Mona was awesome -- she's the only thing I really remember from Lasher.
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."
Amy - Jan 27, 2012 5:06:57 pm PST #17680 of 28261
Because books.
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.
Rayne - Jan 27, 2012 11:59:52 pm PST #17687 of 28261
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
Did you know that Gail Carriger is doing a new series set in the same universe? (But young adult and 25 years earlier). Here's the description from Goodreads:
Etiquette & Espionage (The Finishing School #1)
First in a four book YA series. The Finishing School series will be set 25 years before the Parasol Protectorate but in the same universe.
smonster - Jan 28, 2012 3:46:45 am PST #17688 of 28261
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Rayne, I did not. That sounds like fun!!
Never been an Anne Rice fan, really.
sumi - Jan 28, 2012 6:43:36 am PST #17689 of 28261
Art Crawl!!!
I did know that and have been looking forward to it madly.