'Shindig'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Are you a bigger fan of the Vampire books or the Mayfairs, Steph?
I'm pretty sure I read all of the Mayfair books except for Blackwood Farm -- I know I read through Taltos, although it's been so long I have no idea what it was about anymore.
Blood Canticle looks intriguing, but I'm afraid I'd be lost.
I read Merrick two or three weeks ago, and liked it. Next for overwrought fluffy reading, I get to decide between Blood And Gold (which is the book about Marius), or re-reading Lasher. (One of the HB 1st editions I found today was Lasher. The other was Queen Of The Damned.)
The Thrifting PTB really need to make 1st editions of Interview and Lestat appear for me. That would be nice.
Amy, Blackwood Farm was ridiculous. Fun, yes, but ridiculous. I would have been much happier if the book had focused more on Lestat (who was apparently back to being entertaining and a snappy dresser) and less on Tarquin, his ghost companion Goblin, and the story of the Blackwood Family.
Oh! Maybe I'm thinking of Blackwood Farm that I disliked!
One minute... t off to Amazon
Okay, no -- I mostly liked Blackwood Farm. It was Blood Canticle that gave me rage blackouts.
Are a bigger fan of the Vampire books or the Mayfairs, Steph?
I'm torn between the two. I utterly adored, violently so, Mona Mayfair in Lasher, and was therefore crushed at how Taltos went so very wrong. And therefore loathe Blood Canticle. I don't think the vampires and the Mayfairs should have ever crossed paths.
I utterly adored, violently so, Mona Mayfair in Lasher, and was therefore crushed at how Taltos went so very wrong.
I'm wondering if I actually read Taltos or just bought it and remember it on the shelves. I do know I read Lasher and also loved Mona, so.
Hmmm. I might see if I can score some paperbacks at the used bookstore on Saturday. I love supernatural reads leading up to Halloween.
I don't think the vampires and the Mayfairs should have ever crossed paths.
ARgh, so true. So, so true.
Man, I can't remember Taltos either. Was that the one where the weird incest stuff became REALLY REALLY FUCKING WEIRD INCEST STUFF?
I got to this part of the description on Amazon:
Other plot elements involve renegade members of the secret order of Talamasca, who want to kidnap and crossbreed two taltoses; a 200-year-old taltos from New York named Ashlar, who is posing as a toy-industry magnate specializing in dolls; and a dwarf called Samuel from the witches' holy glen in Donnelaith, Scotland.
...and decided, yeah, I never actually read that one. No recollection of any of that.
I think Steven Brust's "Taltos" was much more believable.
Have any of the books you've re-read been visited by The Suck Fairy?
The Suck Fairy is an artefact of re-reading. If you read a book for the first time and it sucks, it’s nothing to do with her. It just sucks. Some books do. The Suck Fairy comes in when you come back to a book that you liked when you read it before, and on re-reading—well, it sucks