Laurell K Hamilton's next book
Dec. 10th, 2003 09:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
yendiSigh. LKH's next Anita Blake book is going to be called Incubus Dreams.
Why doesn't she just go ahead and call it Poorly Edited Fuckfest of the Dead? It would be a lot more accurate.
Why doesn't she just go ahead and call it Poorly Edited Fuckfest of the Dead? It would be a lot more accurate.
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Date: 2003-12-10 06:28 am (UTC)"Incubus, Fuckubus!"
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Date: 2003-12-10 06:31 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 06:34 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 06:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 06:52 am (UTC)I find the "buy this book" link below the review an delightful touch of unplanned irony. :)
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Date: 2003-12-10 06:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 06:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 06:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 06:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 06:41 am (UTC)Thank you, that made my morning.
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Date: 2003-12-10 06:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 06:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 06:44 am (UTC)Let's be specific here...
I guess we could also call it, "You've read all of Anne Rice's old porn, so here's something new"
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Date: 2003-12-10 06:57 am (UTC)Anne RIce
Date: 2003-12-10 07:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 07:21 am (UTC)However, I am probably still going to buy the book, because I happen to like gory fuckfests. You probably didn't need to know that, huh? Well, the (complete lack of) editing does get to me. And I swear I sometimes read Literature.
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Date: 2003-12-10 10:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 10:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 07:24 am (UTC)the best use of her books is for (humorous) dramatic readings at parties.
Glad to know it isn't just me who was horrorstruck.
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Date: 2003-12-10 08:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 08:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 02:38 pm (UTC)It is important that you not confuse them, as the Simon Green book is actually worth reading.
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Date: 2003-12-10 07:45 am (UTC)Do you know when her next Merry Gentry book will be out? I just read them cause they are soft core fairy porn... What could be better?
The Next Merry Gentry book...
Date: 2003-12-10 09:14 am (UTC)I'm gonna get killed here, but I still LIKE the series. Having seen LKH in person and talked to her, She IS Anita/Merry and Richard was here Ex husband where as Micha is her current husband, though she denies this.
Obsidian Butterfly was the best of her AB series, admittedly Cerulain Sins was poorly edited but I;m STILL waiting for the next. As one of the gentlemen in the audience said "Thank you for The Merry Gentry Series, After my wife reads it, I get some" *grins* I like Faery Porn.... Give me DOYLE!
~Sw
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Date: 2003-12-10 10:12 am (UTC)Re: The Next Merry Gentry book...
Date: 2003-12-10 11:18 am (UTC)I nearly sneeszed "bullshit", because her husband, a gorgeous man, tall and blonde, was doing exactly what micha would do, hovering and being protective of his Mate.
it was kind of funny, but she was a really nice person, and I still love her writing. :P
and to the comment before about Anne Rice. I read "The Vampire Lestat" first, and I liked it, I can't stand much of her other writings, Pandora was good, be I really don't care about the homosexual rites of her vampire lineage, but if asked to watch, you know I wouldn't turn away the opportunity. :)
~Sw
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Date: 2003-12-10 08:28 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 08:32 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 09:51 am (UTC)Never -- and I mean never, ever -- in my lifetime of reading have I seen an author go so thoroughly off the rails so quickly as Hamilton. The first two were terrific. The third, pretty damn good. Then ... SWOOSH! Headfirst into a weird cesspool of creepy sex, self-indulgent soap opera, and plots that read like she's merely transcribing sessions of White Wolf RPGs.
By Obsidian Butterfly she became unreadable. Amazing. Yet she still sells.
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Date: 2003-12-10 10:14 am (UTC)What's really sad is that she now sells better than ever.
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Date: 2003-12-10 10:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 10:10 am (UTC)I saw Hamilton at a convention once. I'd gone there to meet Terry Pratchett, but she was a co-guest of honor. I went to all his panels and events, one of which featured both of them discussing how to write realistic characters.
At one point, she started rhapsodizing about how sometimes when you're writing, the characters just take over, and how Anita was always doing things Hamilton didn't intend for her to do, and how she'd argue out loud with Anita as Anita did things she should know better than to do, like this once, one of Anita's friends was dying and for some reason Anita had to get in the tub with him but even though it was the sensible thing to do she wouldn't take off her clothes or weapons first and she just sat down in the tub looking like a mad, wet cat, as Hamilton said "NO, stupid, at least take off the guns first!" This all came out pretty much as a run-on thought as I've written it.
Afterward, Hamilton turned to Pratchett and said "Has that ever happened to you?" He looked at her with an expression somewhere between mild amusement and horror and said "No." After a pause for audience giggles, he explained, very gently, that she was talking about a fictional character that came out of her head.
So it's funny to me that people are talking about Hamilton taking Anita Blake in a direction that's "not her" or a direction "she wasn't meant to go." Clearly Anita knows better than Hamilton what she should be up to. And apparently she should be up to her ears in vampire cock.
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Date: 2003-12-10 10:33 am (UTC)And I think Anita believes that she should be up to her ears in vampire, werewolf, wereleopard, werejaguar, and werehyena cock.
Oh, and happy birthday!
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Date: 2003-12-10 02:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-10 02:41 pm (UTC)I don't even remember seeing her books in the UK.
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Date: 2003-12-10 03:26 pm (UTC)You're blessed. I've read two of her books. The second book was by accident when I didn't look at who wrote the damn thing.
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Date: 2003-12-10 04:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-11 09:49 am (UTC)Still, I want to keep reading them. I like the characters, I like the insane sex scenes. So what the hell? I'm not going to deprive myself of something because it's lowbrow fodder. Fodder is nice.