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Why is it that not many girls like Fantasy?


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Until the fourth book this is true - sadly she has to become a vampire in order to be worth something, it seems. Even though I know how much flack this could get me, I'm going to go ahead and admit that I'm looking forward to the next Twilight movie :P I've already tried to explain that it's my biggest guilty pleasure since The Gilmore Girls or The Only Way is Essex.

I'm deeply offended that you equated Twilight and Gilmore Girls.

I know of several men on this board who enjoy urban fantasy, and I think if more of them would take the time to READ them and see that, NO, they are NOT vampire PRON necessarily, they would really like them. I made an ex-boyfriend of mine (or... I asked him to, I should say) to read the first Kim Harrison novel and although he didn't LOVE it, he did enjoy it. We just had different tastes in books all-around. In fact, I get SO TIRED of men (you know who you are) calling my Urban Fantasy PRON when there's more sex in Richard Morgan, GRRM, etc. than any of my UF. Not that I have a problem with it, mind you :P

It's not the sex, I think, but the focus of the books that makes people call it Sparkle Porn. They tend (from my limited experience and less limited reading about the experiences of others) to lean more romance then something like, say, GRRM or Richard Morgan.

Although I guess Morgan might count as romance for people with .... non-standard ideas of romantic behavior. :P

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I know of several men on this board who enjoy urban fantasy, and I think if more of them would take the time to READ them and see that, NO, they are NOT vampire PRON necessarily, they would really like them. I made an ex-boyfriend of mine (or... I asked him to, I should say) to read the first Kim Harrison novel and although he didn't LOVE it, he did enjoy it. We just had different tastes in books all-around. In fact, I get SO TIRED of men (you know who you are) calling my Urban Fantasy PRON when there's more sex in Richard Morgan, GRRM, etc. than any of my UF. Not that I have a problem with it, mind you :P

I agree. None of the books mentioned as being vampire or werewolf pr0n are actually pr0n. There is vampire and werewolf pr0n out there. But its not being marketed and packaged as Urban Fantasy. A sex scene or two and a romantic interest in a book does not make it pr0n. If it does, Tom Clancy writes pr0n too.

Btw Mandy, in reference to an earlier comment you made above, I got to meet Ilona Andrews this past weekend - both the husband and wife. They were really nice. He was totally the strong and silent type and you could tell he was ex-military. She was really sweet and a bit giddy that she had just met Charlaine Harris.

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Ok, maybe I should have said... Deadliest Catch. Does that count as a guilty pleasure? I don't know. I want to be an Alaskan Crab Fisherwoman now.

Well, Deadliest Catch does have a bunch of characters with hard exoskeletons and no personality.

Do they sparkle too?

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Ummm.... nothing sparkles in the Bering Sea except the light from heaven as you die from hypothermia when the Coast Guard can't save you from your capzized ship that got hit by a rogue wave!!!

Not even the ice crystals that grown from the eternal spume?

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Speaking of that kind of thing, a love for Bakker would be a total deal-breaker for me.

Haha, indeed! :lol:

The inspiration for my little appendix riff was basically "Oh my God, does Raids hate Bakker."

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Speaking of deal breakers, remember that guy that came in and posted about how he was reading the WoT prequel and was worried about the extreme feminism, and wondered when the rape would start?

That's why girls don;t read fantasy. Us males are creepy sick pervs.

Edit: I should just switch my semicolon and quotes key. Seriously.

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I know of several men on this board who enjoy urban fantasy, and I think if more of them would take the time to READ them and see that, NO, they are NOT vampire PRON necessarily, they would really like them. I made an ex-boyfriend of mine (or... I asked him to, I should say) to read the first Kim Harrison novel and although he didn't LOVE it, he did enjoy it. We just had different tastes in books all-around. In fact, I get SO TIRED of men (you know who you are) calling my Urban Fantasy PRON when there's more sex in Richard Morgan, GRRM, etc. than any of my UF. Not that I have a problem with it, mind you :P

My SO reads and enjoys the Hollows series and the Dresden Files. I'm trying to get him to start Chris Wooding's Retribution Falls as well, and Aaronovitch's Rivers of London cos I am certain he'd love the crap out of them. I trend more towards the epic stuff than he does (I think he would rather eat his shoes than read the Silmarillion for instance) and he trends more towards UF and Comics, but I don't hold us up as any typical couple since well, we're probably not. :P (in a good way mind you, but still.)

So have we come to the conclusion then that almost as many women read fantasy, but that we hide our geekiness better than men?

One convention meetup with the BWB and that would have been obvious :P

I think we have to or people give us funny looks. Like, I made a Cthuluh joke at work the other day and people were like "????? wat?" I have a feeling they think I am into really crazy hentai or squid stuff now.

Nobody has even heard of the Game of Thrones TV series. Some people at another department saw my GoT desktop at a meeting and were all !!!! and now won't stop asking me ASOIAF related questions, but the people I work with? No. I doubt they even went to see LOTR in the cinema and even my mother did.

Speaking of deal breakers, remember that guy that came in and posted about how he was reading the WoT prequel and was worried about the extreme feminism, and wondered when the rape would start?

That's why girls don;t read fantasy. Us males are creepy sick pervs.

Oh yeah, thanks for reminding me of that guy. :crying:

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Everyone seems to have seen it. There was a reference to Tyrion on a local comedy show a few weeks ago. I did make a fantasy rec list for a friends fiancee a couple months ago after he read the series after watching the show and went looking for more though.

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Everyone seems to have seen it. There was a reference to Tyrion on a local comedy show a few weeks ago. I did make a fantasy rec list for a friends fiancee a couple months ago after he read the series after watching the show and went looking for more though.

Well, what can I say, I am envious. Clearly I am surrounded by philistines. :lol:

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Everyone seems to have seen it. There was a reference to Tyrion on a local comedy show a few weeks ago. I did make a fantasy rec list for a friends fiancee a couple months ago after he read the series after watching the show and went looking for more though.

This must be wrong. I distinctly remember mocking the very idea that a TV company would invest that much cash in a series that wasn't, and never looked likely to be, finished, back when the rumour first came out. Therefore, as I'm never wrong*, there can't be a TV series, which is why I've never seen it. QED

* If anyone mentions monetarism, the Iraq War, my criticism of the Long Price Quartet or the 1980s, I'm going home

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Speaking of deal breakers, remember that guy that came in and posted about how he was reading the WoT prequel and was worried about the extreme feminism, and wondered when the rape would start?

Wait, it doesn't?! Thanks for ruining my gang-rape fantasy by the pond! *takes New Spring from the shelf and sets it on fire in the middle of the room, moaning maniacally*

Totally OT, but is your name an EG_Idra reference?

If it was, it would've been Gracken21 and he would've rage-quitted the thread long ago!

P.S. Naniwa

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