It's funny because the supernatural aspects of the series sound pretty cool.
Jayne is a girl's name.
River ,'Trash'
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."
Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2007 11:56:53 am PST #4410 of 28260
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Connie Neil - Nov 30, 2007 11:59:20 am PST #4411 of 28260
brillig
I may be making the books sound worse than they are.
I'm not sure that's possible.
I haven't read the past couple of books, because the Powers of the Month Club got so lame.
Has she slept with Edward the Hitman yet? Or is theirs still a Our Love of Killing Monsters is So Pure thing?
askye - Nov 30, 2007 12:00:12 pm PST #4412 of 28260
Thrive to spite them
I'd suggest reading the first several books. Those are okay. I wouldn't read any further than 5 or 6.
Although Obsidian Butterfly is interesting because it focuses more on the secondary character Edward.
But I wouldn't suggest reading anything after that. Unless you fortify yourself with Fernet.
Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2007 12:01:30 pm PST #4413 of 28260
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Oh, I have no interest in actually reading them. I'm sure there are better ways to spend my time.
askye - Nov 30, 2007 12:03:48 pm PST #4414 of 28260
Thrive to spite them
One of the things I thought was interesting about the books was the issue of faith.
In the books if you don't have faith in a religious symbol, ritual or prayer it won't help you against a demon or a vampire.
Nutty - Nov 30, 2007 12:06:10 pm PST #4415 of 28260
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
She has to have sex every few hours or sex overwhelms her and she dies.
That's -- that way lies a great deal of soreness, and possibly a nice ice pack and motivation to learn some version of "spiritual" (no-touch) orgasm, you know? God, way to make sex boring.
Polter-Cow - Nov 30, 2007 12:07:52 pm PST #4416 of 28260
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
In the books if you don't have faith in a religious symbol, ritual or prayer it won't help you against a demon or a vampire.
That's cool. I always wondered about the whole cross thing. It seemed meaningless if it didn't mean anything, you know?
Connie Neil - Nov 30, 2007 12:25:07 pm PST #4417 of 28260
brillig
In the books if you don't have faith in a religious symbol, ritual or prayer it won't help you against a demon or a vampire.
There's actually a pretty cool scene in one book of her needing backup from a crowd of people, and all sorts of prayers and chants broke out from several different religions. The Jewish hunters have symbols of Torahs they use to repel vampires.
So many good ideas, so much bad execution.
Steph L. - Nov 30, 2007 4:21:29 pm PST #4418 of 28260
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I just want to point out that connie, of this very thread, wrote the most screamingly funny (and yet dead-on portrayal of the Anita Blake-verse vampires) crossover between Buffy and the Anita Blake-verse.
Do you have a link, connie?
Steph L. - Nov 30, 2007 4:24:59 pm PST #4419 of 28260
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Relatedly (ish), I've read the first 2 Atlantis books, by Alyssa Day, and they're much more like what the Anita Blake books *should* be. They have enough of a plot to make me believe that the plot is the point, but they have big manly men from Atlantis AND werewolves AND vampires AND witches AND sexy sex.
Not great literature, and kind of annoying and heavy-handed with the big manly men from Atlantis acting all testosterone-poisoned whenever the female protagonist is in the room, but whatever. They're fluffy fun.