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.
Right. Sir. Honey.
Zoe ,'The Train Job'
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."
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
§ 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.
Strix - Jan 28, 2012 7:14:00 am PST #17690 of 28261
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I knew that, and am pretty psyched about it.
I read tons of Anne Rice, starting in high school. I adored them, of course. I read some of Belinda; was bored. Read all of the Sleeping Beauty books, was bored by the middle of the 2nd (my first intro to BDSM, really) and was all "BLAHBLAH ass-sex flogging ball-gag ponyboys, BLAH BLAH, whatever, ok."
I liked Merrick. And I liked the Mayfair books until the 3rd or 4th one, but by that time, I was all cynical and "Let your editor do her job, bitch!! Don't believe your own hype!"
I have tons of books on the TBR pile, and several I want to review that I've liked, but I've been swamped with paying jobs.
Most of them are resumes, which pay the grocery bill, but I'm really trying to get more booky/geeky jobs. I've gotten some interviews, but I don't have anyone who wants to give me money for them -- YET. Man, I REALLY love interviewing authors. Amy got me hooked. I've got an interview with Laura Anne Gilman scheduled, as soon as Dragon Virus gets here (small press, print-only), and I can blaze through it. I'm a thorough researcher.
Laga - Jan 28, 2012 7:28:48 am PST #17691 of 28261
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I only have heard the audio book of Cry to Heaven but it was read by Tim Curry and just hearing him say "Tonio" turned my bones to butter.
Kat - Jan 28, 2012 11:45:40 am PST #17692 of 28261
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Was there a consensus on A Discovery of Witches? My mom has a copy I can borrow, but I seem to remember some readers here didn't like it.
Amy, I liked it quite a bit. More than I thought I would.