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06Jul2009

I laughed so hard I cried

DateMonday, July 6, 2009 at 04:22PM

This from Teh Resistance.  Is that Fabio?

My mother, she of the Ph.D. in History, used to LOVE romance novels.  She's read all of the Barbara Cartland oeuvre in Portuguese, because, believe it or not, it's a great way to brush up on your idioms because the books are formulaic and repetitive.  I was the only person in all of my Portuguese classes in college who knew how to say, "Wrinkled her brow.." in Portuguese ("frangiu a testa," if you must know).  She once lent me a book that she thought was great- a historical bodice-ripper about an Irish princess who marries an icky nobleman against her will but is kidnapped along with her trusty Irish Wolfhound on her wedding night before her icky husband gets the goods, by pirates who rape her and take her to North Africa and sell her into white slavery ("...she comes with the dog! Two for one!  Now how much would you expect to pay for this feisty Gaelic gal?!") ... all by page 17.  I kid you not.  I couldn't finish it.  It was 700 pages long.

 

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The historical bodice-ripper you mention sounds like Florence King's one venture into romance novels, "The Barbarian Princess", written under the pen name 'Laura Buchanan'. Her description of it's genesis and development in the essay "Sex and the Saxon Churl" is hilarious.
July 6, 2009 | Unregistered Commenteraelfheld
I was holding my nephew while reading that and my laughter frightened him!
July 7, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterRachel

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