So it is MY FAULT that she's writing worse and worse and worse.
Obviously. There was also a "lurkers support me in e-mail!" moment when she said that the vast majority of her fans liked the increased amounts of sex.
It's good to have cargo. Makes us a target for every other scavenger out there, though, but sometimes that's fun too.
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 5:42:28 am PDT #7596 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Ginger - May 04, 2005 5:46:37 am PDT #7597 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Good lord. That's just sad.
The early Anita Blake books, back when they included the four-letter word "plot," were quite decent.
erikaj - May 04, 2005 5:48:27 am PDT #7598 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Really? Cause if you took the sex out of CD, you take the story too. It was fairly interesting to me as a tourist to the verse but I was glad to have borrowed it, you feel me? And I would never buy a book knowing it was gonna be, just that. Even bad ficcers have fans.
Connie Neil - May 04, 2005 5:52:56 am PDT #7599 of 10002
brillig
"Obsidian Butterfly" becomes more and more of an anomaly.
erikaj - May 04, 2005 5:55:06 am PDT #7600 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Maybe she had one idea, Connie, and tried to make it twelve. Note to self: Never do that.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 04, 2005 6:07:33 am PDT #7601 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Anyone feel like making fun of LKH?
Oh, what's Anita Blake done now? And I mean that in more than one way.
Snacky - May 04, 2005 6:10:55 am PDT #7602 of 10002
Like I need a hole in my head
...And LKH takes her seat next Anne Rice, and the two of them console each other with "OMG THOSE BEEYATCH READERS WOULDNT NO GUDE RITING IF THEY HAD INCREDIBBLY BORRING GRAPHIC SEX WITH IT!"
erikaj - May 04, 2005 6:11:19 am PDT #7603 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I'd be worried if you didn't.
Nutty - May 04, 2005 6:23:45 am PDT #7604 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
You know, I long thought fanfic and novels were not alike. It is comforting to discover how alike fanfic writers and novelists are.
Also, guess what? Editors catch things like 6th grade spelling mistakes.
Matt the Bruins fan - May 04, 2005 6:45:52 am PDT #7605 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
To be fair, some typos do sneak in no matter how thoroughly text is proofread. I catch some at the page proof stage, and some slip by me as well.
But I half expect LKH to start transposing "our" and "are" based on her letter to the meanie 1% of fans (that have apparently taken over her life and now drive her writing).
So it is MY FAULT that she's writing worse and worse and worse.
Perhaps dissatisfied fans should change tactics to exploit her darned contrary nature, and start complaining about the well-thought-out plots and believable characterizations that they hope she'll drop.