Anya ,'Empty Places'
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."
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.
But while I thought she was a narcissistic loonie who undervalued the editorial process like whoa, I never really thought she was outright ignorant.
Good point. I'll admit, I'm not overly familiar with the range and depth of vampire literature, but I did like this response that Anne had to the question of what she saw as unique about her vision of vampires:
"Their glamour. What I thought to do with Louis and Lestat was make them very beautiful and very seductive and very appealing. I thought to myself, Why should this supernatural being be repulsive? Why should he be feral like Dracula? What if he was more like a dark angel? It was kind of a radical idea. And now, 30 years later, no one would even question vampires being beautiful and magnetic."
And again, I don't claim to know a lot about the breadth of vampire literature out there, but I do recall when Interview came out and was gaining popularity, that was something that was frequently mentioned as a unique aspect of the book. And she's right-- these days, the idea of the vampire as the beautiful, tortured hero is almost de rigeur to the point where I'm almost grateful to the point of tears when I see a morally ambiguous or downright nasty vampire. It's why I loved Angelus over Angel and why Spike was so refreshing.
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."
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Random person whose book I read and had to go "Is this person a fic writer whose name I would recognize? Hmmmmm???" Jes Battis Good books, if you like magical CSI type things that also have queer people in them, and are set in Canada. Totally hit several of my fave things, there. But it just amused the heck out of me, in several scenes, when the characters are talking, and sounded more like buffistas than characters in a book, if you know what I mean. Like, when they're being all "hey, the scooby gang is here!" and I'm thinking "Ack, this is almost a little too meta for me..."
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."
I ...
But ..
If you'll excuse me, I have to go collapse and try to keep my head from exploding in fury and WTF-ness.
Yeah, I'm not the biggest vampire genre reader out there, but even I know Laurel Hamilton in NO WAY pioneered it.
Carmilla! Dracula! Varny the Vampyre! Gahhhh!
If you'll excuse me, I have to go collapse and try to keep my head from exploding in fury and WTF-ness.
And again, I repeat, Laurell and reality really don't have a good relationship. She lives in her own little bubble of happiness...
Hmm. Evidently Jes Battis wrote a book on chosen families in Buffy and Angel.
Carmilla! Dracula! Varny the Vampyre! Gahhhh!
And that's just the 19th century.
Saberhagen predates Rice, who predates Hamilton.