Large print editions
You know what I’m talking about, right? Books published with slighter-larger-than-normal text, to benefit the aged or otherwise sight-impaired members of the populace?
This I am cool with. It troubles me in no significant way.
But -- I have a little bit of trouble when one publishes romance novels in large print editions. Think about it -- do we really need the septuagenarians of the world reading -- and actually getting sexually aroused by -- romance novels? The thought is, quite frankly, sickening. Imagine all of the attendant squelching sounds, and then wonder in horror which particular body part is producing the fluids necessary for the squelching.
There are just some things that shouldn’t be done. This is one of them. I suppose another would be publishing a book called "How to take over the world" in German.
Zing! Ethnic humour!
This I am cool with. It troubles me in no significant way.
But -- I have a little bit of trouble when one publishes romance novels in large print editions. Think about it -- do we really need the septuagenarians of the world reading -- and actually getting sexually aroused by -- romance novels? The thought is, quite frankly, sickening. Imagine all of the attendant squelching sounds, and then wonder in horror which particular body part is producing the fluids necessary for the squelching.
There are just some things that shouldn’t be done. This is one of them. I suppose another would be publishing a book called "How to take over the world" in German.
Zing! Ethnic humour!
posted by Kieren @ 9:14 pm
2 Comments:
At 10:24 am,
Anonymous said…
In the five years that I worked in that evil evil place where I no longer worked, I never ever once thought of that.
Thank you VERY much for bringing that piece of information to my attention. It is right up there in the list things I never wanted to think about!
Devil spawn.
At 4:21 pm,
Anonymous said…
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