My mother reads these all the time. The last one I looked at (maybe 10 years ago) had on the opening page two cops raping some indian prostitute in an alley.  :o

Also, what is with the lingo in these books? Especially when it comes to sex... I mean, NO ONE talks like this:

"As his turgid manliness entered my spring flower, I knew he could smell my sex..."

I mean, I can't even write stuff like what I've read because it's so silly!

:P

Ant

I have never ever ever gotten into these. They are just too weird for me.

However, I do own a copy of "The Story of O", but that's more erotica than anything.

Ok, I admit, I have read a few in my day (well, maybe a bit more than a few  ;) ).  My favorite is Jude Deveraux. She has written about a family through the ages-which is kind of cool. When she talks about one's character's parents, you "know" them from a different book. There was one of her books that give the genealogy of the characters and which book goes with them.

BTW, I HATE Harlequin. They are the WORSE!!!!



Cat

I read them on occasion.  But not like I did when I didn't have a man.  lol

I'm not a big fan of the historical kind, the wording is too...I dunno...arachic and proposterous for my liking.  I do like more of the modern-day ones, and especially the intrigue ones and horror (Vampire) type ones for some reason.
The time travel ones are interesting to the point where they start using the language as mentioned above.

lol I remember back in high school, my friend and I would often talk about writing our own, even though neither of us had had sex yet.  We figured we could fake the "coming together of two souls" when the time came.  But we never really got the project off the ground.  What might have been.  I coulda been a zillionaire by now.  lol