> and say that, out of sync with my high school- and college-mates, I could > never go more than a few pages of those Mills and Boons and Hermina Black > type of novels. These are the staple diet of generations of young women, so > I wonder what's wrong with my genetic makeup....because what I read at that > time were the Biggles books! >
Haha. I never read MandB growing up. Recently while I was cooped up in B'bay recuperating unable to travel much, I had no recourse but to pick some. The local library in Goregaon boasts an inexhaustible collection of MandB and only that. So I did end up reading those. And for a while wanted to write one myself, using same plot lines but bizarre characters. And most importantly, the same language -- his sword found its rightful place in the sheath types. :)
