I didn't say I'd stopped reading, although it may get to the point that I start feeling like poking my eyes out while reading. My library has gotten all the recent ones, so at least I can punish myself for free. I generally dislike anything like censorship, but I keep thinking the Gentry books in the library need a bright red "Weird Sex on Every Page" sticker.
What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M.C. Escher perspective, but I did get time to think.
Angel ,'Conviction (1)'
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."
Ginger - Jan 14, 2004 12:46:59 pm PST #530 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Susan W. - Jan 14, 2004 12:55:07 pm PST #531 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
So, should I read the things, or what? The Hamilton books, that is?
Ehh. I don't think they're worth it. I enjoyed the first few, but gave up when the porniness started getting icky and the repetitiveness bored me rather than giving me the literary comfort food effect.
Atropa - Jan 14, 2004 1:07:57 pm PST #532 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I keep thinking the Gentry books in the library need a bright red "Weird Sex on Every Page" sticker.
Boring wierd sex, no less.
Vortex - Jan 14, 2004 1:11:59 pm PST #533 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
So, should I read the things, or what? The Hamilton books, that is?
I am ambivalent. On the one hand, there is good story stuff going on there. On the other hand, they've gone downhill. It's like she has a good idea, and either gets writer's block or bored, so starts using sex scenes as filler. I don't have a good sense of what happened in the last book because I did so much skimming over the sex scenes that occasionnally, I'd miss a plot point.
Betsy HP - Jan 14, 2004 1:14:12 pm PST #534 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Deb, read the first. If it's a good bathtub book, read the others until you get bored.
Betsy HP - Jan 14, 2004 1:14:31 pm PST #535 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I did so much skimming over the sex scenes that occasionnally, I'd miss a plot point
Ditto. How sad is that?
Astarte - Jan 14, 2004 1:18:44 pm PST #536 of 10002
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.
Boring bondage porn.
Yes, heaven save us from pretentious fic!dommes. Some people really wear those garter belts a bit too tight.
Atropa - Jan 14, 2004 1:20:25 pm PST #537 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Now, for entertaining weird sex & horror, I would suggest Control Freak by Christa Faust.
Katerina Bee - Jan 14, 2004 2:03:49 pm PST #538 of 10002
Herding cats for fun
I did so much skimming over the sex scenes that occasionnally, I'd miss a plot point
Ditto. How sad is that?
It's awfully sad that I didn't spend that precious time on a better book. I dumped my hardcover copy of whatever the last LKH was called (Narcissus in Chains??) because I couldn't remember anything that had happened. Hey, I needed shelf space.
erikaj - Jan 14, 2004 2:15:01 pm PST #539 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I would never call my book that because I think it would sound like "Narcissist in Chains" but maybe that's just me.And I liked The Sex, but that was my first one ever, that came from Casa de Tep. I don't know that I would like books and books of it. I did wonder if every other woman in town dropped dead, though. Where were they?