If I read Anne Rice books, I want some sort of paranormal element. So while Cry to Heaven was interesting, there just weren't any vampires or witches in it.

I love QotD precisely *for* its crazy bombast and total OTT-ness. Much like Moulin Rouge, actually. It's a big mess of a book that doesn't know what exactly it wants to be, but it will by god be OTT and gorgeous even as it meanders.

This is very true. And I think QotD is a lot of fun. I just tend to skim a lot of Akasha's philosophical Deep Thoughts. But oh! The story of Daniel and Armand! So much fun angst.

She seems to get really aroused by a lot of weird shit. I don't begrudge her that. I don't begrudge her writing about it. It's just some of her books both bore and annoy me.

And, really, I read Cry to Heaven once whenever I was tearing through her stuff as a 20 y.o. and it is never getting a reread. So I can't even say specifically which parts turned me off as a reader.

At least when I say that her pseudonym'd porn wasn't for me, I know it felt like it lacked plot and the kinks were not kinks I got off reading so it wasn't enjoyable. Cry to Heaven I just am very clear I hated. Don't remember why.

her pseudonym'd porn wasn't for me, I know it felt like it lacked plot and the kinks were not kinks I got off reading so it wasn't enjoyable

God, yes. I read the first one, Sleeping Beauty, I guess, and I was bored and fairly squicked by how clear it seemed that her sexual fantasies/needs were right there on the page.

mostly Lasher

I love that book beyond reason because Mona rocks my socks. I pretty much skip all the Rowan/Lasher parts because they squick the hell out of me, and Lasher's history because it bores the crap out of me, and just read about Mona and Michael (even though, yes, it's SO WRONG). Oh, and I dig the Oncle Julien parts.

God, yes. I read the first one, Sleeping Beauty, I guess, and I was bored and fairly squicked by how clear it seemed that her sexual fantasies/needs were right there on the page.

Dude, I'm allegedly in that demographic and I didn't get more than 30 pages into the first one before I tossed it aside in utter, utter boredom. Is there a word for something that wants to be pron but fails? Maybe a word in German? There should be.

Belinda is the one I am never going to re-read. I just remember going "Really? REALLY?" at the whole thing.

her pseudonym'd porn wasn't for me, I know it felt like it lacked plot and the kinks were not kinks I got off reading so it wasn't enjoyable

Oh lord, the Sleeping Beauty trilogy. Ugh. Boring kink porn, and SO many people thought they were so racy and daring for reading them.

I love Mona, too. Bt after she has the Taltos baby (IIRC) all i can think off is the illustration of Alice in Wonderland with the really elongated neck

Mona was awesome -- she's the only thing I really remember from Lasher.

Bt after she has the Taltos baby (IIRC) all i can think off is the illustration of Alice in Wonderland with the really elongated neck

Ugh, that went SO off the rails. Taltos kind of ruined Mona for me. I pretend it didn't happen.

Boring kink porn, and SO many people thought they were so racy and daring for reading them.

I'll admit that I thought I was daring to read them at 20. Well, I thought that I was daring to buy them. They were outright touted as erotica and there was much in those books that I had not done yet. I was less impressed with myself after I read them. They really were boring kink porn.

I haven't read a Sleeping Beauty book since I was a freshman in college - I didn't think they were boring then, but granted, I was a teenager. No idea what I'd think now.