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'Page-turner' A cliche?
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Peaceblinkfriend  #543995  Sun, 20 Jul 08 12:54 PM
Would you say the phrase 'page-turner' is a cliché?


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Marius Hancu  #544019  Sun, 20 Jul 08 02:01 PM
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Peaceblinkfriend  #544029  Sun, 20 Jul 08 02:38 PM
It didn't return any hits. I think the jury is till out though. I mean I have always thought 'page turner' had been used so often that it must have lost its original meaning.



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Delmobile  #544048  Sun, 20 Jul 08 03:18 PM
 I don't think of this as a cliche in a negative way - more like a useful shorthand term, like cliff hanger or bodice ripper. 
  
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Philip  #544060  Sun, 20 Jul 08 03:55 PM
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 I don't think of this as a cliche in a negative way - more like a useful shorthand term, like cliff hanger or bodice ripper. 
Bodice ripper?  You southerners really get into your reading, don't you!  (:P) Stick out tongue
  
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Grammar Geek  #544062  Sun, 20 Jul 08 03:58 PM

Philip, you need to replace "you southerners" with "you gals."

A bodice-ripper is a romantic novel usually involving some combination of heaving bosoms, castles, swords, and rogues with hearts of gold. The covers have absurdly muscled men with their shirts in tatters, with one arm wrapped around the damsel in a pose of intense passion.

Frankly, it's a mainstay of my summer reading.

 
  
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Philip  #544140  Sun, 20 Jul 08 09:53 PM
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Philip, you need to replace "you southerners" with "you gals."

A bodice-ripper is a romantic novel usually involving some combination of heaving bosoms, castles, swords, and rogues with hearts of gold. The covers have absurdly muscled men with their shirts in tatters, with one arm wrapped around the damsel in a pose of intense passion.

Frankly, it's a mainstay of my summer reading.


Actually, within an hour after posting that joke to the "southerners", I learned from a friend exactly what a "bodice ripper" is.  I should have known, since until recently I often posed for artists making covers for those books.  (bow) Bow
  
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Delmobile  #544158  Sun, 20 Jul 08 11:16 PM
 Philip, didn't I meet you at the photo shoot for "Unreconstructed Vixen"? Smile

 

Years ago, when I was in college, an acquaintance started a career of writing what were billed as "historical novels," full up with well-researched local history, but having somewhat lurid covers. In our small town, she was of course quite celebrated; the English faculty at my school seethed with a combination of envy and scorn, but they had to line up with a smile to buy signed copies. My Shakespeare professor's wife described her husband bursting out of his study waving his copy and yelling, "Look! Page thirteen - he's actually ripped her bodice!!" 

 

 

 

 
  
Peaceblinkfriend  #544392  Mon, 21 Jul 08 11:18 AM
Historical novels? (:D) Big Smile  I wonder if it's a euphemism for bodice-ripper in those days.


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