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Old 08-14-2018, 03:18 PM   #6201 (permalink)
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The literal first sentence of this starts off talking about romance. No, thanks.
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Love stories are usually pointless and take the focus away from the actual plot.

No, you got me, I am not 100% that there is one present in Catch 22, but, then, that begs the question as to why they would choose to begin the story that particular way.
If you think so, you probably need to read more stories about romance to challenge your assumptions. You just sound like a teenager who thinks romance is "only for girls".

(Even though it takes two to tango and there's barely a major literary writer in existence who hasn't written about romantic relationships in some way shape or form. Human experiences. Life, death, love, faith, etc... Major themes for a reason.)
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Old 08-14-2018, 04:24 PM   #6202 (permalink)
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Old 08-14-2018, 04:29 PM   #6203 (permalink)
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Old 08-14-2018, 05:23 PM   #6204 (permalink)
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Just picked up a copy of this recent repress of a 60's pulp fiction classic.

This review from an Amazon customer sums it up nicely...

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Books like this were once described somewhere as so cheap that someone could read them on the bus and leave them on the seat. Well, this reprint has all the marks. The text looks like an off-center, page-number-clipping Xerox, assumedly of the original. It's full of typos, usually just annoying, but occasionally so cryptic one has to stop and decode. And, sometimes, the latter are amusing, like "arms" misprinted as "anus".
The plot is, unsurprisingly, not reflected in the cover art, which appears to depict an older lesbian in conflict with a man over a woman. The story is, instead, little more than a device to link together the sexual encounters of a young car hop named Charlene. All the characters are, of course, excessively horny, and the uncontrolled jealousy and vengefulness that plague them result in battery, abduction, ravishment, ritualized S & M, and murder. (There's even erotic torture with turkey feathers!) The descriptions are rather explicit until they dissolve into oceanic movements as metaphors for the ultimate passion.
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Completely unlike my MO I've heard of those kinds of books that are all about American GI's dominating female Nazis in WW2. Have always been curious.
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Old 08-15-2018, 12:42 AM   #6206 (permalink)
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I know you can't read beyond a single sentence.
I have no reason to, the first sentence didn't capture my interest. Newsflash: That's how reading and other entertainment work; if they capture your interest you continue, if not you move on and maybe come back to it later. Maybe if you were more engaging with other people we could discuss the book and I'd have a reason to continue. You must be an awful book club member.

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If you think so, you probably need to read more stories about romance to challenge your assumptions. You just sound like a teenager who thinks romance is "only for girls".

(Even though it takes two to tango and there's barely a major literary writer in existence who hasn't written about romantic relationships in some way shape or form. Human experiences. Life, death, love, faith, etc... Major themes for a reason.)
That's a good suggestion, but every time I come across it in literature it feels the same. I will probably eventually give books like that another chance, but the romance angle drops them to the bottom of my to-do list. Heh, you'd be surprised how moot that argument is.

I know, that's the problem. Romance is injected into every plot for one contrived reason or another that it gets difficult to read something without losing interest. Luckily, there are a lot of books were it isn't too heavy of a focus or too distracting to where I can either skip it entirely or get through it quickly. Yeah, but the best stories usually don't follow the major themes and the cliches. An author usually sets out to tell a one of a kind story that separates itself from whats already there because it has something different to say.
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I have no reason to, the first sentence didn't capture my interest. Newsflash: That's how reading and other entertainment work; if they capture your interest you continue, if not you move on and maybe come back to it later. Maybe if you were more engaging with other people we could discuss the book and I'd have a reason to continue. You must be an awful book club member.
Unless it was some grammar horror fanfiction I don't think I've ever heard of someone opting out after the first sentence. Sounds to me like you have some hangups.
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I guess it was about the love between a WW2 bomber pilot and his fat Spanish housekeeper with lime-colored panties.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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Old 08-15-2018, 06:06 PM   #6209 (permalink)
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Unless it was some grammar horror fanfiction I don't think I've ever heard of someone opting out after the first sentence. Sounds to me like you have some hangups.
be nice, he works very hard to maintain his gimmick
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be nice, he works very hard to maintain his gimmick
So do I but I still read the first page before burning the book.
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