Cordelia ,'Storyteller'
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."
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.
Deb, read the first. If it's a good bathtub book, read the others until you get bored.
I did so much skimming over the sex scenes that occasionnally, I'd miss a plot point
Ditto. How sad is that?
Boring bondage porn.
Yes, heaven save us from pretentious fic!dommes. Some people really wear those garter belts a bit too tight.
Now, for entertaining weird sex & horror, I would suggest Control Freak by Christa Faust.
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.
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?
Deb, what Betsy said. At least give the first one a try, because she did (used to) have a snappy fast-paced style of storytelling. I think it started going bad in book seven, but that could just be me.
I will check - I am going tioo get rid of all her books - I don't reread them -- and I'll see if I have the first few... if you want them Deb , they are yours.
And Polgara and Betsy have talked me into it. beth, thankee kindly, ma'am, I would love to check it/them out.
Polgara, there's something about the phrase "they started going bad in book seven" that brings a weird sort of joy to my "just embarked on first series of career" writerly heart. Hoping my Buffista beta readers will kick my ass hard if/when I show signs of going bad.