Comments on: A Very Dystel Valentine http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/02/a-very-dystel-valentine/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 15:15:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.15 By: Lynda Kay http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/02/a-very-dystel-valentine/comment-page-1/#comment-20867 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 03:39:38 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=5403#comment-20867 I was surprised how taken I was with the story Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens. Proving you can be a bit of a poop, and still write strong female characters with an interesting love story. I’ve often wondered if Mr. Dickens didn’t “borrow” the character Dorit from Jane Austens Persuasion. Never the less it proves it still worked.

Is it the most romantic. I guess not. I guess to reiterate what most females think doesn’t widen the choices. Us girls know no one knew how to steal a womans heart with their pens better than Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte.

]]> By: Janice Lane Palko http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/02/a-very-dystel-valentine/comment-page-1/#comment-20800 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:07:05 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=5403#comment-20800 The first few books of Diana Gabaldon’s OUTLANDER series are very romantic. It’s the rare book that make me cry, but the first one did.

Also, as a child my favorite book of all times was LITTLE WOMEN. The romance between Laurie and Beth was meant to be in my mind. I’m still angry that Laurie married the spoiled Amy.

]]> By: Stacey http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/02/a-very-dystel-valentine/comment-page-1/#comment-20791 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 21:55:02 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=5403#comment-20791 Since I didn’t have a chance to weigh in on this fun question, I thought I’d do so here as well. THE GIANT’S HOUSE by Elizabeth McCracken is an unusual, beautiful, poignant, and very different sort of love story. Well worth checking out.

]]> By: Janet B Taylor http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/02/a-very-dystel-valentine/comment-page-1/#comment-20783 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:24:33 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=5403#comment-20783 OUTLANDER by Diana Gabaldon for fun and I gotta go kinda dark with you, Jim– what about Bram Stoker’s Dracula? I’m not much of a fan of today’s vamps, but man, that Vlad was a lover..

And..uh, Michael.. Flowers in the Attic? What’s your sister’s phone number? I’m calling her right now!! Run!

]]> By: Mare http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/02/a-very-dystel-valentine/comment-page-1/#comment-20782 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 17:31:36 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=5403#comment-20782 I’m with Yat Yee Chong — many of these made me laugh. “Flowers in the Attic” — hilarious because, at 12 (when I read it) I couldn’t put it down. Romance? Um………yeah. That’s all I have.

I’m also a huge fan of “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.” I’ll go with that one.

]]> By: Yat Yee Chong http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/02/a-very-dystel-valentine/comment-page-1/#comment-20777 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 04:41:52 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=5403#comment-20777 The most inappropriate list made me laugh.

If this question had come up a month ago before I re-read Pride and Prejudice after a long time, I’d say Darcy and Elizabeth. I am not as fond of their romance at the moment. And the stories of love that are appearing in my mind are not romantic love: Almondine’s love for Edgar in Edgar Sawtelle; the fierce love between mother and son in Room; the brotherly/best friends love between Biff and Joshua in Christopher Moore’s Lamb.

This question will be bugging me for days.

]]> By: Donna Hole http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/02/a-very-dystel-valentine/comment-page-1/#comment-20776 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 02:02:05 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=5403#comment-20776 I think Michael and I could swap stories over a glass of wine :)

I read very little true romance, so can’t think of any books. But, Terry Goodkind’s SWORD OF TRUTH series was technically a romance, and so is DAUGHTER OF THE EMPIRE by Raymond E Feist. I’ll be STAR WARS episodes 1,2,3 could also be classified as romance. Hmm, I’ve read a couple Nora Roberts, and Nicholas Sparks.

Esmeralda dies in the Hunchback novel? Oh sad. I’ve only ever seent the movie (Disney), same with Gone With The Wind.

I like romance in a book or movie, but not the genre itself.

……..dhole

]]> By: Monica http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/02/a-very-dystel-valentine/comment-page-1/#comment-20774 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 01:14:50 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=5403#comment-20774 Ah, yes, Persuasion is my favorite Romantic book. I also love Wuthering Heights, I have read it multiple times and every time I get caught up hoping for a different ending.

I don’t think the book needs a happy ending to be qualified as a good romantic tale. What is important is that you get caught up in the love affair with the characters.

]]> By: Brodi Ashton http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/02/a-very-dystel-valentine/comment-page-1/#comment-20773 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:14:56 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=5403#comment-20773 Rachel totally stole my favorite book. Persuasion. That letter! Sigh.

]]> By: Caroline Tung Richmond http://www.dystel.com/blog/2011/02/a-very-dystel-valentine/comment-page-1/#comment-20772 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 22:45:26 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=5403#comment-20772 Esmeralda DIES in the book? B-But that’s not what happened in the Disney version!

Haha. :)

Hmm, as for my own favorite romances…

In YA, I really love Anna and the French Kiss because it’s set in Paris and because it features wonderful writing and a fabulous love interest.

In adult fiction, I’d probably pick Possession by A.S. Byatt. The romance in it is rather heartbreaking, but I love how two of the main characters fall in love through letters and poetry.

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