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.
Spike? It's you. It's really you! My therapist thought I was holding on to false hope, but…I knew you'd come back. You're like…you're like Gandalf the White, resurrected from the pit of the Balrog, more beautiful than ever. Oh…he's alive Frodo. He's alive.
Andrew ,'Damage'
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."
erikaj - Jun 04, 2004 10:59:24 am PDT #3090 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
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.
Vortex - Jun 04, 2004 12:20:11 pm PDT #3098 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I hated the Witching Hour. It made me swear to never read her again. I hated it so much that halfway through, I got a red pen and started editing it. I was going to go back and dothe first half, and then send it to her, but I couldn't bring myself to go through that again.
Amy - Jun 04, 2004 12:22:21 pm PDT #3099 of 10002
Because books.
Hee! That would have been priceless. Yeah, she's definitely the self-indulgent type. Loves to just go on and on. So I just skimmed the boring/unnecessary parts to track the progress of the family, which I did enjoy.