new vocabulary thanks to SBTB

[tielan]

Cockholm Syndrome: when a heroine's poor opinion of the hero is reversed by his magic sex.

Masobookism: when you have keeping reading an awful book just to find out what happens at the end.

Comments

[skieswideopen]

Ha! Awesome!

Happily I don't encounter the first very often, but I've definitely done the second.

[tielan]

It does tend to happen a bit in some dodgily-written romance novels. It's just good to have a name for it! :D

And, yeah, the second. *shudders* You just need to know what happens, but it's such an effort to plough through to the end!

Popular books that are like that are okay, because someone will tell you the ending (or, if they're really famous, Cleolinda puts together a "in five minutes" for it). But less-popular ones? Much harder to find.

[crossesandguns]

Oh dear. Sometimes I can't take Masobookism anymore and just skip and read the end.