That's enough.. Twilight

[pyroyale]

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.

Comments

[faithinfire.livejournal.com]

UGH. Thank you for this rant, I completely agree and here is a "me too" for your collection. *s*

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*

[pyroyale.livejournal.com]

"Lady and the Vamp"???

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!

[karadin.livejournal.com]

Let's all sing!

It's the end of the world as we know it ... but not feeling fine.

[konami.livejournal.com]

Well, that's pretty dumb. But you know what's worse? Book stores with a total lack of genre definition on fiction.

Most store I've seen have:
Sci-Fi
"Fiction".

Then 20 genres for non-fiction.

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

To Twilight:

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[one-more-cherry.livejournal.com]

Oh God, I don't believe they gave it a whole SECTION.

Considering how much money historicals bring In, I'm shocked that this isn't sparking anger in the Romance novel community.