I did so much skimming over the sex scenes that occasionnally, I'd miss a plot point
Ditto. How sad is that?
It's because you didn't have a strong father figure isn't it?
Joyce ,'Chosen'
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Betsy HP - Jan 14, 2004 1:14:31 pm PST #535 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
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?
Polgara - Jan 14, 2004 3:10:14 pm PST #540 of 10002
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
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.
beth b - Jan 14, 2004 3:14:08 pm PST #541 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
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.
deborah grabien - Jan 14, 2004 3:21:50 pm PST #542 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
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.
Steph L. - Jan 14, 2004 3:56:44 pm PST #543 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Narcissus in Chains is where I started really getting irritated with the LKH books.
Also, no chains.
Polgara - Jan 14, 2004 6:56:10 pm PST #544 of 10002
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Hoping my Buffista beta readers will kick my ass hard if/when I show signs of going bad.
Be nice to them! I'm thinking Hamilton must've pissed off her editors pretty bad for them to be allowing such drivel get published. ;-) But really, the first six books were great, the seventh was pretty good, and it just went downhill from there until Narcissus in Chains just made me give up on her hardcovers forevermore.