    . . .

    I give up. I'm having trouble culling 20 books from my stacks. How could I choose just 10?
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    Image of laetitiae laetitiae
    07/07/09

    @my cousin is an ape: I think I would cheat and add a lot of the complete works for my desert island books.


    Definitely:

    Complete works of Shakespeare

    Complete works of Jane Austen

    Borges Collected Fictiones

    Plato's Complete Works

    Aristotle's Complete Works

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    Image of doodley is not amused doodley is not amused
    07/07/09

    @laetitiae: I like the way you think. Including "Complete Works" volumes would make it somewhat easier to get to 10 (although I still don't know that I could do it).


    @Dodgergirl : You mean there's a difference between desert island books and beach reads? They both have sand...

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    Image of Flackette Goes Retro Flackette Goes Retro
    07/07/09

    In reply to Cliches, Reinforced.
    Did they interview my mom's Red Hat club?
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    Image of mbprice mbprice
    07/07/09

    In reply to Cliches, Reinforced.
    Chocolate joke, chocolate joke... oh! Okay! So, did you hear about the new line of chocolates for middle-aged women who love reading about sex? Hershey's French Kisses.


    Lamest. Joke. Ever.

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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    07/07/09

    @mbprice: Ah duzn't getz it.

    But I iz a moddle.
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    Image of BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
    07/07/09

    In reply to Cliches, Reinforced.
    And what the hell is wrong with reading romance? Harumph, I say!
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    Image of KiddyKat KiddyKat
    07/07/09

    @BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): AGREED. I know many younger women who love to read about sex, too. Doesn't everyone? Well they should.
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    Image of BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
    07/07/09

    @KiddyKat: Yes, cliche makes it sound like such a bad thing! Romance is the biggest market in books - hot sex, feisty heroines (most of the time) and happy endings. The world could use more of that.
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    07/07/09

    In reply to Cliches, Reinforced.
    Middle-aged women?


    Are they using, like, moddles' middle age, for their demographic demo-ey demos?


    Or are they just terrified of what they'll find if they start polling teenagers?

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    Image of tinyheadache tinyheadache
    07/07/09

    In reply to Cliches, Reinforced.
    They're leaving out that crucial 9-12 year old male/female demographic that likes the hot gushy feelings names like Alistair and Pippa give them.
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    07/07/09

    @tinyheadache: Hermaphrodytes?????


    Gosh darn.

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    Image of BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
    07/07/09

    In reply to Cliches, Reinforced.
    In other wimmin studies, scmienticians have discovered a new, terrible body part called "the clitoris" which causes wimmin to enjoy "the sex act". Local scmienticians are scratching their heads and re-doubling their efforts to study the elusive and frightening "wimmins".
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    Image of Rooo sez BISH PLZ Rooo sez BISH PLZ
    07/07/09

    @BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit): "scmienticians"


    Win.


    Just stop right there.

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    Image of Penny Penny
    07/07/09

    In reply to Cliches, Reinforced.
    I like to eat bon-bons watching The Devil Wears Prada while one guy goes down on me and the other gives me a mani-pedi.
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    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    07/07/09

    @Penny: Funny, I just call that Tuesday.
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    07/07/09

    @Penny: Well really, in my house we call that "Tuesday."
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    Image of Penny Penny
    07/07/09

    @CurtCole: @Zombie MissSkittles is not your kind of lady: I take it you two are an item?
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    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    07/07/09

    @Zombie MissSkittles is not your kind of lady: Jinx, you're bringing the bon bons.
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    Image of Zombie Ms. Skittles Zombie Ms. Skittles
    07/07/09

    @CurtCole: Only if you bring the liquor.
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    07/07/09

    @Penny: Wow. I am a total cliche because you just described what would be my all-time perfect day.
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    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    07/07/09

    @Zombie MissSkittles is not your kind of lady: Done. Anyone else? Line starts here and me and Zombie MissSkittles have limited seating and knee pads.
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    Image of CurtCole CurtCole
    07/07/09

    In reply to Cliches, Reinforced.
    Who are you calling Middle-aged? Who are you calling a woman? I enjoy boner lit. as much as the next guy.
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    Image of Rare Affinity Rare Affinity
    07/07/09

    In reply to Cliches, Reinforced.
    Speaking as a middle aged woman, I rarely seek books which have steamy sex scene in, as I prefer biographies and factual books. Occasionally exotic sex does appear in my literature as hitorical biographies like to portray the sexual mores of the period. and I am fascinated by the lives of courtesans from previous centuries.
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    Image of lilbobbytables lilbobbytables
    07/07/09

    In reply to Cliches, Reinforced.
    Doesn't everyone like to read about sex?


    I'm a pervert, aren't I. Well, piss.

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    Image of save jinger save jinger
    07/07/09

    @lilbobbytables is a la-di-da feminist: I was going to ask the same question.


    Reading about sex: enjoyed by save jinger since 1996-ish.

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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    07/07/09

    @lilbobbytables is a la-di-da feminist: Really. Since the first minute I realized there was sex to read about, I've been reading about it. Not even doing it deters me.
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