Not too mad at all. At least, not when compared to Laurell and Stephenie.
Way to set the bar looooooow.
Don't worry, I'm not gonna start any sword fights. I'm over that phase.
Mal ,'War Stories'
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."
Calli - Jul 31, 2009 8:57:47 am PDT #9726 of 28389
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Polter-Cow - Jul 31, 2009 9:13:20 am PDT #9727 of 28389
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
And Laurell K. Hamilton when asked her thoughts on the Twilight phenomenon: "Stephenie Meyer as come and she's taken the genre that I sort of pioneered."
...Pioneered? Really? I am not familiar enough with genre trends to factually dispute this claim.
erikaj - Jul 31, 2009 9:14:45 am PDT #9728 of 28389
Always Anti-fascist!
"Jeez, Bobby, why not just compare her to the monkeys in the zoo?" (Sorry...that KOTH was just on.) Stephenie Meyer always comes off like she is in 13 Going on Thirty or something. Except I like Jennifer Garner and think Meyer is a moron. But that would explain a. her grasp of teens and 2. Her complete and total inability to get quoted with anything intelligent...every time she opens her mouth, Shauna dies, just a little bit more.(Because I've decided...all publicists are Jersey girls named Shauna now.) And she never gets used to how Meyer flinches when she says "Jesus Christ!"
Barb - Jul 31, 2009 9:15:12 am PDT #9729 of 28389
“Not dead yet!”
...Pioneered? Really? I am not familiar enough with genre trends to factually dispute this claim.
Let's put it this way. Everyone's laughing at her.
erikaj - Jul 31, 2009 9:19:13 am PDT #9730 of 28389
Always Anti-fascist!
Including dead people. Which seems oddly appropriate. I could never pull this off...nobody claims to "pioneer" crime fiction cause the people that write it are so good with guns. IJS.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 31, 2009 9:20:49 am PDT #9731 of 28389
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
OK, the fact that Stephanie Meyers is Mormon explains A LOT.
Calli - Jul 31, 2009 9:21:56 am PDT #9732 of 28389
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
nobody claims to "pioneer" crime fiction cause the people that write it are so good with guns. IJS.
*sporfle*
Barb - Jul 31, 2009 9:22:16 am PDT #9733 of 28389
“Not dead yet!”
Way to set the bar looooooow.
Well, come on-- Anne did have some batshit craxy moments for a while there. These days she's coming off as thoughtful and measured in her responses.
erikaj - Jul 31, 2009 9:23:22 am PDT #9734 of 28389
Always Anti-fascist!
Wrod. I'm so embarrassed that she's from here...thank God she had Forks to dump it on. Thanks, Calli, but there are a lot of ex-police practitioners of procedural fiction...at the very least, I'd have a lifetime of parking tickets or James Ellroy stealing my sports bras or something...would not be worth it to play "I r serius riter." Plus, I have a lot more respect for what came before than that. I admire those people.
Calli - Jul 31, 2009 9:27:23 am PDT #9735 of 28389
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Anne did have some batshit craxy moments for a while there.
True, that. But while I thought she was a narcissistic loonie who undervalued the editorial process like whoa, I never really thought she was outright ignorant. Which separates her from Meyers.