See how I'm not punching him? I think I've grown.

Mal ,'Shindig'


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."


Dana - May 04, 2005 5:14:15 am PDT #7585 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Anyone feel like making fun of LKH?

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Choice excerpts:

Is this what some of you want, my pain? Not happy that I don't share my innermost torment? Books not enough? Blog not enough? 99 percent of my fans are some of the nicest, niftiest people on the face of the planet, but to that other 1 percent I say this. No I won't say it.

***

One, you wanted less sex in the books. Two, you wanted Richard to win. You differed on other stuff, but that was your main desires.

Cerulean Sins was the next book, then Incubus Dreams. Did you, of the vocal minority, notice a trend in these books? Richard was almost non-existent in CS, and I had to fight with my subconscious to get him into ID. And the sexual content? Is it going up or down? I think up, definitely up.

I did not do it on purpose, it wasn't in the front of my head, but my subconscious has always been contrary.

***

You tell me that there's too much sex, and part of me thinks, you ain't seen nothing yet. You advocate Richard, and it makes it hard to write him as a character, because every time I deal with him, I hear the ugly echoes in my head of you.

***

The arduer is a major metaphysical ability, and curse/blessing. It cannot be brought into the series and then fixed just like that. Anything this powerful should have consequences, and a learning curve. I've always planned on Anita getting to the point where she can control the arduer and not have to have sex every few hours.

***

But a few of you, a small, but vocal minority, have forgotten that the guest book was a privaledge not a right. So, like any privaledge that gets abused, it goes away.


Connie Neil - May 04, 2005 5:17:01 am PDT #7586 of 10002
brillig

Oh, poor pooky, she's opens the doors to all comers and discovers she's not universally regarded as a goddess and muse incarnate. "I put that guest book out so my sycophantic fans could worship at my feet! How dare you tell me my writing is going in silly directions!"


erikaj - May 04, 2005 5:19:08 am PDT #7587 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

Get over yourself, bitch. Not Dana, obviously. I keep thinking I want to read the early parts of this series but if they are any good, it's just gonna piss me off. Not only is that rude, it's bad marketing for Christ's sake!


Dana - May 04, 2005 5:19:19 am PDT #7588 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Also, no one out there suggested it might be a good idea for her to run her posts through a spell check? No one?


brenda m - May 04, 2005 5:20:32 am PDT #7589 of 10002
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Nooo! Don't take away my privaledges!


Deena - May 04, 2005 5:22:06 am PDT #7590 of 10002
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

Oh dear lord. That's just sad.


erikaj - May 04, 2005 5:29:24 am PDT #7591 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!

Makes me want to turn Ophelia,but I doubt her mind was ever noble to start with. Of course maybe I say that as rookie author with my nose pressed to the glass, but right now I think I would love to have a. a sex life for my fans to speculate about and 2. Fans to speculate.


Calli - May 04, 2005 5:34:29 am PDT #7592 of 10002
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Huh. I'm partway through Incubus Dreams, and liking it better than the last couple of books, but still. There's probably 1% that'll say the best author in the world is a hack and LHK is not the best author in the world. If she's gonna open her door to all comers, she's gonna have to expect that not all of them will be worshipful devotees.


Betsy HP - May 04, 2005 5:37:47 am PDT #7593 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Did you, of the vocal minority, notice a trend in these books? Richard was almost non-existent in CS, and I had to fight with my subconscious to get him into ID. And the sexual content? Is it going up or down? I think up, definitely up.

So it is MY FAULT that she's writing worse and worse and worse. (It isn't the sex, Laurell, it's the boring sex.)


Betsy HP - May 04, 2005 5:38:45 am PDT #7594 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

As Dana noted, she can't spell her own stupid metaphysical concept, the arduer .