Thursday, 26 June 2014

Chick Literature, a Genre in itself



Chick literature, for people who don’t know it is the kind of books which guys avoid and the ones that cater to women regardless of the age. I’m not sure if you have heard of Mills and Boon publications or Nora Roberts or Debbie Macomber, who are quite famous authors of the contemporary Romance novella. (I see you now get the point why they cater to women). It doesn't matter that my favorite authors are Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Bronte Sister. These are the authors who are the reigning queens in the kingdom of romance.

So you wonder what is it about Chick Lit that attracts women, I wondered myself. It is set in the most idealistic situation where the male protagonist in inevitably the handsomest man on town, exuding manliness, with the bad boy reputation. Needless to say more often than not he is stinking rich and falls in love with the most unlikely candidate who is our heroine, the independent and beautiful. In short a beauty with a brain. The man rough around the edges and the fierce lioness, experience this intense physical attraction, of course they are mutual so unlike the real life. One leads to another, fall in love and they end up getting married with or without the quick tumble between sheets. And they love and live happily ever after in the world where the possibility of them breaking is next to Nil. The money is never the problem for it is a given. The guy or the girl is mostly stinking rich come on. The man who is tamed by love of the purest form becomes a dream boy to every woman; to every woman who is reading the book giving enough reason to escape to the unreal.


Well I stopped wondering why quite a while ago!

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