I am reminded of a post I read by a romance novelist who said she frequently heard the complaint that romance novels were "unrealistic". She related one such conversation, where she asked the complainer what kind of books s/he read and got "mysteries" as a response. She asked "OK, unrealistic...how many dead bodies have you seen in your lifetime? How many relationships have you had?"
In the comment thread of the post I recently linked to from Charlie Stross' blog, he had a nice takedown of someone dissing romances, which made me think much more highly of him, even though I don't read them any more.
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Date: 2011-09-28 11:53 pm (UTC)In the comment thread of the post I recently linked to from Charlie Stross' blog, he had a nice takedown of someone dissing romances, which made me think much more highly of him, even though I don't read them any more.