The Adnostic

I love reading fantasy/science fiction novels. Ha! Ha! Laugh now, feel the cutting force of my imaginary light saber later, foolish mortal!

I usually have trouble finding the Sci-Fi section at the local bookstore, so I resort to an old trick of looking for the glaringly obvious romance section with the knowledge that the Sci-Fi books are usually in the next aisle down. I hate the fact I have to do this, because I loathe romance novels (sometimes referred to as "bodice rippers"), and their proximity to each other gives the location of my favored genre the feeling of Siberia. It is as though I read novels that belong in a leper colony.

Why? Why do I hate something based on the mythology of romance while I enjoy other novels based on all kinds of other myths? Because it's not a mythology, it's porn. Sure, it's porn geared towards women, therefore it has the striking element known as a plot, which is fundamentally absent from most mainstream pornography, but it's still porn.

And the covers are the worst part! No romance dust jacket would be complete without submissive women who swoon at the very sight of a heaving steroid filled set of pectorals. (Gag!)

This is why I could not be happier when Longmire started "improving" romance novel covers with better (and far more befitting) titles. I almost had a laughing fit in my cubicle. This one was my favorite:

Check the rest of them out. Laugh until you cry.