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posted by [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com at 10:21pm on 22/02/2007
The formulaic plots and cupboard of stock adjectives? The inability to suspend disbelief because love and life, in my experience, never are like that?
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posted by [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com at 10:26pm on 22/02/2007
And this is from someone who *has* fallen for someone in the space of a moment to no more than several hours and seen it turn into a relationship that lasted for at least a couple of years. And had plenty of those wonderful 'shared insults and witty flirtatious bickering' experiences and seen them go nowhere. I may have become too cynical about love and relationships, although like all historians, I am at my very heart an optimist.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 10:45pm on 22/02/2007
If those are your problems with the romance genre (about which, you may remember, I know very little), you should do fine with Sinclair's work. There's a healthy dose of cynicism, with people-who-have-fallen-for-each-other-or-might-potentially-do-so regularly torn apart - way, way, way apart - by being on conflicting sides of a political situation.
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posted by [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com at 01:41am on 23/02/2007
Much of my undergraduate career included sitting on the beach and doing homework, interrupted by sitting on the beach reading crap romance novels, mystery novels, and sff novels. Mostly crap romance, though, because I couldn't at the time put sff novels down once I started them. Not so good for the homework.

I had a tan then. And white-blonde hair. And still looked out of place on the beach. Miss the sailing, though.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 09:42am on 23/02/2007
I more-or-less gave up reading fiction for the last two years of my dissertation. I still read it while I traveled, or, if was compulsively urgent, over weekends, but I didn't dare start books which risked distracting me during work time, so it was easier just not to read much fiction at all.

That's been one of the truly decadent things about this past year - I can read fiction again! And it's okay for me to do so, as long as I keep on top of my to-do list and get enough else done on a regular basis.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 09:40am on 23/02/2007
P.S. Games of Command comes out officially on February 27th.
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