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Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 18 hours agoIt is almost impossible to avoid romance novels at the library. There are always multiple men, they are always attractive and mysterious in some way, and if it gets down and dirty it gets really dirty.
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 14 hours ago
Interesting. I have had a fair bit of experience with romance novels, and the ‘dirty’ part is always so bland and rehashed that you could substitute one book’s writing in for another’s with no problems.
BranBucket@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
My wife listens to audiobooks out loud when she’s alone and has left a more than few playing absent mindedly. Most of them seem to do pretty well in terms of both variety of acts and how they’re described. But there are only so many euphemisms that manage to straddle the line between overly dry and patently rediculous.
She did have one book where the author over used the word cock enough that I swear the VA reading it was pronouncing the word differently each time just to keep things interesting. It was kinda like: my Cock, MY cock, my coCK, my COCK, mY Cockkkk… my? cock? for a solid five minutes.
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 1 hour ago
Anecdotes aren’t data, I know. My romance novels might be just a small drop of the ocean and I’ve gotten screwed, but I just find all of the ones I’ve read to be bad reading. Plot-driven characters that lead to the same sex scenes. If your wife is getting variety, I’m jealous.
MrDerpGently@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Sure, but you can say the same of porn. There’s a bunch of ways you can end up stuck in a dryer and there are any number of creative solutions to closing that deal, but the sex part gets pretty formulaic taken on its own.