Comments on: What Do You Think of Romance Novels? http://popculturecurmudgeon.com/2009/04/what-do-you-think-of-romance-novels/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Pop culture news and analysis Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:03:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Sarah http://popculturecurmudgeon.com/2009/04/what-do-you-think-of-romance-novels/comment-page-1/#comment-196 Sarah Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:31:28 +0000 http://popculturecurmudgeon.wordpress.com/?p=661#comment-196 Like the people who commented on Meghan's, I wonder if she has actually read romance novels and better yet, knows what "romance novels' constitute being. And Katie, I agree with you very much. Like the people who commented on Meghan’s, I wonder if she has actually read romance novels and better yet, knows what “romance novels’ constitute being.

And Katie, I agree with you very much.

]]> By: katie71483 http://popculturecurmudgeon.com/2009/04/what-do-you-think-of-romance-novels/comment-page-1/#comment-197 katie71483 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 22:38:02 +0000 http://popculturecurmudgeon.wordpress.com/?p=661#comment-197 It is unfortunate that romance novels have a stigma attached. Their main purpose is to provide people with 1) an escape and 2) a happy ending. You know what you are getting when you pick one up. That is the whole reason you pick up a romance novel! Granted there are almost always some bumps along the way for the heroine and/or hero, but eventually you get your happy ending. I find it interesting that if said novel doesn't have a happy ending it generally gets elevated to "historical fiction" which for some reason isn't looked down on quite as much. I'm not sure why romance books and authors are looked down on. The authors just as much research and put just as much effort into their works as "mainstream" authors. (I put quotes around mainstream since romance novels actually sell better in many cases.) Heck, if you go by the happy ending qualification, one of literature's most respected novelists, Jane Austen, was a romance novelist. Okay, I'll climb down off my soapbox now. It is unfortunate that romance novels have a stigma attached. Their main purpose is to provide people with 1) an escape and 2) a happy ending. You know what you are getting when you pick one up. That is the whole reason you pick up a romance novel! Granted there are almost always some bumps along the way for the heroine and/or hero, but eventually you get your happy ending. I find it interesting that if said novel doesn’t have a happy ending it generally gets elevated to “historical fiction” which for some reason isn’t looked down on quite as much.

I’m not sure why romance books and authors are looked down on. The authors just as much research and put just as much effort into their works as “mainstream” authors. (I put quotes around mainstream since romance novels actually sell better in many cases.) Heck, if you go by the happy ending qualification, one of literature’s most respected novelists, Jane Austen, was a romance novelist.

Okay, I’ll climb down off my soapbox now.

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