Is there such a thing as GOOD crappy books?
Okay, there is many a bad/crappy film that I have loved despite the overblown musical score, clearly impossible stunts and improbable casting of a gorgeous hunky guy as a supposedly average joe.
Oh, and the television I have watched and adored over the years all too often has seemed to make others shudder in despair at my taste.
Though in my defence, many of those television shows are now considered classics; Buffy, Dark Angel, X-Files and a host of others.
It's funny, when I like a bad/crappy TV show or film - I tend to be the first to jump on the defensive band wagon. Saying things like, - I know its science fiction, but it's really good.
Some part of me recognises that my viewing tastes are not particularly high-brow (no master theatre episodes for me, thank you very much) - I love science fiction, I think the stories are imaginative, the characters are layered and seriously... some of the best angst ridden love stories come from these shows.
I think the same can be said for my reading habits. I still to this day, when I tell people that I write paranormal romance novels get this blank look and the inevitable question - paranormal?
And several years ago I would immediately have gone
into defensive mode. Well, it's just this little sub-genre of romance, features magic, vampires, you know that sort of thing. Um, frantically hiding the book I'm currently reading and wishing it was Shakespeare or at the very least Michael Crichton.
Now, I tend to roll my eyes first and then go on the offensive. Seriously? Have you been living under a rock? PNR romance is everywhere, including the bestseller lists.
I no longer recognise the PNR genre (my ultimate favourite) as anything less than great. I no longer hide the book cover when I'm reading on a plane. I don't hesitate to tell people what I'm actually reading when they ask - hey, they asked, and they deserve exactly what they get when I invariably now go on to tell them in great detail what the story is about.
The only bad/crappy books out there are those where the grammar is bad, the story is woeful and the characters one-dimensional.
So when the next person asks you what type of books you like to read - follow my advice - square your shoulders, look them right in the eye and tell them.
They might roll their eyes and dismiss you as having poor taste (and we should only pity them) - or you might just have made a convert to the wonderful, exciting, world of PNR.
Oh, and the television I have watched and adored over the years all too often has seemed to make others shudder in despair at my taste.
Though in my defence, many of those television shows are now considered classics; Buffy, Dark Angel, X-Files and a host of others.
It's funny, when I like a bad/crappy TV show or film - I tend to be the first to jump on the defensive band wagon. Saying things like, - I know its science fiction, but it's really good.
Some part of me recognises that my viewing tastes are not particularly high-brow (no master theatre episodes for me, thank you very much) - I love science fiction, I think the stories are imaginative, the characters are layered and seriously... some of the best angst ridden love stories come from these shows.
I think the same can be said for my reading habits. I still to this day, when I tell people that I write paranormal romance novels get this blank look and the inevitable question - paranormal?
And several years ago I would immediately have gone
into defensive mode. Well, it's just this little sub-genre of romance, features magic, vampires, you know that sort of thing. Um, frantically hiding the book I'm currently reading and wishing it was Shakespeare or at the very least Michael Crichton.
Now, I tend to roll my eyes first and then go on the offensive. Seriously? Have you been living under a rock? PNR romance is everywhere, including the bestseller lists.
I no longer recognise the PNR genre (my ultimate favourite) as anything less than great. I no longer hide the book cover when I'm reading on a plane. I don't hesitate to tell people what I'm actually reading when they ask - hey, they asked, and they deserve exactly what they get when I invariably now go on to tell them in great detail what the story is about.
The only bad/crappy books out there are those where the grammar is bad, the story is woeful and the characters one-dimensional.
So when the next person asks you what type of books you like to read - follow my advice - square your shoulders, look them right in the eye and tell them.
They might roll their eyes and dismiss you as having poor taste (and we should only pity them) - or you might just have made a convert to the wonderful, exciting, world of PNR.
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Dahrose
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Jan 30, 2016 04:10PM
With you on this - so tired of my friends looking down their noses at my reading habits just because it's not what they consider 'literature' - pity them? Yes, I think I do, they have no idea what they're missing out on.
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