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Played with Kaylee. Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again. Bits. Fluids. What am I?!

River ,'War Stories'

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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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.

Kate P. - Jan 27, 2012 6:19:46 pm PST #17685 of 28261
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love

I remember LOVING Lasher when I first read it, and Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat too. (All in high school.) Nothing else really sticks out for me, except I know I looked through one of the Sleeping Beauty books in the bookstore and was not terribly impressed. The last Rice I read was probably Memnoch the Devil, and I gave up after that.

Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 27, 2012 7:05:41 pm PST #17686 of 28261
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

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.

It occurs to me that Anne Rice is basically what Laurel K. Hamilton would have been if she kept her vampire/supernatural stories and TMI kinky wish fulfillment in separate books.

Sleeping Beauty didn't scandalize me, but then I was reading Phillip Jose Farmer and Gordon Merrick in high school.

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