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Ok, /lit/: what is the worst genre, and why is it romance?
My reasons:
Romance is an incredibly constraining genre, which is currently in its death throes. Romance authors have about one good idea every five years, which the rest of them clamp onto like sheep. Just look at Twilight - how many shitty ripoffs did that inspire? Then we get Hunger Games, an alright novel, but every fucking unoriginal Mary-Sue-writing cat lady latched on to "post-apocalyptic teen romance" as a genre, so we have 20 fucking billion of those flooding shelves every year.
Additional challenge: predict the next idiotic romance "spin."
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>>9191470
>genre
excuse me sir, this is a literature board not pleb central.
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>>9191470
Nowhere near as bad as sci-fi. People never shut the fuck up about the hitchikers guide to the galaxy. That bloated piece of convoluted trash.
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>>9191470
Fuck off. Romance is an amazing genre, where authors can focus in on the minutiae of the human mind and their characters without having to divert themselves with other things like fight scenes or making up technologies that don't make sense, or flashy magic and dragons and crap. When all an author has to worry about is the details of their characters and how they would and do interact, superior results are produced. Fact. Spreading yourself across multiple areas gives shitter results than exclusively paying attention to one idea. Fact. Go back to your macho-fantasy action novels filled with explosions and meaningless filler for characters.
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>>9191470
>Complain about romance
>Only mention popular trash as evidence for complaint
>Doesn't mention strong romance novel
Fucking kill yourself
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>>9191470
Also, why is every single goddamn cover for romance/erotic photoshopped shittily?
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>>9192182
plz mention it
i am in the throes of need atm
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>>9193090
why not?
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