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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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Atropa - Oct 28, 2014 10:00:59 pm PDT #22801 of 28343
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I'm about halfway through Prince Lestat and am enthralled. It's lurid and overblown, but it's also got a thread of self-aware gentle mockery, and it seems to be a return to the sort of epic potboiler supernatural plots and schemes plots. If it doesn't go spectacularly off the rails in the last half, it'll be a worthy successor to the first three.

Oh, and it's not set right after QotD, but there's been NO mention of the misguided Mayfair Witches cross-over nonsense from Blackwood Farm or Blood Canticle.

Rayne - Oct 28, 2014 11:23:33 pm PDT #22802 of 28343
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire

The last Anne Rice book I read was Queen of the Damned. Would I be totally lost if I skipped to Prince Lestat?

Steph L. - Oct 29, 2014 3:24:02 am PDT #22803 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine

I'm about halfway through Prince Lestat and am enthralled. It's lurid and overblown, but it's also got a thread of self-aware gentle mockery, and it seems to be a return to the sort of epic potboiler supernatural plots and schemes plots. If it doesn't go spectacularly off the rails in the last half, it'll be a worthy successor to the first three.

YES. Woo! Come on, holds list!

Jessica - Oct 29, 2014 3:52:26 am PDT #22804 of 28343
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

If it doesn't go spectacularly off the rails in the last half, it'll be a worthy successor to the first three.

And if it does it will be a worthy successor to the rest of the series! Either way I think we win.

sumi - Oct 29, 2014 5:06:00 am PDT #22805 of 28343
Art Crawl!!!

Damnit Jilli, your tumblr post and read has me wanting to read it too!

Atropa - Oct 29, 2014 9:04:05 am PDT #22806 of 28343
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

I am HOPING I can "sneak out" of work early (I work from home) so I can finish the book.

Rayne, you might get a little lost with massive cast of characters, but when there's references to events in the other books, there's some context given. Without falling into the "As you know, Marius" trap, too. Because let's face it, even the die-hard Vampire Chronicles fans (cough cough) can't keep track of everything.

hippocampus - Oct 29, 2014 9:21:34 am PDT #22807 of 28343
not your mom's socks.

This short story by Max Gladstone may be of interest to some in the room: "A Kiss With Teeth"

EpicTangent - Oct 29, 2014 11:02:45 am PDT #22808 of 28343
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty

Excellent story!

Great line from early in made me laugh:

in the sixties he met a traveling volcano god in Fiji, who’d given up sacrifices when he found virgins could be had more easily by learning to play guitar

Connie Neil - Oct 29, 2014 12:52:08 pm PDT #22809 of 28343
brillig

My latest freebie ebook, The Housewife Assassin's Handbook, by Josie Brown. She works for a CIA subcontractor and is trying to avenge the murder of her husband, while taking care of her kids and suburban home. So far so good.

erikaj - Oct 29, 2014 1:38:28 pm PDT #22810 of 28343
Always Anti-fascist!

That sounds super-cute--kind of like Susan Isaacs.

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