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[yendi]

My latest Fear Factor column is up over at Bookslut. You've probably already read it, as it's a revision of my rant on Laurell K. Hamilton from a few weeks back. Still, I'm happy I got away with "Anita Blake, Supernatural Creature Fucker," a phrase I swore would get edited out. :-)

(Oh, and for those who are wondering, I consider Anita to be both someone who fucks supernatural creatures, and someone whose ability to fuck creatures is supernatural).

I think I've gotten too frustrated in my writings over the last few months. I'll probably spend a column or three refocusing on classic horror, before diving into the contemporary stuff again (and when I do so, I'm not planning on dealing with the mainstream for a while).

The rest of Bookslut is worth checking out as well. lizlet's got a new column looking at the Oscar Noms for best adapted Screenplay (well, looking at the four runners-up, as she looked at the best adapted screenplay last month), and the Mystery Strumpet points out that there's a new Andrew Vachss crime novel (not a Burke book) due out this June.

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[shadesong.livejournal.com]

(psst. Whose, not who's.)

[yendi]

Gah! I blame LKH's editor, who also clearly edited my post.

[unrepentant.livejournal.com]

I think I'm more disgusted that you actually BOUGHT one of those books... Jeez. Almost as bad as having "Lipkin" as a last name... :)

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I think I'm more disgusted that you actually BOUGHT one of those books...

Heh. That's my fault, actually...

Well, he got me started on them. *defensive look*

[trochee.livejournal.com]

I liked the rant as a rant, and I like it as a column.

I do think that the video game license would be a best-seller. Disturbing, but a bestseller. If Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas can sell random violence, I bet that Anita Blake: Wandering Monster would be a big hit.

Frankly, I would prefer pointless fucking to pointless murder. But to each his (or her) own.

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

I bet that Anita Blake: Wandering Monster would be a big hit.

And now that we have title, we have to write it...

[jeff-morris.livejournal.com]

Was it you who called her "Anita Blake, Vampire Humper"? Because if you didn't, you should have.

Gah. And to think I knew her ex-husband...

JSM

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

The one she based Richard on?

[jeff-morris.livejournal.com]

Most likely. Man, she shit on him something awful. He supported her during those lean years, and when she hit big she dumped him so fast the air crackled. I'm not even sure if she wanted custody of their daughter.

You know how it is. After the perfect vampire sex, reality just doesn't compare, I suppose.

JSM

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yeesh. Thoroughly... unpleasant. *shakes head*

[coyo-kokopelli.livejournal.com]

LOL - I'm actually reading "Incubus Dreams" right now. Don't worry, I took it out of the library. Free crap is better.

Her novels used to be fun and had a tiny little plot buried in them. Now, it's "who am I fucking and why" for XXX number of pages. I'm going to keep reading, in some vane hope that Hamilton turns off the random sex act generator on her PC and actually WRITES something.

[phantom_wolfboy]

Did you read my "review" the other day about the Slasher Flick book? I was wondering what you thought of that.

[yendi]

I'd missed that original post!

That said, we tend to take different approaches to slasher flicks, so I suspect that I'd get a lot more out of the book.

There's an ongoing debate in horror fandom about categorizing non-slashers with slasher elements, but generally, films like the Elm Street and Predator movies don't qualify because the human element of the slasher (even if they're, essentially, inhuman in their actions) is an essential part of the movie.