I think people want to share their favourites with you because it seems like you're willing to read the genre but haven't found anything really good yet. So they want to give you books they think you'll love! And you'll be a convert! They are probably mostly wrong, but I think the recs are coming from a relatively good place. :) I suspect romance readers get a lot of flak most of the time and want to prove a point. Like how if anyone writes about fanfiction being terrible there's a flood of people jumping in to say OH THAT'S NOT TRUE.
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Date: 2011-05-29 02:00 pm (UTC)From:I think people want to share their favourites with you because it seems like you're willing to read the genre but haven't found anything really good yet. So they want to give you books they think you'll love! And you'll be a convert! They are probably mostly wrong, but I think the recs are coming from a relatively good place. :) I suspect romance readers get a lot of flak most of the time and want to prove a point. Like how if anyone writes about fanfiction being terrible there's a flood of people jumping in to say OH THAT'S NOT TRUE.
Again: great post!