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Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Controversial knowledge
"Find your one true love and live happily ever after." The trials
of love and desire provide perennial story material, from the
Biblical Song of Songs to Disney's princesses, but perhaps most
provocatively in the romance novel, a genre known for tales of
fantasy and desire, sex and pleasure. Hailed on the one hand for
its women-centered stories that can be sexually liberating, and
criticized on the other for its emphasis on male/female coupling
and mythical happy endings, romance fiction is a multi-million
dollar publishing phenomenon, creating national and international
societies of enthusiasts, practitioners, and scholars. Catherine M.
Roach, alongside her romance-writer alter-ego, Catherine LaRoche,
guides the reader deep into Romancelandia where the smart and the
witty combine with the sexy and seductive to explore why this genre
has such a grip on readers and what we can learn from the romance
novel about the nature of happiness, love, sex, and desire in
American popular culture.
SLEAZY MAGAZINES AND BOOK COVERS OF THE PAST. IS EXACTLY THAT. THIS
BOOK WILL TAKE A LOOK AT THE VARIOUS MAGAZINES AND BOOK COVERS OF
THE PAST. THERE HAS BEEN THOUSANDS OF SO CALLED SLEAZE OR SMUT
PUBLICATIONS. THIS COLLECTION WILL HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE WORST OR
BEST. THE CHOICE IS YOURS. I THINK THAT THESE EARLY PERIODICALS OF
THIS NATURE WERE UNIQUE AND SPECIAL. I PERSONALLY LIKE THE ART WORK
AND THE WEIRD PHOTOGRAPHY. NO MATTER WHAT YOU THINK, THIS IS ALSO A
PART OF THE AMERICAN STORY. IF YOU WERE TO COMPARE THESE EARLY MAGS
AND BOOK COVERS. UP AGAINST WHAT IS CURRENTLY AVAILABLE TODAY. THE
OLD MAGS AND BOOK COVERS WOULD LOOK LIKE A JOKE AT LEAST THE OLD
MAGS LEFT YOU SOME ROOM FOR IMAGINATION. TODAY WITH THE INTERNET,
YOU CAN SEE MORE NAKED MEN OR WOMEN ON ONE PAGE. THAN ALL OF THESE
BOOKS COMBINED. TODAY THESE MAGS WOULD CARRY A PG WARNING LABEL.
BACK IN THE DAY. THEY WERE CONSIDERED VULGAR. TODAY THEY ARE FUNNY
AND OUT DATED. SOMETIMES SOME THINGS ARE BETTER LEFT UNCHANGED
ANYWAY YOU BE THE JUDGE, ON WHATS SLEAZE OR NOT. ME, I THINK. IT IS
JUST ANOTHER LOST PART OF OUR INNOCENCE OR OUR IGNORANCE. ENOUGH
TALK GO LOOK AT SOME VINTAGE COVERS. SEE YOU IN THE NEXT EPISODE.
Mechele is young, attractive, and looking to cash in on her
aesthetic assets when she moves from New Orleans to Alaska in 1994
to earn money for college tuition. Her charms ensnare the
affections of three men, and the combined effects of jealously,
lust, and greed take a deadly turn in this true crime story. Before
a murder in the woods shatters her contented life, Mechele works as
an exotic dancer at the Alaska Bush Company, where she spends her
days pleasing a procession of hard-working men. John, Scott, and
Kent are simultaneously smitten with Mechele, and offer affection
in the form of lavish gifts and ultimately engagement rings. While
the three men begin their affairs on the same path, violent murder
blasts apart their parallel lives. One of the trio is shot in the
back; another is accused of the murder. Dead Man's Dancer follows
this murder case from 1996 throughout Mechele's tumultuous trial in
2006 that becomes a nationwide sensation. Shocking in its detailed
portrayal of murder and convoluted love affairs, Dead Man's Dancer
excites horror in readers that lingers far after the last page is
turned.
Paranormal activity has yet to be accepted by modern culture, and
these paranormal hoaxes surely aren't helping its case! Take a
detailed look at some of the most famous, and infamous,
otherworldly hoaxes perpetrated in recent and ancient history with
this in-depth collection.
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