'War Stories'
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."
Because if there's something in there that keeps you buying her books? There's a reason for her to keep writing them, and she's filling a need.
No, it's more what you said in your second posting: I keep thinking "Surely they can't be THAT bad." And then I get to page 20 or so and think "Yes, yes they can."
Has anyone bothered to read Hamilton's latest Anita, (I think it's Cerulean Sins)? I'm assuming it's more of the same porn BS, but I'm willing to give it a shot (in paperback) if someone can give me the tiniest hope of at least a hint of a plot.
I think CS had no plot at all. It had a tiny hint of a plot around Chapter 1, and then nothing happened until the last chapter, when the client basically gave up because clearly Anita was too busy with the ardeur and the fashion and the ardeur to do any actual, you know, work.
I have read Byatt's Possession. Brain broke. No workee.
Damn it, why don't more people write real letters?!?
Edited because apparently brain is more broke than I thought.
Many, many years ago, I was involved with a guy stationed in Turkey. We wrote many longs letters to each other. It's hard work! And we certainly weren't trying to be literary or deep or profound.
No, it's more what you said in your second posting: I keep thinking "Surely they can't be THAT bad." And then I get to page 20 or so and think "Yes, yes they can."
Oh, dear. Well, then - bad enabler of terrible fiction! No cookie!
CS made the Buffista rounds and is the only LKH I have read. I might read more, I might not. And I can be a really easy audience...I love Kinsey Millhone and thought "O is For Outlaw" was the shit. As a novel, not "just" as a mystery although that is totally not a just. But, it seems like Grafton pulled back from the emotionality in that one, and I wish she hadn't. P and Q were not as good.
when the client basically gave up because clearly Anita was too busy with the ardeur and the fashion and the ardeur to do any actual, you know, work.
Damn it, why don't more people write real letters?!?
They're all on the internet! Much more fun.
eta: no, I hadnt heard of her, msbelle, I'll check them out. Thanks.
amyparker, do you mean Possession? Such a good book, and I even read all the poetry (though I might not on a reread).
My friend just sent me Ayun Halliday's No Touch Monkey! And Other Travel Lessons Learned Too Late for Christmas, and I am all excited to read it.