Post by Banana Boat on Oct 14, 2017 8:14:04 GMT -7
I can't tell you how many books I've DNF due to one sex scene after another with no story line. Its plain boring. I'm not sure who these authors are trying to target or if their writing skills are sub par and sex scenes are about all the can write. Its a waste of my time. π
Rant & Rave against alleged job-related Hollywood sexual harassment men: Harvey Weinstein, Ben Affleck and an Amazon original movies producer (unnamed by ABC-2020 last night). New Yorker mag has an article about this too. If true, this verbal suggestiveness and touchy/ feely/ violation of the body, is against the law. Ben reportedly fondled a woman on live TV ( not current day). I think I'll be sick for days if their defense is "boys will be boys."
I can't tell you how many books I've DNF due to one sex scene after another with no story line. Its plain boring. I'm not sure who these authors are trying to target or if their writing skills are sub par and sex scenes are about all the can write. Its a waste of my time. π
I totally agree. It is the connection that makes the sexy times sexy. It seems like a lot of author's depend on the sex to show the connection which, imo, it doesn't. Like you wrote, it is boring and a waste of time.
Rant & Rave against alleged job-related Hollywood sexual harassment men: Harvey Weinstein, Ben Affleck and an Amazon original movies producer (unnamed by ABC-2020 last night). New Yorker mag has an article about this too. If true, this verbal suggestiveness and touchy/ feely/ violation of the body, is against the law. Ben reportedly fondled a woman on live TV ( not current day). I think I'll be sick for days if their defense is "boys will be boys."
Dang. I really like Ben Affleck. I always hate it when someone who seems to be a decent human being turns out to be a scumbag. Of course, that being said, these guys have big targets on their backs and sometimes they are falsely accused or the media gets it wrong. I too would be sickened by the boys will be boys defense.
2nd rant: OK, so I know that this peeve is ridiculous and shallow but what is up with all the beards? Especially the long, crazy, ZZ Top beards. I am guessing they are in style and women find them sexy but no....just no...
I find beards can look good on some men, but they are rare a guy that can wear it well.
2nd rant: OK, so I know that this peeve is ridiculous and shallow but what is up with all the beards? Especially the long, crazy, ZZ Top beards. I am guessing they are in style and women find them sexy but no....just no...
I find beards can look good on some men, but they are rare a guy that can wear it well.
I completely agree. I normally am not a fan of facial hair but then someone like Tom Selleck comes along. He is much more attractive with his mustache. Usually I have to resort to male model Google pics looking for an attractive guy with a beard because otherwise I picture a stodgy professor type. Not sure why..lol
I am waiting and praying for the day when "lumbersexual" finally goes out of style. Fortuntely, it seems to be slowly happening in my country, I don't see as many ZZ-Top wannabees around. I can handle a neat, trimmed beard (although I prefer no beard at all), but the big bushy ones creep me out. I've read book descriptions that made me go "Gimme!" and then seen a hairy face on the cover and gone "Nope!". I read Penny Reid's Winston Brothers, but I would have enjoyed them more without those damned beards! *rant over*
Last Edit: Oct 15, 2017 2:04:18 GMT -7 by bookwyrm
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I am waiting and praying for the day when "lumbersexual" finally goes out of style. Fortuntely, it seems to be slowly happening in my country, I don't see as many ZZ-Top wannabees around. I can handle a neat, trimmed beard (although I prefer no beard at all), but the big bushy ones creep me out. I've read book descriptions that made me go "Gimme!" and then seen a hairy face on the cover and gone "Nope!". I read Penny Reid's Winston Brothers, but I would have enjoyed them more without those damned beards! *rant over*
Yes and lol at lumbersexual!
Like another poster wrote, I try to picture the guy without a beard but usually the author will reference the beard often so I cant discount it hence my need to search for attractive guys with beards on google.
The facial hair thingy reminded me of a discussion we had many moons ago on the KA goodreads board about her hero Luke, and the way his (very peculiar) mustache was described (and being KA you know it was a very detailed description! LOL) and how it had so many of us imagining a creepy 70s porn guy... we were all googling hot guys with mustaches to try to erase that picture. Me, I ended up resorting to imagining John Rich (the country singer) - the only halfway decent looking bloke who sported that style of lip decoration.
As for beards, not a huge fan even though my dad had one for most of my life and my brother-in-law sported a big, bushy, ginger, 5 inch long goatee (yeah, that, the tats and the shaved head had him looking like every stereotypical bikie you could imagine) for years - till the mine he works at brought in new safety regs and he's now unhappily smooth as a baby's butt, but suppose I don't mind a neat, trimmed, short one. What I really hate is the silly little tufty thing (a soul patch?) just under the middle of the bottom lip.
The facial hair thingy reminded me of a discussion we had many moons ago on the KA goodreads board about her hero Luke, and the way his (very peculiar) mustache was described (and being KA you know it was a very detailed description! LOL) and how it had so many of us imagining a creepy 70s porn guy... we were all googling hot guys with mustaches to try to erase that picture. Me, I ended up resorting to imagining John Rich (the country singer) - the only halfway decent looking bloke who sported that style of lip decoration.
As for beards, not a huge fan even though my dad had one for most of my life and my brother-in-law sported a big, bushy, ginger, 5 inch long goatee (yeah, that, the tats and the shaved head had him looking like every stereotypical bikie you could imagine) for years - till the mine he works at brought in new safety regs and he's now unhappily smooth as a baby's butt, but suppose I don't mind a neat, trimmed, short one. What I really hate is the silly little tufty thing (a soul patch?) just under the middle of the bottom lip.
OMG Neeta, you cracked me up with the 70s porn guy comment. KA did spend a ton of time describing and referring to that creepy 'stache. I looked at google pics and remember being disappointed because I couldn't find anyone that I wanted to picture while reading.