# "Teen Paranormal Romance" now has its own section at Barnes & Noble **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951 "2012-05-15T02:05:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/1 "2012-05-15T02:05:22Z")
I weep for our culture. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dc4da7/32.png) [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Man_With_The_Golden_Gun)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/2 "2012-05-15T02:33:44Z")
Makes me think of a Facebook status I had a few days ago: > [@](#): > > One of those stories that is so absurd that it has to really be true: > > Elie Wiesel is a well-known author of the book Night, an memoir of his experience surviving the Holocaust. Night is not his only book, though. He also wrote a novel in 1988 about another Holocaust survivor trying to overcome what he went through and become a psychologist in America. Though he had no way of knowing it, his choice for that book’s title left a lot to be desired. > > I have to wonder what he thinks about the idea that the title he hoped would forever be associated with the worst example of man’s inhumanity to man and the hope that such a horror will never be allowed to happen again will instead forever be associated with whiny teenage girls and sparkly vampires. > > If you think I’m making this up, don’t take my word it. Google it and see for yourself. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/3 "2012-05-15T02:52:59Z")
That’s good though, keep them away from the other books. Now if only I could filter them out of the Kindle books top 100 on Amazon, or the ebook collection on my library’s website, I could save thousands of hours of inadvertently reading descriptions of vampire books. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/4 "2012-05-15T02:58:59Z")
> [@The\_Man\_With\_The\_Golden\_Gun](#): > > Makes me think of a Facebook status I had a few days ago: :dubious: I googled “Night book” and got links for Wiesel’s book and an Italian composition called “Nightbook.” ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/5 "2012-05-15T03:02:21Z")
Twilight by Elie Weisel ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/6 "2012-05-15T03:03:35Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > :dubious: I googled “Night book” and got links for Wiesel’s book and an Italian composition called “Nightbook.” [Twilight](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_%28Elie_Wiesel%29) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/7 "2012-05-15T03:08:27Z")
> [@Ferret\_Herder](#): > > :dubious: I googled “Night book” and got links for Wiesel’s book and an Italian composition called “Nightbook.” What comes just **before** night? (Hint: “You are about to enter another dimension . . .” dootdootdootdootdootdootdootdoot . . .) ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/8 "2012-05-15T03:54:52Z")
Anyway, vampires are passe. It’s [minotaurs](http://www.theonion.com/articles/minotaurs-the-new-vampires-says-publishing-executi,17601/) now. ---
**Author:** ![Blackberry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Blackberry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blackberry)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/9 "2012-05-15T04:16:05Z")
Shoot. I was rooting for mummies. They’re so sexy. ---
**Author:** ![Nanoda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/10 "2012-05-15T04:39:15Z")
At my local used bookstore it’s called “Urban Fantasy”, and was taking up a sizeable chunk of real estate. Just showed up this year. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/11 "2012-05-15T05:23:41Z")
As long as they’re reading. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/12 "2012-05-15T07:39:00Z")
> [@Blackberry](#): > > That’s good though, keep them away from the other books. Now if only I could filter them out of the Kindle books top 100 on Amazon, or the ebook collection on my library’s website, I could save thousands of hours of inadvertently reading descriptions of vampire books. Can we get one that filters out shitty cookie-cutter zombie novels? ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/13 "2012-05-15T10:19:04Z")
I think it’s funny. Joanna Russ wrote a story about a woman whose family keeps nagging her to find a man and get married, so she hooks up with a vampire. “Oh, I feel so feminine and helpless when he takes me.” “But he’s a bloodsucking monster from Hell!” “Well, you _said_ I should date more. Picky, picky, picky . . .” Satire can’t keep up with real life. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/14 "2012-05-15T16:35:16Z")
On reflection, this thread would go better in CS. May I trouble the Mods for a move, please? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/15 "2012-05-15T16:40:19Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > On reflection, this thread would go better in CS. May I trouble the Mods for a move, please? Reported request to mods. ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/16 "2012-05-15T16:45:53Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Reported request to mods. Hmm… do we have vampire mods who can move threads without being noticed? 😉 It’s in CS now. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/17 "2012-05-15T16:49:31Z")
Moved to Cafe Society from MPSIMS. And this is more of an MPSIMS observation than a Cafe Society one, but I’d say many of my teen romances could’ve been called paranormal. They were more paranormal than romantic, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/18 "2012-05-15T16:51:19Z")
How long till we have a crappy “parody” film of the Twilight movies? ---
**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/19 "2012-05-15T16:54:40Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#): > > How long till we have a crappy “parody” film of the Twilight movies? [That was nearly 2 years ago.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1666186/)(Spoofs the first 3 twilight movies, though they might have been working more from book #3 and rumors.) ---
**Author:** ![chorpler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chorpler/32/2888_2.png) [@chorpler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chorpler)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951/20 "2012-05-15T17:15:32Z")
And it was actually not too bad. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teen-paranormal-romance-now-has-its-own-section-at-barnes-noble/621951.md?page=2)