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

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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."

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Cass - Jan 27, 2012 4:52:11 pm PST #17675 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.

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.

Amy - Jan 27, 2012 4:54:24 pm PST #17676 of 28261

Because books.

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.

Steph L. - Jan 27, 2012 4:59:48 pm PST #17677 of 28261

I look more rad than Lutheranism

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.

Atropa - Jan 27, 2012 5:00:16 pm PST #17678 of 28261

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

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.

Sophia Brooks - Jan 27, 2012 5:05:32 pm PST #17679 of 28261

Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

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

Amy - Jan 27, 2012 5:06:57 pm PST #17680 of 28261

Because books.

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

Steph L. - Jan 27, 2012 5:08:23 pm PST #17681 of 28261

I look more rad than Lutheranism

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.

Cass - Jan 27, 2012 5:28:49 pm PST #17682 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.

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.

Jessica - Jan 27, 2012 5:35:02 pm PST #17683 of 28261

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

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.

§ ita § - Jan 27, 2012 5:43:12 pm PST #17684 of 28261

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think the "ooh, aren't we scandalous!" books at university were the Storm Constantine and the Jaqueline Carey ones. I tried reading the Kushiel books again, I just can't. Way too rhapsodic about their content matter for me. I prefer something more cynical.

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