Sweetie, it's LKH. If she stopped sucking, she'd have to get a job.

Sweetie, it's LKH. If she stopped sucking, she'd have to get a job.

(dies laughing)

I really miss gutsy original Anita. I wonder if she'd be interesting again if we had her spayed?

I don't think anything short of plugging up all of her orifices will stop the Magic Sex.

Anyway, she's so chock-full of supernatural goodness (not to mention supernatural sperm) that the magic would just blow those holes wide open again.

So she can have her cervix bumped, G-spot stimulated, Skene's gland emptied and mouth full of testicles.

Yeah, she used to be fun. Now she's just sad.

I should read the early ones.

I should read the early ones.

No you shouldn't! Then you get hooked on the crack, and then I have to listen to you get insanely disappointed when the whole thing goes down the crapper.

I dunno, I seem to have stopped cold turkey. (The last one I read was Narcissus in Chains, and the more I hear about books after that one, the less inclined I am to even think about reading them)

I don't need any more crack, and I don't need to pick up bad writing habits while I'm trying to urbanize the defective detective and stuff. Even though I know it's standard, I kind of hate that expression, but, oh well. One battle at a time. You're right, Hec. For now, I'll forgo this cheap pleasure. Maybe at Christmas, for maximum, you know, "Ho, ho, ho."

erika, if you read one LKH, read Obsidian Butterfly. It's later in the series, and you might not understand some of the back story, but it's outside Anita's regular world and is a remarkably straight forward police procedural in a world where supernatural things are common. It's the last gasp of what might have been for the series.

Obsidian Butterfly IS really good. And very gory.

Debet, I was also intrigued by the strange nature of Clare and Henry's relationship-- weird for Clare, but almost stranger for Henry, the time-flipping part of whose body seems to have decided, once he's met Clare, that it must ensure that Clare never loves somebody else.

Besides that, I wished that the possibility of alternative timelines had been explored. Especially in going forward, shouldn't Henry occassionally find himself in a time which, because some random event alters the course of events, doesn't actually come to pass? That not being the case, we're forced to conclude that they're living in an entirely predestined world, which makes it potentially much darker-- if Clare was entirely predestined to be with Henry, he could have (for example) taken advantage of her in as a teenager, and she wouldn't have been able to leave him.

In that respect, I'd love to know what happened to some alternative versions of Clare and Henry.