--- On Wed, 16/6/10, Nishant Shah <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Nishant Shah <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [silk] Ten toughest books to read
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, 16 June, 2010, 12:18
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Deepa Mohan <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm going to sharply bring down the level of the books being referred to, 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!
Deepa.
I read 28 MBs and 37 Georgette Heyers when I was in the first year of my Post
Graduation - I was doing my final term paper on the genealogy of romance
literature, tracing it from Aphra Ben through Jane Austen to popular romance
literature. It actually turned out to be more fun than I had expected. There
were some very creative ways of refering to sex, human genetalia and lust which
formed the fodder for much hilarity and bonding among friends :)
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Aaargh!
Georgette Heyer and sex!
Stop RIGHT THERE, young man, and go and wash your mouth out with yellow soap.
Come back when you are fit for civilised company.
