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.
Book: I am a Shepherd. Folks like a man of God. Mal: No, they don't. Men of God make everyone feel guilty and judged.
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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."
Polgara - Jan 15, 2004 10:37:25 am PST #567 of 10002
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Betsy HP - Jan 15, 2004 10:38:38 am PST #568 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
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.
amyparker - Jan 15, 2004 10:40:33 am PST #569 of 10002
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
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.
justkim - Jan 15, 2004 10:46:14 am PST #570 of 10002
Another social casualty...
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.
deborah grabien - Jan 15, 2004 10:57:58 am PST #571 of 10002
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
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!
erikaj - Jan 15, 2004 10:58:16 am PST #572 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
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.
Polgara - Jan 15, 2004 11:00:42 am PST #573 of 10002
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
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.
- snerk* That's it, then, I think I'm officially done with her until I hear that she's reformed. But damn, I miss the fun of the earlier books. I remember when I first discovered her, with book six, and I immediately went out and bought the first five and couldn't read them fast enough.
Java cat - Jan 15, 2004 12:54:27 pm PST #574 of 10002
Not javachik
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.
Kate P. - Jan 15, 2004 1:45:37 pm PST #575 of 10002
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
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.
amyparker - Jan 15, 2004 2:04:45 pm PST #576 of 10002
You've got friends to have good times with. When you need to share the trauma of a badly-written book with someone, that's when you go to family.
What did I write? t going back to look Good grief. I am mixing up Austin and Byatt. Maybe I'm the one with the messed-up brain?