Oh dear. Boring pornography is worse than fade-to-black. At least with the latter you can let your own imagination go places.
On the warning-to-others hand, that's one less book for me to pay late fees to the library on.
Never goes smooth. How come it never goes smooth?
Mal ,'Safe'
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."
Calli - Apr 20, 2005 9:15:02 am PDT #7424 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
erikaj - Apr 20, 2005 9:28:26 am PDT #7425 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Boring sex? That's sad, Betsy. And I would have said impossible except that you are very believable. Why am I broke and this woman has bank, again? because I've gotten praise for being erotic even without boots actively being knocked.
Atropa - Apr 20, 2005 9:33:12 am PDT #7426 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I thought you learned this lesson like...three books ago?
I know. This is why I am making the pledge in public. Next September I shall call on you to make me be strong. The demon Hamilton shall be far from my lips.
Don't worry, I'll remind you. I'm supposed to do the same thing for another friend who bought the latest Merry book and now regrets it.
No more Hamilton for you. If you want to be *really* virtuous, promise you'll only buy her work from second-hand stores.
Betsy HP - Apr 20, 2005 9:35:30 am PDT #7427 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
There is so much to regret in the latest Merry book.
Because you know what her Magical Goddess-Given Power is?
She empowers other Sidhe by sexing them up. Seriously. Sleep with Merrie, get your mystical powers back. Except that no sleeping is possible. The Goddess asks her to kill a Sidhe so he can be resurrected, and she says, no, I want to sex him up instead. And does.
She talks a lot about having the Hand Of Flesh And Blood, but it's more like the Yoni of Taser.
Connie Neil - Apr 20, 2005 9:37:10 am PDT #7428 of 10002
brillig
Heck, I not only don't buy her at all, I've stopped reading her. Unless something interesting happens to--crap, what's his name, the young werewolf who will occasionally call Anita an idiot to her face.
Betsy HP - Apr 20, 2005 9:37:40 am PDT #7429 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Oh, I'm sure Anita sleeps with him, but that's not what I call interesting.
Connie Neil - Apr 20, 2005 9:38:10 am PDT #7430 of 10002
brillig
I'm beginning to wonder if Obsidian Butterfly was ghost-written or just an old manuscript left over from the early days, when she remembered plot is good.
that's not what I call interesting
Agreed.
Steph L. - Apr 20, 2005 9:38:46 am PDT #7431 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
If she writes another book like Obsidian Butterfly, with Anita and Edward and no sex and no damned werewolves and weremonkeys and weresquirrels -- then I'll read it. But otherwise -- ugh.
t edit Heh. Obsidian Butterfly x-post.
Calli - Apr 20, 2005 9:59:26 am PDT #7432 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
the young werewolf who will occasionally call Anita an idiot to her face.
Jason? I liked him.
Lyra Jane - Apr 20, 2005 12:05:42 pm PDT #7433 of 10002
Up with the sun
Is the latest Merry book the third, or has she turned out a fourth one? I flipped through the third one in a bookstore and noticed that it was 90 percent boring sex, so i didn't buy it.