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    Image of angryblackgurl angryblackgurl
    11/20/08

    In reply to Good Call
    I use to read those books when I was 12 Katherine Woodweiss, etc. Can't imagine anyone over 16 reading them and enjoying. I guess it has parleyed into the gritty street lit stuff as well. But this "IPhone/Kinderbook" stuff reaks of even more publishing jobs lost..should have taken the post office test 20 years ago!!
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    Image of Ratinski Ratinski
    11/20/08

    @angryblackgurl: I tried to reread The Flame and the Flower recently and couldn't get past the rape. And I read romance all the time.
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    Image of tscheese tscheese
    11/20/08

    In reply to Good Call
    See, I'm no good at this, even with ebooks. I have a text reader app installed on my iPod Touch.


    I downloaded Lady Chatterley's Lover from Project Gutenberg (GUYS! Free ebooks!) and even with that old-timey raunch dialed down to the teeniest text size so only I could see, I was STILL kind of cupping my iPod behind my hands so nobody else on the bus could see what I was reading.


    I'm not a prude, but I don't want anyone else to know that I read racy things. I don't even understand it myself.

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    Image of Mkp-hearts-NYC Mkp-hearts-NYC
    11/20/08

    In reply to Good Call
    Looooove the trashy reads...but I can't read porn on the train. I have trouble watching some episodes of Mad Men! I always ended up fast forwarding until I could re-watch at home.
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    Image of rosasparks rosasparks
    11/20/08

    In reply to Good Call
    My best friend, since we were 12, buys sci-fi/fantasy and romanace books only from the drug store, on her runs for tampons and face cream.


    She then passes them forward to me. I hate them and yet I CANNOT put them down. I end up staying up all night reading that trash! Embarrassed, maybe, but captivated by them.


    Hottest book ever? A romance between a witch and a werewolf. Those sex scenes had me panting.

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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    11/20/08

    In reply to Good Call
    I can't imagine getting more hellfire vomiting stares from people than the time I was reading "GOD IS NOT GREAT" on the train.


    People get really mad when confronted with the notion that the Invisible Man in the Sky may not be real.

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    Image of Kilotwat Kilotwat
    11/20/08

    @morninggloria: To tie it to the theme of the post, next time put the words "in bed" after that title, and see how people on the train react!
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    11/20/08

    @Kilotwat: Yeah, maybe if it were a picture of God and some busty maiden embracing....
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    Image of Spaceman Bill Leah Spaceman Bill Leah
    11/20/08

    @morninggloria: I once got a lecture on the CTA from some proselytizing Christian-type for reading a book called The Devil's Cup. This book is about COFFEE.
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    Image of morninggloria morninggloria
    11/20/08

    @Spaceman Bill Leah needs a full-length puffy coat: Man, just when you think Chicago's got its head on straight, you get on the CTA and are reminded that it never runs out of crazy.
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    Image of Gingerlime Gingerlime
    11/20/08

    In reply to Good Call
    I always call those books "rape romance," because they always start out with the 'heroine' resisting. "No! Stop! I can't! Oh, okay."


    Not that rape is romantic. It sure ain't, but the books are a bit...rape apologist. Such as.

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    Image of rosasparks rosasparks
    11/20/08

    @Gingerlime: The rape stuff is just icky. Not all of them have that, but still.... Like, no, no, I don't want it, but, oh you're so strong and dominating. YES.


    Ew.

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    Image of HarpMadness HarpMadness
    11/20/08

    In reply to Good Call
    Oo, I just got an iPhone for work but I doubt they intend for me to read racy novels on it.


    On a side note, a friend of mine and I who are recovering English Lit majors once read a really cheesy one and tried to apply our knowledge of literary criticism to it. It was actually one of the better "book clubs" I've been involved with.

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    Image of Kilotwat Kilotwat
    11/20/08

    In reply to Good Call
    Oh, come on, what about this clinch?


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    Image of rosasparks rosasparks
    11/20/08

    @Kilotwat: that picture is hot as hell. Damn.
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    Image of Kilotwat Kilotwat
    11/20/08

    @Kilotwat: What would a romance novel based on that pic be like?
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    Image of sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit) sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
    11/20/08

    @Kilotwat: Can we give them romance novel names? None spring to mind at the moment...
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    Image of Kilotwat Kilotwat
    11/20/08

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god.prepares.to.welcome.her.new.ovumlord: Cum-munity Orgasmizer? No wait, that's a porno name. But I don't know romance, I only know porn!
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    Image of BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
    11/20/08

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god.prepares.to.welcome.her.new.ovumlord: Justice LeBlacque and Desiree Belle?
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    Image of pureblarney pureblarney
    11/20/08

    @BrutallyHonestBabes: I think that wins. A Prince For the Time?
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    Image of rosasparks rosasparks
    11/20/08

    @BrutallyHonestBabes: I cannot stop laughing. That is the greatest thing I have heard in days. You're brilliant.


    (silent laughter & tears at desk)


    You know they are having an illicit affair, as they are working together, maybe on an explosive legal case and are on opposite sides. And yet, despite their differing viewpoints, they cannot contain their passion for one another.


    I see a really hot, blouse-tearing sex scene in an old, legal office.


    The title of this book could be Guilty As Charged.

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    Image of sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit) sarah.of.a.lesser.god (aka Mrs. BrutallyHonestHobbit)
    11/20/08

    @BrutallyHonestBabes: @rosasparks: YES! WE! CAN! (Write romance novels)


    "Desiree noticed that Justice was a finicky eater. 'Here,' she told him, holding up a spoon of seafood chowder. 'I think you might like these clams. They're...creamy.'


    Justice decided right then and there, that only Desiree could awaken a passion inside of him for something other than bipartisanship. Unless she herself was bi...partisan. Then she would be the woman of his dreams (from his father.)


    'Desiree,' he declared, 'you fill me with the audacity to grope.'"

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    11/20/08

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god.prepares.to.welcome.her.new.ovumlord: Bwahahahaaa!
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    Image of rosasparks rosasparks
    11/20/08

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god.prepares.to.welcome.her.new.ovumlord: I just spat tortilla chips on my monitor.


    The Audacity to Grope needs to be a facebook group.

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    Image of BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit) BrutallyHonestBabes (aka Mrs. Sarah.of.a.Lesser.Hobbit)
    11/20/08

    In reply to Good Call
    I bought a romance novel the other day just because I saw Fabio on the cover. Actual Fabio. What is this "shame" you speak of?
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    11/20/08

    @BrutallyHonestBabes: I don't believe it's not soft porn!
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    11/20/08

    In reply to Good Call
    I only read one romance novel, The Princess and the Pirate. The cover was nothing compared to the book: the pirate in question named his penis "Hoary". Hoary became a character with dialogue and everything! It was endless amusement on a cross-country drive.
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    11/20/08

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god.prepares.to.welcome.her.new.ovumlord: I must own this book.
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    Image of CrankyOldBroad CrankyOldBroad
    11/20/08

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god.prepares.to.welcome.her.new.ovumlord: Author name?
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    11/20/08

    @BrutallyHonestBabes: I'm feeling servicey: [www.amazon.com]


    The first sentence: "Look there. Ain't that the biggest ass you ever seen?"

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    11/20/08

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god.prepares.to.welcome.her.new.ovumlord: I never thought I could love you more, but you have now brought funny porn into my life.
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    Image of dianersb was bit by a zombie dianersb was bit by a zombie
    11/20/08

    @sarah.of.a.lesser.god.prepares.to.welcome.her.new.ovumlord: I feel as if whole swaths of the dialogue should go on my christmas cards.
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