Zoe ,'Heart Of Gold'
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."
And JILLI: if you have any hankering to read Blackwood Farm, I'll send you my copy. Let me know.
Thank you, but I found a copy for super-cheap at a used book store. I'm about half-way through, and find it entertaining in a junk-food sort of way. Besides, Lestat's line about "Goth? Isn't that what they're calling all of us snappy antique dressers nowadays?" made me smile.
I know I should read the Vorkosigan series, but I'm overwhelmed by the sheer size of it.
Considering I can read one in four hours, don't be. And I'm reasonably sure several of these books are still/back in print; I bought a new copy of Cordelia's Honor not 6 months ago. Although I hardly ever see used copies in the used bookstores I visit.
It does please me, that a character as glib and seemingly Mary Sue-ish as Miles gets caught in his lies and occasionally just flops on his face like a regular mortal. Because, while I very much enjoy fantasizing about being that glib and clever, I am also aware that I would hate Miles with a passion if I ever met him in person. (I do think the books are better when they're at breakneck pace -- i.e. the earlier ones --, and eschew farce. Watching Miles do farce is like making a cat wear a dress. Sort of funny, but in the main just wrong.)
Laurell K was fun at the beginning (if annoying in her bad spelling and she reuses phrases like Homer -- where was her copy editor?) but now, her characters are irritating.
I'll read the books because a) I don't have to pay for them, and b) like Tep, I have to know what happens, but I'm glad I read fast. Otherwise, eh.
I'll read the books because a) I don't have to pay for them, and b) like Tep, I have to know what happens, but I'm glad I read fast. Otherwise, eh.
pretty much. and it's turning into horror porn, which I find annoying.
and it's turning into horror porn, which I find annoying.
Badly-written horror porn. There's some very, very good stuff to be found in that little sub-category, but Laurell K. Hamilton's works aren't it.
Badly-written horror porn.
yes, lawd. If I read that
Lestat
I mean Jean-Claude "brought her" one more time, ugh.
Badly-written horror porn
Well, that was the straw that broke the Anne Rice camelback for me. She wrote boring bondage porn.
I mean, try saying that out loud a few times. Every time you say it, it seems less possible.
Boring bondage porn.
I now I've said it before, but the demo chapter from her next Gentry book is AWFUL.
Awful porn.
AWFUL.
The early Anita Blake books, when they were more about raising the dead and less about raising male genitals, were pretty decent. The recent stuff tends to make me feel like I should wash my hands after reading it.
I now I've said it before, but the demo chapter from her next Gentry book is AWFUL.
oh, dear. I like the storyline. feh. and some of the guards sound pretty hot.
The early Anita Blake books, when they were more about raising the dead and less about raising male genitals, were pretty decent. The recent stuff tends to make me feel like I should wash my hands after reading it.
totally there with you. I just want to know what happens. I'm all about the paperback.