Pet Peeves...
He's not one but I made ya look huh?
I thought long and hard about what I could say that would drum up some conversation and I think pet peeves will do the job. Looking up on Dictionary.com here's the definition...
Pet Peeve:
Something about which one frequently complains; a particular personal vexation.
Now, everyone has things that they frequently complain about. How the trash never gets taken out, or that the boys can't seem to pee in the HUGE hole in the toilet, but are those pet peeves?
Here's some...old people driving or people leaving their blinker on for miles or people saying smooch instead of kiss (that was my sister's response).
But let's bring it closer to home, this is an author blog right?
We all love to hate the TSTL heroine - To Stupid to Live. In Star Trek that's usually the one ensign that dies each episode, too bad we can't kill off those chicks huh? What about the SEE SAW effect? I love him, I don't love him, I do love him, I can't love him. AAAAHHHHHHH! That's me running screaming from the book.
Here's a new one I came across... and again, this is a personal one. Older authors, and I'm talking about ladies in their 50's of 60's that DON'T know how to write for the times. Don't get me wrong, some of our authors are that age but know what the heck they're doing when they write a sex scene or describe a hero so that any age reader can identify. Someone please tell me how a hero, who is sooooo suck in the 80's can be sexy today. Fannypacks? Muscle T's? Oh, not the one's that show off the muscles, I like those, but the ones that the cheesball weightlifters wear that are open from shoulder to waist in the arms? Oh, put those with a pair of cut offs and whew, aren't you wet with anticipation? Um, no, I'm running away screaming from the creepy guy in cutoffs with a fanny pack!
Now I know there is more but if I listed them then there wouldn't be anything for you to rant about now would there?
Oh, and I've got a Starbucks giftcard and mug for a blogger today too!
So, what's your book Pet Peeve?
SExed by Anonymous at 11:04 AM
22 Comments:
My pet peeve is so many books that are rich guy, poor girl. can't anyone write about real life?
Heroines with small feet, small waists, big boobs, hair to their waists and no experience with SEX.
TSTL is one of mine but mostly it's the heroes or heroines who do something stupid that makes me hate them.
I just read a book where the hero was plotting revenge. He used the heroine. Set her up for humiliation, a future rape attempt. And this is a hero how? I wanted to rip the pages from the book, set it on fire while shouting "Die, demon die!" Instead I forced myself to read it. Still wondering "Damn, how can the heroine forgive him? I can't? And now she's having sex with him? What is wrong with her?" Which then makes the heroine TSTL.
A read another book (same author which means I'll never buy another one of hers: two strikes and you're out baby) where the heroine exploited the hero's weakness. She caused physical pain to the hero. And this makes her a heroine how? And the hero falls in love with her why? That just makes the hero TSTL.
Bad motivation, bad characters and I will fling a book.
But really, I don't have any strong feelings about this at all.
I actually have 2. As an adopted girl, I don't like reading stories with adoption. Why? Because the character suddenly finds out (what? fictional parents don't tell them when they're a kid? I was told at 2) they're adopted, they hate the adopted family and then they "Don't know who they are". Ugh. I love my family. I know who I am (highly neurotic writer that I am). Ugh. I inevitably calmly close the book and then huck it as hard as I can out the balcony window where it plummets 4 stories down to the ground where, hopefully, the neighbor's noisy dog will take a pee.
Again, no strong feelings about this at all.
Anal retentive people. OMG, I have some very old, fussy little people who come in my office and drive me nuts with their nitpicking ways. You missed a comma here, you forgot to dot an 'i' there. And a couple of these guys you can tell were anal even when they were young. They're simply obsessive, boring, stick in the mud people.
That's my peeve.
Morning Paige!
Can I go off subject for just a second? Okay, good. My pet peeve of the morning is that you didn't tell me where to find more pictures of the hunk-a-hunk you teased us with at the start of your blog!
Michelle Hoppe
www.michellehoppe.com
Pet peeves, um, let's see. Other than the men and boys can't fit they're small stream of pee through the large circle I would have to say my pet peeve in a book, is the old vampire falls for innocent human trick. You ladies know the ones, vampire is out for whatever reason. Hunting. Sex. Food. All of the above. And along comes the innocent human woman, usually beautiful, big boobs has absolutely no idea vampires exist and then suddenly whamo she is a slave to his bite and can do nothing but love the poor misunderstood vampy.
My pet peeve in a book? Conflicts that can be resolved in less than five minutes if the hero and heroine would stop having angry sex and talk to each other!!
When a simple misunderstanding is drawn out over 150,000 words. It drives me crazy to the point I want to scream, get over it already and talk to the girl!!
Trista
Paige, darlin, pumpkin bread...
Does your wonderful hubby know about this secret stash of hotties you have? Do they fit nicely in a closet or did you rent a storge unit? ~grinz~
As for licking him...that's a good start OY!
Michelle Hoppe
www.michellehoppe.com
My pet peeve is, other than my MIL, would be stories where you need a dictionary, medical degree and law degree just to figure out what the heck they're talking about.
Great topic. And, super great hunk!
The model is definitely hot...but has anyone else noticed his tan is off? He's all nice and bronzed to the top of his chest, and then his neck and face are all...pale. Still lickable, though.
My pet peeves are heroines who put up with all sorts of nonsense that would have normal women screaming spousal abuse. Or virgins who are so completely witless, they need a good shake. Oooh, except in Lynsay Sands' ALWAYS. The heroine, Rosamunde, is a virgin, but she's hilarious! She completely throws the virgin-stereotype out the window. A really good book!
Lily (who is now inspired -- by Mr. Delicious -- to go out and find some, um, "candy")
My biggest pet peeve in books is when the woman is made out to be a dumb as a pile of rocks and the man is super intelligent.
Oh Please! Not all women are dense..LOL
I noticed about the tan too. Not that I get any further than his neck anyway. Face shmace.
As to the innocent heroines: to me there's a huge difference between innocent and naive. Ugh, the naive ones...come on. Read a romance or two, will ya. I can have an innocent-like heroine but if she's naive? Ugh. I feel like I have to sit down with her at the kitchen table to explain "the game" and then she gasps and says "I can't do that!" then I banish her mostly because my hero will become peeved with her, he'll growl, "See what I have to deal with? And I'm supposed to do what to her?"
I have a lot of peeves, apparently. Sigh. I suppose I should shut my pie hole (gawd...I miss pie. Why doesn't Jenny Craig have a chocolate cream pie I ask you?) and write huh?
One of my peeves is when the heroine is described as having such a tiny waist that the hero can span with his hands. Another peeve is the age difference between the hero and heroine. Hero is 40 and the heoine is 18.
>>rich guy
after all how many kazillionaires can there be?
Kid's are hard to write and babies? It's like a purse, the heroine (or hero) can't leave home without it.
Kate...TSTLGB? *g*
Poor characterization in any form will cause me to not finish a book. Esp (and this is close to Jenna's) when a writer recycles characters. Jenna I'm with you on the adoption thing--they very rarely get it right.
Tall heros? I wrote an average height hero once and got so much flack from my *former* critique group *ggg* but he's still 5'9 ;-)
Speaking of pet peeves I have an article to finish before someone comes and hunts me down.
You're mad so I'll distract you with sex sex: It works if afterwards they start fighting again. I read a scene like that and howled because the heroine picked up right where it left off. Danged if I can remember the book though. (another peeve...another day)
I'll blog when they tell me to blog. About what? (shrugs, looks around...how to avoid writing anything? cuz you'll notice I'm back and not writing. ahem.)
That's it. Last blog for me. Today at least. Tomorrow, as Annie belts it out, is only a day away.
First off, love the picture! I don't even care if his tan is fake.
Now, I guess my pet peeves are similar to several of the other ladies. I despise when the storyline veers off in so many directions that I get motion sickness from reading the book! I also hate when the book delves deeply into enough characters to fill a third world country. I mean I like to know who the hero and heroine are at least.
I really do not mind the virgin thing, unless you combine virgin and TSTL. If I'm reading about a twenty-something virgin that does not even know what a penis is or where it goes during sex, I find that a little unbelievable. It is one thing to be a virgin, it is another to be a moron! Buy an anatomy book for goodness sake.
Okay, I'll be quiet now. Generally, I at least like the books I read. There are very few I really hate, so overall I cannot complain.
Well, I guess I'll go take the garbage out. It's obvious my husband does not remember how Lol!
Zara
While this has already been mentioned; I'd have to say that my pet peeve is a combination of the poor virgin girl who gets saved by the rich wordly man and all their differences are overcome by having repeated sex.
I don't see why women have to be "saved" at all, whether they be virgins, poor or whatever else. I like heroines that are strong and independent and enjoy having sex.
I also think having great sex repeatedly is always a good thing; it's never solved any problems for me.
My biggest pet peeve is when a book consists of an endless array of sex scenes strung together without any real story and character development. I like to read hot sex scenes but it must contribute to the story.
I also hate the way villains are often portrayed as one dimensionally malicious or wicked. It just doesn't feel real. Another pet peeve is when a book end without any real conclusion or when it starts with a bang and ends with a whimper.
My pet peeve used to be that all the males had lots of experience and the females had none...a lot of books these days have changed this
>>sperm dumpster
HOWLING!!!!!!!!!
BTW I think the eye candy was photoshopped but who cares ;-)
Jenny I read a blog post from a friend of mine on writing really great villians--the ones you can almost empathise with. The ones with altruistic motives -- unfortunately I can't think of any off the top of my head.
Paige...it's with the CP now.
My pet peeveis... are whiners consonant complaint about crap that he or she can control.
Books that don't have happy ending that sucks weak plot and same old borely characters. For instance perfect hero and heroine no flaws perfect size give me sustain. I want to relate to these characters. When I spend $3.00-$16.00 on a book that suck that piss me off. I have others but I don't have time to list them all...
well thats my two scent...
Cinquetta
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