tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post6706496947936759448..comments2024-03-22T05:18:29.555-04:00Comments on Romance Bandits: Let the Punishment Fit the Crime!Loucinda McGary aka Aunty Cindyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02217492654108300014noreply@blogger.comBlogger103125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-26460120497158466872011-07-11T19:18:00.222-04:002011-07-11T19:18:00.222-04:00Wow, Pat, that's some seriously mean devils yo...Wow, Pat, that's some seriously mean devils you've got hanging around the house. Make sure you hang some garlic on the door and put salt on the window sills! Any devils that would steal your signed Anna Campbells really need to be kept out BIG TIME!!!! ;-)Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-91517216101900847352011-07-11T19:17:07.658-04:002011-07-11T19:17:07.658-04:00Oh, Laurie, that banging you over the head with in...Oh, Laurie, that banging you over the head with information thing really does get a bit much, doesn't it? Great choices of book torments!Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-33617718187662496682011-07-11T19:16:35.088-04:002011-07-11T19:16:35.088-04:00Ooh, Artemis, you sound like a compulsive reader j...Ooh, Artemis, you sound like a compulsive reader just like me! I've read many the back of a cereal box!Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-51809857047611795292011-07-11T16:02:38.657-04:002011-07-11T16:02:38.657-04:00Book Hell for me would be having all
the Devilish ...Book Hell for me would be having all<br />the Devilish Ones swoop into my home<br />and remove each and every book in the<br />house, including all my Anna Campbell<br />signed books! Additionally the Devils<br />would place a spell on the house which<br />kept anyone from ever bringing another<br />book in! That would be Hell for me and<br />all the tears I shed would never, ever<br />extinguish the flames!Pat Cochranhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11997396930842831460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-3299952852156312912011-07-11T07:20:45.416-04:002011-07-11T07:20:45.416-04:00I hate hanging endings where you have to wait for...I hate hanging endings where you have to wait for the next book to find out what happens next.<br /><br />I dislike missing pages, smeared ink...<br /><br />Book hell is repetition recapping.. again and again and again...I got it the 1st time.<br /><br />Excessive swearing or violence to people or animals.Laurie Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12533221100348874087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-91286699792945144752011-07-10T21:06:06.279-04:002011-07-10T21:06:06.279-04:00Oh, Linda, no, that's terrible about the confi...Oh, Linda, no, that's terrible about the confiscation! How awful. Hugs. I had something like that happen with a prize I gave away in the Middle East. And I swear there was nothing particularly shocking in anything I sent (it was a package of books which added insult to injury).Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-87793383408300556612011-07-10T21:04:28.285-04:002011-07-10T21:04:28.285-04:00Ooh, Romance Nazis, Di! That's pretty much boo...Ooh, Romance Nazis, Di! That's pretty much book hell there. And then nothing to read at all? That's just a cruel thought.Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-21491742038211923932011-07-10T21:03:48.913-04:002011-07-10T21:03:48.913-04:00Hi Musing! Welcome to the Banditas. We love Aussie...Hi Musing! Welcome to the Banditas. We love Aussies here - which is good because I'm one and so is the fabulous Christina Brooke. Oh, what a horrible thought, never to be able to buy a paper book again! That is book hell indeed. I complain about all the books lying around my place but really I LOVE them!Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-73476626602935198872011-07-10T20:59:53.005-04:002011-07-10T20:59:53.005-04:00Reading the most amazing book that has me gripping...Reading the most amazing book that has me gripping the edge of my seat in excitement, weeping buckets (u get the gist) only to find the last chapter missing! <br /><br />Or buying the loveliest batch of books online only to hv them confiscated by the local customs for containing "unsuitable content". It's happened to me 3 times already *sighs*Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10796250279878652019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-60572579908596329412011-07-10T20:57:30.229-04:002011-07-10T20:57:30.229-04:00The worst Book Hell for me would be if there were ...The worst Book Hell for me would be if there were NO BOOKS TO READ ... AT ALL. It would be bad enough if there were no HEA's or no Romance Books at all (they were all confiscated by the mean Romance Nazi's). But if I could keep reading something I could survive. But nothing to read at all would truly be H-E-souble hockey sticks!Dihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17621358091229477687noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-10019606391346498232011-07-10T19:35:07.512-04:002011-07-10T19:35:07.512-04:00My personal hell would be to never OWN a book agai...My personal hell would be to never OWN a book again. I love my books - I am very proud of my library (I have taken over a spare bedroom and lined it with shelves and put in a comfy armchair) and even though I can see the advatages for ebooks and ebook readers, I just can't go past a real paper book. Nothing better then sitting in fron of the fire (its winter in Australia) with my Hubby and my furr babies (lab & chihuahua), a good paperback and a cup of hot chocolate.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-5676899364125170992011-07-10T19:31:45.803-04:002011-07-10T19:31:45.803-04:00Janga, what a fabulous list. Here - I've moved...Janga, what a fabulous list. Here - I've moved over, you may share my Queen of the Imps throne! Sorry about blogger - heard from a few people they're having troubles today. Oh, I laughed at your idea of book hell. Actually when I travelled around Europe in the mid-80s, it got close to book hell as I couldn't find anything in English I wanted to read. Discovered a few authors I really liked, read a few books I didn't think I would like but I did (George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London was surprisingly fascinating, for example), read a lot of stuff that made me want to throw it against the wall. Definitely makes the invention of the e-reader sound like a good idea, doesn't it?Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-67889837388003577872011-07-10T19:16:16.588-04:002011-07-10T19:16:16.588-04:00What a fun post, Anna! Your Book Hell has far more...What a fun post, Anna! Your Book Hell has far more circles than does Dante’s Inferno. LOL<br /><br />Book Hell is being given a stack of books to review and all of them being written in prose of varying shades of purple.<br /><br />Book Hell is rereading being declared illegal.<br /><br />Book Hell is being snowed in for a week in a mountain cabin with nothing to read but <i>Finnegans Wake</i> by James Joyce and a half dozen novels by Nicholas Sparks. (I think I’d opt for Joyce.)<br /><br />Book Hell is being on a desert island and discovering the only thing to read is <i>Moby Dick</i>.<br /><br />I had a fifth one, but Blogger ate my first post, and I’ve forgotten #5. Now, that’s another idea: Book Hell is forgetting all the wonderful books I’ve read over a lifetime and remembering only those that were torturous (like <i>Moby Dick</i>).<br /><br />And I just remembered my first #5: Book Hell is having a stack of new books to read and finding the heroes are all faux alphas, with not a true alpha, gamma, or beta (much beloved by this reader) among them.Jangahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15128188159653860806noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-25399382601543279342011-07-10T17:24:03.995-04:002011-07-10T17:24:03.995-04:00Nancy, thanks so much for persisting. And apologie...Nancy, thanks so much for persisting. And apologies to anyone else who's had trouble getting on today. Clearly, Blogger decided Sunday was the day of rest! So glad you got a kick out of the post - the whole idea of Book Hell really sparked my imagination. Hope I NEVER go there!!!!Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-53486415943375772692011-07-10T17:13:30.366-04:002011-07-10T17:13:30.366-04:00Danielle, congrats on the rooster!
Anna, Blogger ...Danielle, congrats on the rooster!<br /><br />Anna, Blogger has been seriously wonky today. Glad I got through at last.<br /><br />What a fun post! Book hell is any sort of missing pages. I actually got one that had the last 5 missing. I took it back to the store, and the clerk found one, or the six on the shelves that had those pages. I leafed through it, checking pages #s, before I walked out again, just to be sure.<br /><br />In the larger scheme, not being able to get the concluding book of a series would be horrible. Especially if it's an escalating plot arc, like the Nightkeepers series. Or LOTR. Gak, that'd be awful!Nancyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13705259501965011703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-6730000979019845722011-07-10T16:28:20.508-04:002011-07-10T16:28:20.508-04:00Wow, Donna, those are some really MEEEEEEAAAAANNNN...Wow, Donna, those are some really MEEEEEEAAAAANNNN Book Hell suggestions. And I always thought you were so nice! LOL! Oh, I hear you on the no editing thing! It would be terrifically scary!!! I can see a stage where I get an e-reader just because I can increase the size of the print. Read a book this week which had such teeny weeny print, it was obviously published for the mouse audience!Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-8771463557881687422011-07-10T16:26:10.986-04:002011-07-10T16:26:10.986-04:00What a great post, Anna! I'm loving...hating ...What a great post, Anna! I'm loving...hating these comments. The one about missing chapters in the middle of the book? - That happened with one of my books!!!! A reader contacted me about the problem in one of the hard comvers. I sent her a new one then returned the bad one to the company, but boy...I felt so bad about the delays!<br /><br />Book hell for me would be if there were no editors and every book was so full of typos and problems that you couldn't understand what you were reading (can you tell I've been judging contests?) Can we just say a special prayer for the editors? (grin).<br /><br />Book hell for me would be not being able to read as well. My eyesight is so bad, I've contemplated learning braille as an advance measure! Hope things never come to that.<br /><br />Finally, book hell would be no fiction. Not even bad fiction. I would hate that.Donna MacMeanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10310857800824141312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-86116999051155642762011-07-10T16:24:58.561-04:002011-07-10T16:24:58.561-04:00Wow, you girls really do have diabolical imaginati...Wow, you girls really do have diabolical imaginations. Who knew? I thought you were all sweet little things! Snort!Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-51911887172534125722011-07-10T16:24:19.432-04:002011-07-10T16:24:19.432-04:00Oh, no, Rose May, that's 'orrible. I remem...Oh, no, Rose May, that's 'orrible. I remember judging a contest entry once that had no paragraph breaks. So it was basically 70 pages of solid text. Still remember how hard that was to read!Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-7918480268573801292011-07-10T16:23:20.849-04:002011-07-10T16:23:20.849-04:00Book Hell - where punctuation and capitalization a...Book Hell - where punctuation and capitalization are lost forever. No spacing, either. Just a continuous series of letters one right after another. You decide where the beginning and end of each sentence, word, and phrase is. Could you imagine? Books as continuous streams of lowercase letters for pages and pages? I would just cry. That would be all it takes for me.Rose Mayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05935725914442898040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-11178229211810554352011-07-10T16:21:03.831-04:002011-07-10T16:21:03.831-04:00Chey, I know what you mean - it's odd, when I ...Chey, I know what you mean - it's odd, when I HAVE to read a book, it automatically loses some of its appeal. Mind you, if it then turns out to be great, it can gain its appeal back again.Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-41350235174467382342011-07-10T16:20:19.077-04:002011-07-10T16:20:19.077-04:00Oh, Candy, that annoys me too - especially when so...Oh, Candy, that annoys me too - especially when something promises me that I'll get an ending. Hear you!!!!Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-79742042981309038392011-07-10T16:18:20.928-04:002011-07-10T16:18:20.928-04:00Sheila, there's been a couple of really assini...Sheila, there's been a couple of really assinine articles in supposedly learned journals lately about how romance novels destroy women's lives (that's clearly something I do when I'm playing Queen Imp!). Maybe the Congress thing isn't too far from reality. And isn't that scary? What annoys me is that these ridiculous opinion pieces (they're little else - they have no research to back them up, obviously) get space in the media that they just don't deserve so all the stupid old cliches are just replayed and replayed as though saying something stupid a hundred times makes it less stupid than saying it once. <br /><br />Hmm, you can see I'm annoyed, can't you?Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-16112569833463842152011-07-10T16:16:18.620-04:002011-07-10T16:16:18.620-04:00Wow, Louisa, you've put a lot of thought into ...Wow, Louisa, you've put a lot of thought into Book Hell! Clearly it's something that's been preying on your mind before this! What an amazing list of horrible things that could go wrong with our reading plans. I think I might have to abdicate and make you Queen Imp!Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3815530646091177574.post-40341616856268590132011-07-10T16:13:06.167-04:002011-07-10T16:13:06.167-04:00Virginia, the wait for the series thing is diaboli...Virginia, the wait for the series thing is diabolical, isn't it? I definitely hear you. Oh, no TBR pile? I'd go spare!!!! Mind you, no fears of that happening here soon!Anna Campbellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06695579361323275316noreply@blogger.com