Comments on: Does The Blue Lagoon Count As Romance?

By: Tina Burns

Tina Burns — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:16:40 +0000

Sorry! TOTALLY OFF TOPIC: Karen! I need your expertise but I can’t find how to email you, can you email me please?

Thanks!

Tina
Liquid Silver Books

By: GrowlyCub

GrowlyCub — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:31:49 +0000

Harlequin tried the ‘non-fiction’ variety with the Everlasting Love line. I read 5 or 6 of them and they were all godawful and depressing as hell.

Harlequin killed the line, but they are now sticking them in with the SuperRomances which, to my mind, is a waste of good slots that could be used for better stories.

By: Dee Tenorio

Dee Tenorio — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:51:38 +0000

Totally missed it the first time round.

I probably only picked it up because I so desperately needed a reason to make MY cousins stop watching it, lol.

Wonder if we can get Harlequin to pick this up. Instead of a billionaire tycoon, we can have Joe Six-pack.

Oh, trust me, HQ has tons of Joe Six-packs. You have to pick what you want to DO with him to decide which one to pick up, lol.

By: Emmy

Emmy — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:35:15 +0000

I agree that ‘romance’ should have the HEA. Otherwise, put it in fiction.

I think it would be more aptly placed in ‘non-fiction’ since it’s more true to life, lol. Maybe we need to create a ‘reality’ romance genre. Wonder if we can get Harlequin to pick this up. Instead of a billionaire tycoon, we can have Joe Six-pack.

By: Karen Scott

Karen Scott — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:59:37 +0000

I didn’t realize they died. I’d have thought this one would fall under your “incest” purview, Karen, since they’re cousins.

I read this years ago, when I doubt I even knew what incest was, and actually it was only a couple of years ago that I even realised that they were related. Totally missed it the first time round.

By: AztecLady

AztecLady — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:23:34 +0000

I’m with Dee on this one.

Yes, it may be romance in the “pure” sense of the word (what DS was saying, I think) but it’s not romantic to me at all. It’s like Casablanca–I like the movie, and it’s poignant and beautiful and whatnot.

But every time I want to bash someone on the head when Boggie gets Ingrid Bergman to get on the effin’ plane.

By: Dee Tenorio

Dee Tenorio — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:04:50 +0000

I tend to file The Blue Lagoon with anything by Nicholas Sparks, something I call “ManMance”. The “Loved and lost, than never to have loved at all” crap that pisses me off to no end, lol. I have absolute fits when people call it “romance”.

I didn’t realize they died. I’d have thought this one would fall under your “incest” purview, Karen, since they’re cousins. That part bugged me even when I was little but hubbie tells me that no one cared because Brooke Shields was damn near nekkid. I mean, I understood how it happened, but the story was a long series of bummers that I never got. I just liked the ocean.

Dee
The Bummer Police

By: DS

DS — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:16:47 +0000

There’s genre romance and then there is romance. Genre romance is a creation of the last few decades and the guarantee of the happy ending is even more recent than the books that started the genre. It is restricted to a happy ending.

In the larger sense Blue Lagoon is a romance, it is not a genre romance.

By: JulieLeto

JulieLeto — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:57:51 +0000

I don’t think Romeo & Juliet was a romance, either. It was a tragedy–because they died at the end.

If they would have lived, it would have been a comedy, which is as close to a romance as they had in those days. (The play was hilariously funny, if not for all the dying.)

I did not know Blue Lagoon was a book. Learned something new!

And I didn’t think they died, either.

By: Shiloh Walker

Shiloh Walker — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 15:51:44 +0000

Never read the book, barely remember the movie. Didn’t know they died in the end, though.

Regardless, I wouldn’t call it a romance, I don’t think.