you know, connie you have a point. or she has some weird issue with sex. -- As long as she can't write about it , she does a decent story. As soon as she adds the sex- goodbye story.
You know me! I'm like, "Go school! It's your birthday!" Or something to that effect.
Willow ,'Empty Places'
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."
beth b - Mar 18, 2006 7:46:55 pm PST #184 of 28061
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Connie Neil - Mar 18, 2006 8:08:31 pm PST #185 of 28061
brillig
she has some weird issue with sex
Well, I think we all know that's true.
erikaj - Mar 19, 2006 10:23:19 am PST #186 of 28061
I'm a fucking amazing catch!--Fiona Gallagher, Shameless(US)
The comparison to an overwrought ficcer is ever more appropriate.
Katerina Bee - Mar 20, 2006 9:35:03 am PST #187 of 28061
Herding cats for fun
Customer reviews for poor old LKH's latest effort are pretty damn amusing. "It's all Mary Sue and porn, and the story languishes."
That blog clip is just so pitifully self-indulgent. I think she and Anne Rice need to have tea and whinge about how the readers just don't understand their suffering and the Greatness of their Art.
Betsy HP - Mar 20, 2006 9:37:39 am PST #188 of 28061
If I only had a brain...
Oh, dear, oh, dear... From the Amazon reviews: Admittedly, Hamilton DOES try to give Micah new dimensions as a character, by giving him a traumatic background. Unfortunately, this trauma is that his girlfriend dumped him because Micah's Magnificent Member was, uh, too big for her to handle. It will move readers to tears... of laughter. And you can only imagine how the Magnificent Member's, uh, size has an impact on the rather icky sex scene that follows. Although since they have been together for a year, it's not clear why the size is suddenly such a problem.
Consuela - Mar 20, 2006 9:49:55 am PST #189 of 28061
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
ohdear.
Atropa - Mar 20, 2006 10:05:44 am PST #190 of 28061
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh, dear, oh, dear... From the Amazon reviews:
And it is precisely the amusing trainwreck you would predict from those reviews. I made an off-hand comment to one of my co-workers about reading vampire novels; the next day she loaned me Micah. I read it on the bus ride home, and couldn't stop rolling my eyes and snickering.
Calli - Mar 20, 2006 10:22:49 am PST #191 of 28061
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I can't quite bring myself to buy it, and I haven't seen it in the library--nor have I really looked all that hard.
But my editor-in-chief's wife travels a lot, and buys LKH novels (among others) for the plane. Every few months the EiC brings a bag of them and leaves them in the lunch room. I'll probably grab it then. From the sounds of things, I'd better get my eye-rolling exercises underway so I don't sprain anything when the time comes.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 20, 2006 12:59:33 pm PST #192 of 28061
"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
I think she and Anne Rice need to have tea and whinge about how the readers just don't understand their suffering and the Greatness of their Art.
Now I find myself dreading the possibility that Anne might form a similar attachment to Jesus and Judas while writing the former's "autobiography", and decide to do away with all that sad-making death in the story to improve it.
DavidS - Mar 20, 2006 2:40:52 pm PST #193 of 28061
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Now I find myself dreading the possibility that Anne might form a similar attachment to Jesus and Judas while writing the former's "autobiography", and decide to do away with all that sad-making death in the story to improve it.
Dreading? Personally, I look forward to the trainwreck of her new musical, Jesus Christ Mary Sue.