Why Do Ladies Like To Read Romance Novels?

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This new world of ours is my twilight zone.  It's a world where everyone lies.  I read a critique of Michelle Moran's romance historical " Cleopatra's daughter" to be released in  September.  This is an author who writes like an eighth grader, a hack writer with juvenile dialogue and absurd plots.  Trust me on this one--she's awful.  And yet, another, more successful writer,  Margaret George says in an Amazon comment:  "If you liked, "I, Claudius", by Robert Graves, you'll love "Cleopatra's Daughter."  To mention these two novels in the same breath is a lot like comparing a Harlequin romance novel to Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina.  I see this sort of thing happening over and over again.  It makes me really ill.  I see it in critiques from Publisher Weekly,Booklist  and countless blogs.  This is not the world I remember. 

Some of us guys used to like Harold Robbins Novels. I enjoyed The Pirate and The Inheritors. I got interested in them when my Aunt was getting tired of them. Then here was this author that wrote novels with simple names like Me; You; and I.