bing bing bing
really boring porn
What is your childhood trauma?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
beth b - Jun 04, 2004 10:57:31 am PDT #3088 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
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.
Tam - Jun 04, 2004 12:13:57 pm PDT #3096 of 10002
"...Singing their heads off, protected by the holy ghosts, flying in from the ocean, driving with their eyes closed." - Patty Griffin "Florida"
There's a new Anita book (number 12) coming out in October, Incubus Dreams. I'll read it. I want to know what happens next, but yeah, the series has really gone down hill. The last was really just annoyed me. Too political I think and just too much of the same old crap. I really don't like that Anita seems to be alienating herself from all her human friends/co-workers. It's uncool.
Amy - Jun 04, 2004 12:17:49 pm PDT #3097 of 10002
Because books.
I bought the first Anita Blake book to see what all the fuss was about, and didn't get through it. I liked her, but I got bored. And then the thing with the rats really squicked me.
The only Anne Rice I enjoyed was The Witching Hour, and even that could have used some trimming. The family history was interesting, the New Orleans descriptions were great, and I got invested in Rowan and Michael getting together. But that series went downhill right away, too, with Lasher and Taltos, the third one (I think?), which I never finished.