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.

Do the men have sex with each other in the Anita books? I don't remember that, I remember it being all about Anita and the hetero sex only.

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

I talked to the author of that at Wondercon!

After I read Alice, I'm actually reading Through the Looking Glass.

Alice and Through the looking glass are one to me. Even though the second was written under heavy influence . ( I thought that as an innocent child)

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.

He totally does. When I was reading the British cult kids book Uncle I noticed the same thing. "He's just making shit up!" Then realized that this is a bit part of the bagginess of Narnia (here's a faun, here's a giant sized swashbuckling rat...), and also a part of the Harry Potter books.

I've concluded that "Just Making Shit Up" is an actual British fantasy tradition.

I wrote a paper in Victorian Lit on "Alice's Search for Identity." The paper was mostly bullshit, but it got an A+ from the prof, so I'm not complaining.