Talk:Airport novel

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[edit] Anecdote

not sure if it is worth mentionning on the main article. What is called an Airport novel in the States is a Railway Station Novel (roman de gare) in France. I personnally find the parallel amusing. Hachette, the French publishing house started its activities selling in railway stations' newly created bookstores.

By all means, it is indeed worth mentioning. Thanks. -- Smerdis of Tlön 02:06, 21 Dec 2004 (UTC)

tom wolfe has his critics. but airport novel? hardly

Tom Wolfe is not an "airport novelist". He has only written three novels, and they aren't that popular. How would one equate the Day of the Jackal with A Man in Full? Mauvila 11:30, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Porn?

This excerpt puzzles me: Whatever the genre, airport novels typically contain pages of explicit description of sexual encounters, often to the point of pornography; unlike pictorial pornography, an elaborate sexual fantasy that appears only in text can be enjoyed by the reader without making it too obvious to the other passengers what is being read. The cover of an airport novel is often a painting that depicts a collage of attractive women and action scenes.

As a freqent traveler and avid reader of this genre I have yet to see anything that describes this. Is this a subgenre of Airport Novels? My personal feeling is that it is another genre altogether and has nothing to do with this one. Erotica, like Horror and Sci Fi do not fall into this category. --Laveaux 19:23, 8 January 2006 (UTC)