Oh, I get it. You just don't like who did the rescuing, that's all. Wishin' I was your boyfriend what's-his-height. Oh wait, he's run off.

Spike ,'Potential'


Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.

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."


Atropa - Jan 27, 2012 12:52:18 pm PST #17655 of 28261
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

Library books!

smacks forehead

Why do I always forget about that part?

Why mess with a good thing? And by good thing, I clearly mean "don't make me feel alone in rereading ridiculous Anne Rice." Except I think I finished everything I will likely get through.

I am going to finally read Pandora, and then I think I'm calling it quits on the Vampire Chronicles. I had forgotten how tedious Memnoch the Devil gets.


Steph L. - Jan 27, 2012 12:56:04 pm PST #17656 of 28261
I look more rad than Lutheranism

I think I actually liked Pandora, but I can't remember anymore.


Gris - Jan 27, 2012 12:57:04 pm PST #17657 of 28261
Hey. New board.

My wife read A Discovery of Witches twice, and is not normally the type to reread. She loves it much. I didn't make it very far when I tried to read it, but may give it another try, since she loves it so.


Cass - Jan 27, 2012 1:01:03 pm PST #17658 of 28261
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

I seem to recall liking Pandora. I mean, more Marius. That's got to be good. I clearly scampered off into Witches for a while but maybe I'll give some of the later Vamp Chrons a go.

Why do I always forget about that part?

My library only just started offering them. But it's great.


Atropa - Jan 27, 2012 1:22:00 pm PST #17659 of 28261
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I clearly scampered off into Witches for a while but maybe I'll give some of the later Vamp Chrons a go.

The Vampire Armand is fun, because Armand has ALWAYS been a bitchy drama queen, so the book is full of ridiculous bombast. There were parts of Vittorio that were fun (the Mass held by the vampire coven, mostly), but for the most part I skimmed it.

Rereading Memnoch reminded me how annoyed that book originally made me. I do not read Anne Rice for chapters and chapters of philosophic/faux-historical rambling by angels. I read them for blood, bombast, and Lestat being the Brat Prince.


Cass - Jan 27, 2012 1:50:26 pm PST #17660 of 28261
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

because Armand has ALWAYS been a bitchy drama queen

And bless him for it. I like Armand. A lot. That book is totally going to be reread.

I think I skipped Vittorio when it came out. I'm unsure if I read Merrick but I plan to on my reread tour.

Maybe a dally with Ramses too. Who doesn't like a mummy explaining aspirin?

Rereading Memnoch reminded me how annoyed that book originally made me. I do not read Anne Rice for chapters and chapters of philosophic/faux-historical rambling by angels.

It bothered me too. And I'm a prime candidate for throwing some faux historical in with my flouncey vampires. But she's not fun or interesting with the historical stuff. The Jesus was something I abandoned after forcing myself to read the first 100 pages. So many possibilities, tragically none in the actual books.


Amy - Jan 27, 2012 1:59:45 pm PST #17661 of 28261
Because books.

My favorite Anne Rice is still The Witching Hour, oddly.


Atropa - Jan 27, 2012 2:35:44 pm PST #17662 of 28261
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I want specific types of faux-historical. All of the stuff after Lestat is first turned, and the Theatre des Vampires section? LOVE. Angels watching the evolution of humans? Not so much.


Sophia Brooks - Jan 27, 2012 3:07:40 pm PST #17663 of 28261
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Memnoch the Devil nearly killed me, but I have to say that Anne Rice was really brilliant in her use of point of view between Interview with a Vampire and The Vampire Lestat. I really hated Lestat from Interview, and then really grew to love him in Lestat.


Atropa - Jan 27, 2012 3:10:21 pm PST #17664 of 28261
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I have to say that Anne Rice was really brilliant in her use of point of view between Interview with a Vampire and The Vampire Lestat. I really hated Lestat from Interview, and then really grew to love him in Lestat.

Yes. That POV switch worked so well. Pity she let her bombast overwhelm her storytelling in later books. (I'm looking at you, Queen of the Damned.)