OK, one last bash on the Harlequin Presents pinata, and then we’re done. For this week, anyway.
This contest is really, really simple: Below is a list of Harlequin titles. All of them except one is
fake
real. It is your job to pick the fake title.
Now, we need operate on an honor system here, since lo, the shadow of Google looms over all: you need to promise to NOT perform any kind of Internet search for these titles to see if they’re real or not. If you own a lot of HPs or live near a bookstore with an extensive collection and want to check that way, that’s kosher. Gotta work for that shit, man.
There’s no real way we can verify that you haven’t cheated, of course. Just remind yourself that every time you cheat, a baby panda dies.
The prize is a $10 Amazon.com gift certificate. Contest ends at midnight tomorrow, 11/8/2005. Post your guesses in the comments, and only one guess per person is allowed. If more than one person guesses the correct answer, we’ll use a lottery system to randomly select the winner.
Any questions, just e-mail candy @ smartbitchestrashybooks.com or sarah @ smartbitchestrashybooks.com.
Without further ado: The List of Titles!
Enter My Jungle
Thai Triangle
Dearest Demon
Angry Desire
Boss’ Virgin
Bedding His Virgin Mistress
Blackmailing the Society Bride
The City-Girl Bride
The Sheikh’s Virgin Bride
Silken Savagery
Brittle Bondage
Time of the Temptress
Tender is the Tyrant
The Deserving Mistress
His Virgin Mistress
The Judas Trap
Strange Intimacy
Boardroom to Bedroom
The Sex War
Satan’s Contract
Satan’s Master
Gold Ring of Revenge
Adam’s Rib
You’re fucking kidding me. I was looking down the list, thinking, I can do this. It HAS to be that one. No, that one. No, really, that one. AARGH!!!
Okay, my guess: Time of the Temptress.
Crap! Sarah, I was gonna guess Time of the Temptress, too! In fact, put me down for Time of the Temptress. All the others are just too bad NOT to be real.
Oh. My. Gosh! What a list.
My guess is on Silken Savagery.
Oh dear…
erm…
Okay, due to the fact that I got dizzy half way down the list, my guess is: Adam’s Rib.
Enter My Jungle? No Way!
That gets my vote.
I was kinda shocked at the Satan titles – don’t know why, because there are lots of titles with Devil in them. Maybe because there’s the word, devilish, which implies someone is up to high-jinks. You scamp, you little rascal! You’re so devilish! But there’s no word like Satanish. We don’t have Sataned eggs, or Sataned ham. It’s just got more of an evil sound to it.
Or maybe it’s just me.
Enter My Jungle.
How about no? Is no good for you?
Okay, I’ll Bite
Satans Master
That one sounds more like a Kentucky Derby horse than a novel. The rest all sounded overwrought enough to my ears to be the real McCoy.
God help me if this is a real title, though; I’ll be compelled to go find the damned thing and losing hours doing so tracking it down at some UBS. And I usually hate Presents stories, too.
Angela
I was thinking, surely It’s Satan’s Contract, they wouldn’t use Satan as a book name, they’re Presents! Then I saw there are 2 Satan’s 🙁
Ok, so I’m going with Dearest Demon, using that same false logic.
Drat, foiled again! All of my guesses have been guessed. Anyway, I have to say Enter My Jungle. Because…it just can’t be.
Also, sorry to clutter this thread, but isn’t that the baby panda from the National Zoo? Anyway, he’s so cute that nothing could persuade me to cheat. Protect tha panda.
Bedding His Virgin Mistress
Just a WAG…
Sam
Ummm, my guess is Adam’s Rib…mostly because it just seems too innocent.
BTW who exactly is Satan’s Master. Is he known as SM to his friends? Does SM spank Satan when he’s naughty or make him listen to fluffy harp music? Is this like Satan/God slash?
I’m going with “Boss’ Virgin” just because it’s a dumb title, and not even in a funny way like some of the others.
And the sad part is, I’ve read a good ten of those….oh dear.
I’m going to go with Enter My Jungle as well. Because, I mean, really.
Wasn’t Satan’s Master the answer to last weeks ‘personals’ thing???
That was why I didn’t go that way…
Sam
I’m going with Brittle Bondage, because it makes me think of split ends, and I don’t think that’s what they’re going for. Jungle, yes. Split End Jungle, no.
Vicki
I’m going with Silken Savagery cuz well…it’s so stupid. And more like some Norse historical title.
So hard to pick, not having read them, the titles are so lurid though maybe I’ll check them out!
I’m gonna go with ‘Enter My Jungle’ because damn.
sooo many bad titles to choose from….hmmm, i think i’ll pick: Adam’s Rib.
Brittle Bondage. Because although it’s okay to slap a gal and call her ‘My innocent little fool’, to handcuff her to the bed and have bondage fun is Just Not Romance. At least not for Harlequin…
(ooh! They should SO have a bondage line!)
I’ve had the hardest time deciding between Gold Ring of Revenge & Enter My Jungle. They both strike me as funny.
I think I’ll vote for Gold Ring of Revenge though. Toss of a coin decided.
Oddly enough I have read most of these….
I’m going with Time of the Temptress.
It has to be Bedding His Virgin Mistress because no novel is going to blantantly refer to f*****g the heroine in the title. Nuh-unh, no way! It has got to be subtle, not spelled out. Might as well call it “Banging His Virgin Bride.” And if he’s banging her, she aint no virgin!
I’m going to go with “Adam’s Rib”, only because I loved the movie (Kate Hepburn) and can’t imagine someone would use the same title for some man titty-covered romance novel.
(Then again, I can imagine, sadly…)
Wait a minute…
“Below is a list of Harlequin titles. All of them except one is fake. It is your job to pick the fake title.”
I pick Door Number Five! 😉
Below is a list of Harlequin titles. All of them except one is fake. It is your job to pick the fake title.
Clarification please! Is this Doublespeak or an SAT question? Should this read
“All of them except one is fake. It is your job to pick the real title.”
or
“All of them except one is real. It is your job to pick the fake title.”
or
Have I had too much strawberry La Creme today?
Bastards! I’ve been fooled.
Good eye for trickery, ladies.
Ohmigod.
Um. All except one are REAL, so please pick the one that’s fake. I’ve corrected the contest instructions.
Dayum. I feel like a retard.
*runs off and hides*
I want my gift certificate.
If we never read Harlequin, shouldn’t we be able to Google half the titles, just to even the odds a little? Don’t you think? I’m going to guess Satan’s Contract. Just because I don’t think anyone else did. Although Thai Triangle…did they write menages in Harlequins? Wow. Guess I missed out!
For me it’s between Adam’s Rib (because of the movie) and Boss’ Virgin, because there just seems something squirrely about the apostrophe. Because I could imagine someone ripping off one of my favorite movies (or at least the title), I’m going for Boss’ Virgin, on the weird feeling that apostrophe gives me alone.
I’m guessing “Brittle Bondage”. I almost hope I’m wrong. They all look so fake, but I know I’ve seen some of these.
😛 Adam’s Rib
It’s the only one not as good as “Enter My Jungle” Holy cow! I can’t believe that one is a real book, but I actually own that one. Ugh
I am guessing Boss’ Virgin, because no one would dare have that much correct grammer in a title.
Hmmm… Brittle Bondage? It has to be Brittle Bondage, right?!!!
This is my first WAG ever. I vote for Boss’ Virgin, because I think Boons and Mills would mess up the grammar and make it Boss’s Virgin.
I can’t believe an HP would use the word sex in the title so my WAG is The Sex War
A couple of you had me so stinkin’ paranoid about some of the titles that I double-checked to make sure that yes, I HAD seen them and hadn’t added them to the list because I was high after hitting that crack pipe again, like I clearly was when I wrote the contest instructions.
Anyway, you guys will be shocked—SHOCKED—when you find out what the answer is tomorrow morning. Mwahahaha.
“This is my first WAG ever. I vote for Boss’ Virgin, because I think Boons and Mills would mess up the grammar and make it Boss’s Virgin.”
But here’s the thing: If it’s “The Boss’ Virgin,” then it’s correct. But if it’s “Boss’ Virgin,” and “Boss” is a name, then it should be “Boss’s Virgin.” That’s why it stuck out and why I’m stuck on it.
The City-Girl Bride
It’s the most boring of them all
:bug:
Oh. Wow. I’m blinded by PURPLE!
And I spent a year reading those serials as a Used Bookstore clerk.
My guess is: Enter My Jungle. (Which still has nothing on the Song of Solomon and all those garden and thicket references.)