Some quotations just leave you speechless

[yendi]

"Two things I do well are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence is only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development." -- Laurell K. Hamilton (emphasis mine).

*boggles*

Comments

[catvalente.livejournal.com]

You know, I used your Anita Blake: Creature Fucker phrase at a Wiscon panel...attributed, of course. ;)

[windswept.livejournal.com]

Boggle indeed.

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

Dude, I read an interview with her from The Romantic Times....

I had to do a VOICE POST about it (http://onceupon.livejournal.com/726380.html), it was so ridiculous.

[dwivian]

Well, if the development of the character is "she's a slut and sleeps with anyting that's been undead for over 5 minutes", LKH is a genius.

[yendi]

Woohoo! I mean, it's not as cool as being at Wiscon, but it's like I was there in spirit. Snarky spirit.

[yendi]

*snort*

Her basic argument is pretty much, "if you complain about sex, you're repressed." Suuuure.

And yeah, she hasn't had a sex scene that's even met one of her four criteria in years.

[yendi]

You can cut that quotation off after the word "anything."

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. It makes me sad because I really enjoyed the first few books of the Vampire Hunter series.

And, you know, I don't object to sex in books at all. And it's not like I only read high-quality literature. I mean, I read Harlequin romance novels, for fuck's sake.

[lonesomenumber1]

At least she has a sense of humor.

[ydnic.livejournal.com]

I'd hate to see what she considers "gratuitous." *sigh*

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

For some reason, I'm imagining her saying this in the voice of Nigel Tufnel.

[dwivian]

I was trying to keep it genre specific, as I've carefully avoided her books since hearing some of the reviews by others....

[norda.livejournal.com]

Ah, there are none so blind as they who will not see.

Ms. Hamilton is someone who has made me break my cardinal rule - never mistreat a book. But the first time someone gave me an ARC of hers to read, I literally tossed it across the room after twenty pages.

????????????

[luis-mw.livejournal.com]

Ow! My brain!

I didn't know there were two LKH's in the world - what does this other one write then?

Re: ????????????

[yendi]

I can only assume she writes "about the author" features on websites for a living.

[yendi]

Heh. Guest and company need to make a pseudo-doc about the book industry.

[yendi]

You were just following Dorothy Parker's classic advice; nothing wrong with that.

[yendi]

Stuff written by authors other than her.

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm.... Does this mean that she isn't really writing (or reading) her own books these days but has a ghostwriter who keeps putting in all this unnecessary non-character developing sex and violence?

[hookncrook.livejournal.com]

That was long long ago she said that--cause I remember using that quote when NIC came out.

I'd liek to report to all here that LKH has gotten over her aversion to homosexual sex in her novels...and its still as dull as all the other sex she writes.

[yendi]

The thing is, before NIC, I'd have mostly agreed with the quote (and even now, I tend to agree with it vis-a-vis violence).

[yendi]

Actually, the ghost writer does her websites and interviews, from what I can tell.

[murnkay.livejournal.com]

2HC: Some of your more recent books, Narcissus in Chains for example, had a higher quotient of sex scene than your previous works. There was some concern from fans about this, that it felt overdone to some. What are your thoughts on the matter? Is it just an effect of growth of the Anita Blake character?

LKH: Apparently.

She didn't like that question much... (http://www.twoheadedcat.com/content/article.php?articleID=31)

[yendi]

Dude -- she said "irregardless" in one of her answers there.

[unwilly.livejournal.com]

Someone is not in touch with anything other than the bong.

[jerel.livejournal.com]

But with Harlequin, you already know what you're getting. With LKH, she did some weird 360 on the readers. It's like they changed the product completely without changing the packaging. Like buying a bottle of pepsi and it turns out to be prune juice.

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

Totally!

You know.... I much prefer products that are honest. Playboy? Totally honest. "Hey, we like sports, investigative reporting, and naked chicks!" Maxim? Not so honest. "Hey, we like, stuff... yeah, stuff. And if that stuff happens to be sold by almost-naked chicks, well, it's really that we like stuff."

*headshake*

LKH lacks fundamental respect for her readers.

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

God, she's even more snotty when you give her more page space.

I am glad she didn't become a literature prof. That would have been HORRIBLE.

[rowancat.livejournal.com]

I just looked up the definition of self righteous clueless denial and it had a entry for her and her interviews.

[yendi]

There are lots of folks who talk about how they could/would have been a professor, but I don't have the slightest reason to believe that Laurell would have made it to, let alone through, grad school. And she sure as hell hasn't shown any indications of actually being very familiar with canon literature.

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

*nodnodnod*

For some reason, I'm also very amused by the idea of her being a working scientist. I mean, she won't use editors. She'd freak at the peer review process.

[yendi]

Oh, she respects them. She respects the $15.57-$25.95 that they pay, which allows he to avoid having to take a day job, like, say, becoming a college professor.

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

Nah, that just puts her on the same level as carnies pulling one over on the rubes.

But carnies are way more interesting.

[yendi]

Although it would be fun to watch: "What do you mean, there's no need for a sex scene in my analysis of the Rhesus Macaque genome? It furthers the plot!"

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

Authors who refused to work with editors.... They irk me on a personal level.

[ckd]

Nah, she'd want to do a bonobo sequence; that actually might justify the sex scene....

[phantom_wolfboy]

So not only does she not edit what she writes . . . apparantly she doesn't read it, either.

[cissa.livejournal.com]

It is amazing how boring she can make all that sex. I'd say that takes some sort of talent... or, perhaps, anti-talent.