I actually like The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Dammed better than Interview.
Joyce: And what did you do tonight? Dawn: Irritated Giles. I'm beginning to get why Buffy likes it so much.
'Get It Done'
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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."
Atropa - Jun 04, 2004 10:49:16 am PDT #3086 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
deborah grabien - Jun 04, 2004 10:55:54 am PDT #3087 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
People kept telling me to read Lestat. Problem is, by the time I was halfway through Interview, I so cordially disliked the woman's style and prose that the idea of reading more of her made me want to eat my own head.
A year or so later, succumbing to my normally sane sister's bullying, I read The feast of All Saints. Since the first thing I remember actually happening in the damned thing was a particularly brutal rape along around page three hundred and something? I seriously thought about eating my sister's head.
I have never yet felt moved to try her again. She's like boring molasses. And for heaven's sake, the woman writes boring porn. If that isn't illegal, it ought to be.
beth b - Jun 04, 2004 10:57:31 am PDT #3088 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
bing bing bing
really boring porn
Jessica - Jun 04, 2004 10:58:44 am PDT #3089 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I actually like The Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Dammed better than Interview.
I like the voice in Lestat and the backstory in Queen, but I think Interview is the best overall.
erikaj - Jun 04, 2004 10:59:24 am PDT #3090 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
No surprise...I'm with Deb here. And seeing her interviewed made the hate So. Much. Worse. Cause she's all "I'm a writer...dig me being deep and mysterious." Ugh.
Calli - Jun 04, 2004 11:00:28 am PDT #3091 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I read this! I'm pretty sure I read this...does it have two guys on the front cover? I got so excited when I saw this, I was all "Gay Vampire Snuff Porn in the library!"
And then I read it.
Yes, that's the one! And yes, it's ever so much a Dracula Sue.
I've read huge quantities of Anne Rice and everything Laurel K. Hamilton's published. Not that I'm necessarily proud of this (although both had their entertaining points or I wouldn't have kept on), I'm just saying my willingness to get through a book in search of gay porn shouldn't be underestimated. Bound in Blood? I think I made it through 20 pages.
Connie Neil - Jun 04, 2004 11:06:25 am PDT #3092 of 10002
brillig
Oooo, are we mocking Laurell K. Hamilton? I sent all the ones I have/had to Deena when I realized I could no longer stand to read one through all the way anymore--except "Obsidian Butterfly," and that's more for Edward than anything else.
Strix - Jun 04, 2004 11:45:50 am PDT #3093 of 10002
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I really liked LKH when she started out -- lots of nitpicks, but Anita was lots of fun.
Now I still read her, but mainly so I can come here and snark companionably with y'all about the latest book.
Connie Neil - Jun 04, 2004 11:47:37 am PDT #3094 of 10002
brillig
There hasn't been a new Anita Blake in a bit, has there? She's doing the Mary/Merry something series?
Vortex - Jun 04, 2004 12:09:12 pm PDT #3095 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
merry gentry.