*head desk*

[shipperx]

I'm reduced to hate-listening to the audible romance novel I mentioned yesterday.

I swear to god, the pretty pink princess heroine...

 Reads Greek, Latin, French, Italian, Shakespeare, Decartes, the Aenid, Austen,... and loves art, architecture, history and mathematics... and is versed flower arranging, sewing, cookery, and gardening... and is brilliant, humble, demur... and is generous,  kind and selfless... and  is beloved by all servants and in-laws alike (though not her family.  Of course.). .. and is almost preternaturally gifted with animals... AND LITERALLY RESCUES PUPPIES AND DROWNED KITTENS, and is generally -- and in almost every way -- perfect.

And yet...is also the unappreciated ugly duckling to her beautiful, diamond of the first water IDENTICAL TWIN SISTER. I'm not entirely sure how one becomes the ugly duckling to one's very own IDENTICAL twin, but she's managed to do it.

Dear lord, I think I hate her. The 'hero' is still nothing but a distant amalgam of cliches (though he REEKS of sexist bullshit) but on the whole isn't involving enough to drive me to dreams of unicorn goring (though I would not object to it).  The pretty pink princess on the other hand...  Dear lord.

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[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Ah, she wrote The Mary Sue romance novel? LOL! Oh dear. You've actually found one that's worse than some of my bottom dwellers. (Although I take that back - The Flesh Cartel - was so unreadable that I gave it back to Amazon for credit after only reading four chapters). Erotica...can actually be a worse genre than the romance genre, just saying. I think it too is maligned for a reason.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

Total Mary Sue. The Sue-iest of the Sues.

And, yeah, erotica can run the same sort of gamut. From pure WTHell? to the hot, to the unbelievably saccharine. (And every once in a while, the physical improbable...)

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

There were two that I tried to read in the erotica category...and they managed to fall into the WTH and the improbability categories - actually they outdid some of the more obscure and insane Buffy fanfic.

The e-book world can be a scarey place.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

e-books are scary. They can be such jaw-dropping crap if you aren't careful.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's probably good to keep in mind that you get what you paid for.
(Neil Gaiman recently announced that his last book The Ocean at the End of the Lane was on sale via Kindle at $7.99...and I thought, that's the sale price? Dude, that's expensive, e-books technically shouldn't be more than $9.99 and people really complain when they are more than that. Talk to me when it's $!.99. Although, I am seriously tempted.)

I've read a lot of .99 books on the Kindle, and suffice it to say - I got what I paid for. I spent half the time correcting the grammar and sentence structure in my head. One was so annoying...I gave up.

[shipperx.livejournal.com]

I'm starting to toy with paying for Prime so that I can have the 'lending library' aspect.

[shadowkat67.livejournal.com]

Haven't used it as much as I thought for the lending library books...but it does provide savings for some books (discounted) and free shipping (which is nice).