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I've got nothing to say about romance novels. Most good novels have romance in them.
Steel's have bad sex, and bad romance, and are bad. Well, at least that is the extrapolation I make based on my admittedly limited sampling.
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It does. Which means that Simon must know at least 24 synonyms for the male genitalia.
Good grief.
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I knew a girl named Danielle Steel at CCRI.. if you even mentioned a romance novel around her, she'd punch you in the teeth.. she was so hot.. one of my favorite art majors..
anywho.
I actually watched a Danielle Steele movie adaptation with my stepmother during my trip home on Labor Day. i was just watiing for dinner, and my dad insisted i had a beer (or three), so i did.
It was Daddy. It had the father from Step by Step as the lead character, Captain Janeway was the mother, Kevin Uxbridge who killed all the Husnock everywhere was the grandfather, and the teen son was Bartleby the Angel, apparently before he had attained his everpresent 5:00 shadow (or his voice changing, to boot). and the music was done by Dennis McCarthy, and did include snippets of what would later become the Voyager theme. funny what you notice after a second Coors.
(BTW, i realize the above character list shows that i have absolutely no grounding in reality... i cant be bothered to remember actors names when i have such pertinent information such as who they played in my head)
The movie was awful, and every third scene ended up with people having sex and getting cut off before it got too graphic for mid 90s prime-time, or a really stilted melodramatic argument. And the worst acting ive ever seen (except for the pubescent Affleck). But the predictable ending of Patrick Duffy getting together with that chick from Dallas or Dynasty or whichever show that was she was in.
But my parents made a good grilled vegetable dinner while i was watching, and the satellite was screwed up so its not like i couldve watched MTV2 like i usually do.
What was i talking about? oh yeah.. this girl was a ceramics major.. and she was H-O-T.
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Don't you guys get, like, 6 billion channels on cable alone? There's bound to be at least ONE educative documentary (complete with voluntary censoring of the more sensitive anatomic areas) on mating habits, or something. But, I'm sure you're even wealthier than you already were for watching that adaptation.
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well, it was a rare occasion where my stepmother was not beig openly hostile, probably since my brother wasnt there, and it was her TV.. chancging the channel like i still lived there has been the source of open warfare in the past.
it begs the question of why the hell ive never been able to enjoy cable for more than three months in my life. when i visited RI for the summers and stayed with my dad and her, id have cable but not be allowed to watch it often. then i went for another decade without cable after those two or three fateful summers, to have my parents get a satellite RIGHT BEFORE I MOVE OUT. ultimate slap in the face. my whole childhood, deprived of music videos except when a friend taped them for me, no beavis & butthead likewise, or cartoon network, or nick at nite. I was forced to READ BOOKS. grr. now i'm smarter than the rest of the kids my age, and know nothing of their music awards! and as such have no common ground with which to base a stable relationship! all my sufferings, to this one cause!
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"Books about relationships are just soooo inferior to war and horror and sci-fi topics. ... Not that we don't fantasize about these things [sex] but writing them down is just sick and unacceptable because we all subscribe to Christian repression of sex whether we're Christian or not."
Erm... Have you ever actually read a sci-fi book? They all have fornication in them. All of them. And, if they have the words "by Robert A. Heinlein" on the cover, you're in for even more of a treat.
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All of them? 2001? Foundation? The Caves of Steel?
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Obviously, I was hyperbolizing. Though just barely. And Foundation was pretty boring, anyway, so what can you expect?
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I didn't find 2001 boring. This is the book we're talking about, of course, not the movie. The movie was mediocre by comparison.
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Not if you were on two or three doses while watching, which most of the audiences were at the time of its release.
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