tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post5263785356181008291..comments2024-03-25T09:03:39.020-07:00Comments on The Uncrushable Jersey Dress: The Course of True Love--RepriseBetty Debbiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16446092401692468002noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-78351673503095827522013-05-21T13:10:41.423-07:002013-05-21T13:10:41.423-07:00The Course of True Love, 1988
I was wondering wher...<i>The Course of True Love</i>, <b>1988</b><br />I was wondering where the Great Betty got the idea for a <b>female stalker</b>. Found it. I think.<br />The film <i>Fatal Attraction</i> debuted in the <b>summer of 1987</b>.Betty Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517346001348814015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-17185479117389086482013-05-21T13:09:49.267-07:002013-05-21T13:09:49.267-07:00Aw, now I have to get the book off the shelf and r...Aw, now I have to get the book off the shelf and read it again just to see if you are right, if the book "sounds off key".<i> It hasn't the tru tone, voice, sentence structure . . .</i> I am intrigued...<br />Mind you, I cannot believe the book was written by someone else (or should that be anyone else?). <i>The Course of True Love</i> was published as "early" as <b>1988</b>, after all. In those years, Betty pounded out three or four novels every year. Great stories. But, as I said, I am intrigued.<br />Regarding the "non-behaviour" of the police - this would not be the only traffic accident in the Canon where I raise my eyebrows and wonder what the police are about. Now if the Great Betty had been a policewoman...<br />Betty Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15517346001348814015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-57766478642650577262013-05-20T23:23:17.592-07:002013-05-20T23:23:17.592-07:00I think someone else wrote this. It hasn't th...I think someone else wrote this. It hasn't the tru tone, voice, sentence structure . . . just impossible dialogue, repetitious calling in unannounced by hero and then a couple of dramatic events which DO sound like BN . . . <br /><br />Earlier the non-behaviour of the police following the traffic accident which results in a DEATH is preposterous.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-74937543094592735952011-11-02T20:15:02.414-07:002011-11-02T20:15:02.414-07:00Royalty = direct descendants of a monarch. So, yes...Royalty = direct descendants of a monarch. So, yes, Princesses Eugenie & Beatrice are "royals." (Degree of "minor-ness" left to your imagination.)<br /><br />Aristocracy = people with an inheritable title. Dukes can be both royalty and aristocratic, as the royal dukedoms are inheritable. But the royalty trumps the aristocracy, so it's "Prince William, Duke of Cambridge." Order of importance: dukes, marquises (or marquesses), earls, viscounts, barons, baronets, knights (or they're senior to baronets - I forget). (Betty Ross's aunt married a baronet, but they had three daughters so the title died with him.)<br /><br />Peers = adds life peerages to the inheritable titles, so Margaret, Baroness Thatcher is a peer, but her son won't become a baron when she dies. Most peers are <br /><br />Gentry = usually landowners, therefore important without necessarily being titled. Mr. Darcy would be gentry.Magdalenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11551590278859598110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-90379561057105226822011-11-02T09:05:58.979-07:002011-11-02T09:05:58.979-07:00I think the closest the Great Betty ever gets to E...I think the closest the Great Betty ever gets to English royalty is in the book (can't remember which one...and Betty Marcy has most of my BN books)where the heroine is the granddaughter of an earl - but she doesn't trade on it at all. Other than that we get a smattering of 'sirs'...knighted for some unmentioned deed/service to the crown.Betty Debbiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16446092401692468002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-39515365438444820012011-11-02T07:59:15.259-07:002011-11-02T07:59:15.259-07:00If they’re non-royal, could they count as “minor r...If they’re non-royal, could they count as “minor royalty”? There doesn’t seem to be any technical definition of minor vs. major royalty, so I’ve decided it was Princess Michael of Kent who opened the bazaar. My criterion is that anyone not a parent, sibling, consort or offspring (or offspring’s consort) to the reigning monarch is ‘minor.’ Hence, everyone below The Princess Royal on <a href="http://www.royal.gov.uk/ThecurrentRoyalFamily/Overview.aspx" rel="nofollow">The Official Website of the British Monarchy</a> counts as minor.<br /><br />I do think it’s interesting that the Venerable Betty, while English to the marrow and seemingly enamored of Dutch barons, can be so thoroughly dismissive of British royals.Betty van den Betsynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-61220581688515397902011-11-01T19:07:41.460-07:002011-11-01T19:07:41.460-07:00Great comments, I too think the heroines are rathe...Great comments, I too think the heroines are rather obtuse on the wooing and also regarding their charms/attractiveness to the point where the final happy ending sometimes seems more charitable than ecstatic. <br />Golly, I can't wait to read a book where the RDD has been to a congressional school of Clear Intentions and is also the secret plot laying bomb rescue and construction service. That's NeelsPlus.<br />What I am a but curious about is the young stalker female character. Betty has a very dark view on feminine behavior, I believe these books are fables and can be seen in the context of soap opera and romantic Dickens (please forgive me, English lit professor) but the psychopathic almost teenage other <br />woman does get a bit weird on the scale of things.<br />Minor royalty is great, most German high society pretends they have a connectio just read Bunte mag. In Betty context I imagine it's the spawn or familial/marriage related people of more important royal status. Even as 'low' as hat we would call peerage. <br />Betty AnHKAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-48611432444972462682011-11-01T16:29:27.233-07:002011-11-01T16:29:27.233-07:00Minor Royalty would probably be actually non-royal...Minor Royalty would probably be actually non-royal Dukes or Duchesses... That's my guess anyway...Ilanahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03300942046140361809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-49505754604837308852011-11-01T02:15:21.698-07:002011-11-01T02:15:21.698-07:00I have a real problem with this book, but only bec...I have a real problem with this book, but only because I once (once & only once) found a Betty Neels on tape and it was this one. The voice that the lady reading it put on for Claribel was...well, gushing sweetness seems the best way to describe it! Ugh! Cannot read this without hearing that voice.<br />Which is a pity because prior to that I quite liked it!<br /><br />CarolineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-24944755009528001422011-10-31T21:08:14.382-07:002011-10-31T21:08:14.382-07:00I don't think I've read this one yet, but ...I don't think I've read this one yet, but now I'm imagining a novel where the rich Dutch doctor does, in fact, set a bomb to send the plucky young British nurse into his arms for a rescue scene.<br /><br />I'd still totally going read the book, mind you, and probably enjoy every minute of it, the idea just makes me laugh...Bethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11733936219001321166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-34610540734467032592011-10-31T14:50:34.324-07:002011-10-31T14:50:34.324-07:00Maybe because the guy doing the courting graduated...Maybe because the guy doing the courting graduated from the congressional school of how not to get things across clearly. Instead he plays 'Let's pretend we're engaged and then I'll disappear for a few days until my stalker returns'. Doesn't he fall in love with her at first site or something. Would you treat someone you love like this?<br />He could have sped the whole thing up amazingly by courting her for real and letting Irma figure out that she's got no chance on her own.BettyMaryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12676458096380002508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-931981138747432610.post-15436170735562936312011-10-31T11:33:42.364-07:002011-10-31T11:33:42.364-07:00For women whose primary goal in young adulthood is...For women whose primary goal in young adulthood is to get proposed to and marry, all of La Neels's heroines are <i>amazingly</i> obtuse about when they're being courted.Betty van den Betsynoreply@blogger.com