And Now For More Of The Same!

[bloodyrosemccoy]

Following up loosely on my last entry, I finally came up with a perfect way to describe Urban Chick Lit Fantasy: It's not so much Pride and Prejudice and Zombies as it is Sex & the City & Mothman.*

Yeah, it's another subgenre that irritates the hell out of me, but I really can't take the high road on this one because I am a fan of Tamora Pierce's pioneering genre of Law & Order: Special Pigeons Unit myself. I just can't deny my visceral reaction to pretty much any form of Sassy Chick Lit, and when they start snagging stuff I like, such as magic systems, I get territorial.


*Although unlike the other remixes done purely for gags, I feel that the addition of Mothman would be a serious improvement on that Let's Go Shopping And Be Horny bullshit.**

**Unless it's Mothman Prophecies Mothman. "Richard Gere, is your refrigerator running?" should not be a giant urban legend hellmonster's entire repertoire.

Comments

[shadesofmauve]

I recently read a new york times article calling most of chick-lit 'priv-lit', and I think it hit the nail on the head. Finally, words to describe my disgust with the genre.

That being said, I like werewolves, but not all the undead things. I've always been fascinated with the idea of transforming into an animal (and being able to run, and jump huge distances, and and and...) but the rest of it doesn't do much for me.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

That is my new favorite literary term. It is painfully accurate.

I never quite grasped how werewolves got lumped in with the undead in the first place--vampires, okay, zombies, definitely, but werewolves? They always seemed pretty alive to me.