tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012664417591303836.post867072757213824091..comments2024-01-28T04:42:49.700-08:00Comments on DIK (Desert Island Keepers): Poking the Hornet's Nest - (Or Why I Hate Romeo and Juliet)DIK Ladieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03975839058527201650noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012664417591303836.post-19568399851959445962010-11-08T23:37:11.740-08:002010-11-08T23:37:11.740-08:00Barb - I like the R&J version which stars Leo....Barb - I like the R&J version which stars Leo. And I'd recommend the Helena Bonham Carter version of Twelfth Night. <br /><br />I think as far as R&J is concerned I'd say they're a classical romantic couple (in the traditional meaning of the word). But it isn't a romance story.LesleyWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14059048442986942270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012664417591303836.post-11183120974646821592010-11-08T23:32:34.517-08:002010-11-08T23:32:34.517-08:00Sullivan - thank you. :)
Kim - Yeah, I know that ...Sullivan - thank you. :)<br /><br />Kim - Yeah, I know that sick and angry feeling. I have the first book in the Fever series on my TBR pile. Haven't got round to reading it yet, so I may just wait to hear the reviews as well. Before starting a series I may not want to finish.LesleyWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14059048442986942270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012664417591303836.post-9896800781418730932010-11-08T16:47:33.097-08:002010-11-08T16:47:33.097-08:00I had to laugh when I read the title of your post!...I had to laugh when I read the title of your post! My high school years are coming back to haunt me as I have a child about to study Romeo and Juliet in English class just after Christmas! (btw Leonardo does Romeo beautifully!) The comment that came home from school the other day was that Romeo and Juliet was one of the world's classic romance stories. I said "WHAT"?? <br /><br />I had years and years of reading stupid things in high school (higher literature) and textbook after textbook in university. I'm now proud to read romance! I don't want to think too hard. I want to be entertained. And after watching the evening new - I want a happy ending! No dead bodies please!Barbhttp://www.sugarbeatsbooks.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012664417591303836.post-79561645758332109102010-11-08T15:57:31.528-08:002010-11-08T15:57:31.528-08:00Great post, Lesley. I agree, if I want to read ab...Great post, Lesley. I agree, if I want to read about death and no HEA, I'll read True Crime or a history book. It shouldn't be in my romance.<br /><br />I don't know what genre Karen Marie Moning's Fever series is but I started reading that about a year ago, because the first book was free and I've liked her highlander series. At the end of the last Fever book, someone died. We don't know who it was, because it was a freaking cliffhanger, but I had this horrible feeling after I read it that it was someone very important. Maybe the hero? <br /><br />I felt sick after reading it, and then I felt angry.<br /><br />That's not how I want to feel after I read a book. I felt safe reading this series because KMM usually writes romance, so I guess I expected at the very least a HFN. Now I'm not so sure we'll even get that. Before I buy the last book I'll be watching reviews.<br /><br />The romance authors that I've followed to a different genre, usually have a romantic element in their non-romance books. For example Nora Roberts/J D Robb. So I guess I expected KMM to follow that trend.<br /><br />That will teach me not to start a series until all books are published!Kimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06420555318535584083noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012664417591303836.post-36701823869928237322010-11-08T15:57:05.465-08:002010-11-08T15:57:05.465-08:00Hear, hear!!
I agree completely!
I couldn't ha...Hear, hear!!<br />I agree completely!<br />I couldn't have said it any better than you just did.Sullivan McPighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15133432350331782496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012664417591303836.post-54457432629972821802010-11-08T14:42:44.329-08:002010-11-08T14:42:44.329-08:00Jenre - hmmm, yes the irritating romance character...Jenre - hmmm, yes the irritating romance character who you wish could meet up with a non-fatal grand piano ala Wiley Coyote and The Road Runner.<br /><br />But I like the vast majority of what I read to end if not with an HEA then at least a hopeful one. That way, I have the literary fortitude to read that excellently written but gut-wrenching book, which I know is going to leave me unable to read anything else for two weeks after.LesleyWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14059048442986942270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8012664417591303836.post-24000648680201867062010-11-08T14:21:00.380-08:002010-11-08T14:21:00.380-08:00I agree, Lesley. One of the main reasons I read r...I agree, Lesley. One of the main reasons I read romance is because of the HEA. <br /><br />Pure escapism? Hell, yes!<br /><br />I know it's one of the main reasons why romance is sneered at so much. Apparently it makes you less of a person if you prefer your books or stories to end well, but I spent many miserable years reading books which ended badly, with dark, depressing themes, and to be honest I've had enough. Books which are marketed at romance, even with UF themes, and which then end with the death of one of the characters leave me feeling as you do, Lesley, manipulated, and perhaps also a little bit betrayed.<br /><br />However, if I read a book that isn't marketed as romance which then ends badly, it doesn't bother me because I knew going into reading the book that all bets were off.<br /><br />Mind you there have been a few occasions where I really wished one of the characters in a romance would be killed in a horrible fashion before the end of the book because they have been so irritating :).Jenrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15492693697232134724noreply@blogger.com