That's enough.. Twilight
Nov. 17th, 2009 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I took advantage of my day off and went up town today. I went in Borders and found this -

Since when has paranormal romance been a literary genre?! You can see the Romance section just behind it. There's a Sci-Fi/Horror section to the right and now we have freaking PARANORMAL ROMANCE???!!!
Okay. This shit has gone far enough now.
Dark, brooding, tortured vampires = SEXY but HORROR.
Vampires that seduce humans in order to drink their blood and each other just for fun = SEXY but HORROR.
Murderous, psychotic, blood guzzling monster vampires = HORROR (but SEXY).
Vampires that sparkle and dazzle and girls that would need a personality just to be classed as Mary Sues = DO. NOT. WANT.
Paranormal romance? We'll have Mills & Boon does vampires next.

Since when has paranormal romance been a literary genre?! You can see the Romance section just behind it. There's a Sci-Fi/Horror section to the right and now we have freaking PARANORMAL ROMANCE???!!!
Okay. This shit has gone far enough now.
Dark, brooding, tortured vampires = SEXY but HORROR.
Vampires that seduce humans in order to drink their blood and each other just for fun = SEXY but HORROR.
Murderous, psychotic, blood guzzling monster vampires = HORROR (but SEXY).
Vampires that sparkle and dazzle and girls that would need a personality just to be classed as Mary Sues = DO. NOT. WANT.
Paranormal romance? We'll have Mills & Boon does vampires next.
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Date: 2009-11-17 11:02 pm (UTC)Mind you, it could be worse - Cambridge Waterstones had a "Lady and the Vamp" section heading for a while. I'm not even making this up. *headdesk*
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Date: 2009-11-17 11:16 pm (UTC)Haha, that's kinda awesome in a very disturbing and sad way. I think someone at that store had too much time on their hands!
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Date: 2009-11-18 12:55 am (UTC)It's the end of the world as we know it ... but not feeling fine.
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Date: 2009-11-18 04:37 am (UTC)Most store I've seen have:
Sci-Fi
"Fiction".
Then 20 genres for non-fiction.
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Date: 2009-11-18 06:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-11-19 06:54 am (UTC)Considering how much money historicals bring In, I'm shocked that this isn't sparking anger in the Romance novel community.