Laurell K Hamilton's next book

[yendi]

Sigh. 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.

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[eudaimonia.livejournal.com]

Oh oh, I know I know (raises hand)

"Incubus, Fuckubus!"

[martinhesselius.livejournal.com]

ROFLMAO!

[shellefly.livejournal.com]

... so I take it that after Obsidian Butterfly, things went downhill?

[yendi]

Very. You can read my review of her last one over here.

[dixie.livejournal.com]

A man after my own heart.

Thank you, that made my morning.

[cissa.livejournal.com]

*snort* How true. I've given up on her.

[bobthegoat.livejournal.com]

Poorly Edited Fuckfest of the Dead For Lonely College Girls Who Don't Date...

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"

[tablesaw]

After? I didn't even make it up to Obsidian Butterfly.

[shellefly.livejournal.com]

I didn't either. I read Obsidian Butterfly first, and then got distracted while backtracking through her earlier work and stopped reading.

[shellefly.livejournal.com]

Gack.

I find the "buy this book" link below the review an delightful touch of unplanned irony. :)

[yendi]

The book before OB was awful, and made me say, "well, I'll give her one more book." OB was damned good, but she's clearly spent all her writing talent now.

[yendi]

*bows* Thanks!

[yendi]

Oh, those books are so not at the college reading level any more.

[yendi]

Hee! Yeah, it's pretty much a given that every book, even the ones that are panned, will get a link. That said, if someone uses that link to read Amazon user reviews, and then goes and buys something good while at Amazon, Bookslut does get some money, so it's a good thing. :-)

[whitecrow0.livejournal.com]

Hehehe; I LOVE that title! (Yours, of course.)
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.

[foxxydancr.livejournal.com]

I only made it through one of her books, it was Caress of twilight? or kiss of shadows? or fuck of nightfall? I don't remember. something like that. ANd yes, it was poorly edited. And it wasn't even good in it's fuckfestness.

the best use of her books is for (humorous) dramatic readings at parties.

Glad to know it isn't just me who was horrorstruck.

Anne RIce

[dixie.livejournal.com]

I loved Interview with the Vampire, but have never read past the first couple of pages or so of The Vampire Lestat. I start giggling at the idea of his being a rock star, and can't properly suspend disbelief--or laughter.

[hookncrook.livejournal.com]

UGGHHH! I swear she is turning Anita Blake into someone she never was supposed to be. And you are right, bad editing everywhere. I hate editing and as I read her books I find at least 1 major typo per chapter... For all the money those books make you'd think they could hire a decent editor/s.

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?

[bheansidhe.livejournal.com]

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!! *spew*

[bheansidhe.livejournal.com]

Oh, those are the fairy porn books, not the Anita Blake books. The FIRST FOUR or FIVE Anita Blake books are good popcorn-horror. The series took a pretty dramatic turn after Blue Moon Rising.

[bheansidhe.livejournal.com]

And I will have you know that I just forwarded your quote, in an email, to my MOTHER. She's of the same opinion but her ladylike Southern breeding would never allow her to verbalize it thusly.

[foxxydancr.livejournal.com]

but they still suck...

The Next Merry Gentry book...

[softlywhispered.livejournal.com]

Should be out in April, or at least thats what they were advertising in the proggy thing from Dragon Con.


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

[coffeeinhell.livejournal.com]

Oh dear Lawd A-mighty did that make me laugh.

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.

[rollick.livejournal.com]

*snicker*

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.

[yendi]

Oh, I'm fine with gory fuckfests, if they're well-written and have good plots and characters.

Re: The Next Merry Gentry book...

[yendi]

She denies it? Are you kidding me?!? The last book made it so pathetically obvious that RIchard was her ex, it was sad.

[yendi]

*nod* There were lots of reasons I compared the series to Xanth. The qualitative drop-off and the creepy sex were big ones.

What's really sad is that she now sells better than ever.

[whitecrow0.livejournal.com]

Am I a slut if I know it sucks and still gleefully consume it?

[coffeeinhell.livejournal.com]

I wonder sometimes if she doesn't sell so well because people who would be otherwise too shy to buy porn can pick her books up at Barnes & Noble and carry them on the bus without shame.

[yendi]

Ha! That's great! I was lucky enough to attend a small lunch with Connie Willis when she came to Emory a few years ago, and when someone asked her if characters ever ran away with a plot, she responded with something along the lines of, "I'm the author. If a character does something I don't want them to do, I get rid of the character."

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!

Re: The Next Merry Gentry book...

[softlywhispered.livejournal.com]

Yeah in her reading she said that though they "bore a resemblence" they weren't truly patterened after the "real" people.


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

[phantom_wolfboy]

I know you know this, but the Anita Blake book was not called Blue Moon Rising. Blue Moon Rising was by Simon Green. I think the Anita Blake book was just Blue Moon.

It is important that you not confuse them, as the Simon Green book is actually worth reading.

[phantom_wolfboy]

Because she couldn't think of a way to have that as the name of a nightclub, even in Anita's alternate universe?

[lovingboth]

Having read this and followed various links, I'm quite pleased to say I've never, ever, heard of her.

I don't even remember seeing her books in the UK.

[woodrunner.livejournal.com]

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.

[felisdemens.livejournal.com]

Ooh, excellent! You're my favorite reviewer now.

[myrrhdusa.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure why I keep reading them. I don't think she is a particularly good storyteller, and the editing does suck.

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.