Oh, I have no interest in actually reading them. I'm sure there are better ways to spend my time.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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.

I'm reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland for the first time. I swear, it's like he just made shit up as he went along. "So she sees a rabbit and goes down a hole and then drinks something and eats something and cries a giant pool and runs in a race and gets trapped in a house and see a big puppy and then meets a caterpillar on a mushroom."

In fact, I'm pretty sure that's exactly how the story came about, with him making up a story off the top of his head to tell Alice Liddell.

And I think it's also classed as literary nonsense, along with Hec's Flann O'Brien.

(Why yes, I am ignoring the Laurell K. Hamilton talk, although I appreciate the existence of silly porn without the boom-chika-wakka soundtrack)

In fact, I'm pretty sure that's exactly how the story came about, with him making up a story off the top of his head to tell Alice Liddell.

Ha! That makes a lot of sense, because that's totally how it reads.

And I think it's also classed as literary nonsense

That's a good class to put it in.

LKH writes boring sex 90% orgies with only one female involved. I find it hugely funny that men can have sex with other men, but women are only having sex with men in ANY of LKH's universe.

After you read Alice - pick up a copy of The looking Glass wars

I'm only part way thru it - but it is an interesting spin on Alice.