The Works of Laurell K. Hamilton

[duskwolf]

Best quote from the Anita vs. Batman comparison:

Jean-Claude, whose dialogue is best read in a voice not unlike James from Team Rocket's.

I've never liked J-C. I think this guy helped me put my finger on why.

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Tee hee. Fun to read Darla's myspace blog[/color] defending her boss. No, Richard is NOT based on her ex! No, Micah is NOT based on her current husband! Hee hee. I'm imagining Darla ripping out the offending afterwords where Laurell bags on her ex, crumpling them up and eating them.

I love how in that cahcrazy photo mentioned earlier in the thread, Darla's lower body has mysteriously vanished.

It creeps me out that LKH has surrounded herself, staff and husband, with uberfans. I think that if I was an author, I would want that separation between my personal and professional life. But hey, normal boundaries... ya know like between author and character... Laurell Sue just don't do.

[LurkerNan]

I just finished reading A Lick Of Frost. I know I've bitched about the fairy porn, but it was actually better in this last book. The sex was kept to a minimum; there were just two instances of sex in the book. The rest was... actual plot movement. Someone must have slipped LKH an artistic enema.

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OMG, that's the title? Hahahahahahahahahaha. That's so awesome.

[LurkerNan]

I had to come back to this thread after all this time because I know the title A Lick of Frost made you giggle...

So I thought you'd appreciate that the next title in this series is call Swallowing Darkness.

Seriously... Swallowing Darkness. Considering that one of the Skittles is called her Darkness makes it overt porn in my opinion... and I haven't even read it yet. I'd love to say I won't read it, but I know I will. Since Merry is pregnant with twin babies with a total of 6 fathers genetically between the two, I can't wait to see how these kids turn out.

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Jun 10, 2008 18:54:23 GMT -4 LurkerNan said:

So I thought you'd appreciate that the next title in this series is call Swallowing Darkness.

Why is there no emoticon for falling over dead?

Seriously, my sides are about to split and kill me. I'm surprised I can stop laughing long enough to read this.

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This thread kills me. I've never read LKH's books, but I've heard of her because I love the supernatural romance genre. Anyway this is some good dish. The woman sounds batshit.

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She's a nutball. And an awful writer to boot. (Of course, she says that she can take words and wrap them sensuously around the page and make them sound like poetry, etc, etc. You know, all the things you say about YOUR OWN WORK.) I seriously laughed till I cried reading her old thread on Fametracker, where people used to post bad quotes from her books. The only one I can remember now is "his eyes were a stormy blue, like the sea after a storm." I also remember from my own reading that when someone got shot in the head, the go-to description was usually "blood and things thicker than blood spattered the wall." And when Anita has sex with guys, their penis is usually "almost too big." (I maintain that LKH's bizarre size obsession just shows that she must have awful sex, despite all her "I looooove sex and want to talk about sex all the time and think of nothing but sex and my former boyfriends just couldn't handle how much I like sex" stuff. If all you've got to up the ante is "and HIS penis is even BIGGER" I've got to think you're pretty low on the sensuality scale. It's like she's still twelve and thinks big penis=good in bed because she has no idea what else sex is about. And I seem to remember some vampire whose penis was a foot WIDE. Give me a fucking break.)

Also, can I just say that the bad porn would bother me less - it would not be any less bad, but would bother me less - if it wasn't accompanied by LKH's ridiculous excuses that FORCE the women to have sex? I only read the first Merry Gentry, but IIRC she is pretty much blackmailed into her sexual antics because she has to get pregnant before someone else does or bad supernatural shit goes down. And in the Anita Blake books, it was all, Oh, you have to rub all over this naked guy to bring the sex energy to heal the werewolves. Oh, you have to use the sex energy to channel the magic to make whatever contrived plot point happen. Oh, your vampire boyfriend's magic is based in sex energy and now you're infected with it and must fuck people uncontrollably lest you explode. Jesus, if you want to write porn just write it. I don't know why there has to be this undertone of Well, but she HAD to. Combined with how all the other women in that series seem to be evil or sluts or sexually deviant or all of the above it just really grosses me out. And there are probably a few who are just whimpering, ineffectual girly-girls, because as we all know there is no middle ground. You know Anita is totally that chick who hangs around guys bashing other girls for their stupid femininity just so the guys will think she's cool and different and like her.

Jean-Claude, whose dialogue is best read in a voice not unlike James from Team Rocket's.

I always heard him as Pepe LePew, but this is better. Why ARE the "sexy" vampires always French? Did Anne Rice start it?

[yournamehere]

Jun 14, 2008 23:31:26 GMT -4 @marchingpenguin said:

The only one I can remember now is "his eyes were a stormy blue, like the sea after a storm."

It was acceptable in 'The Princess Bride'. It isn't acceptable when you're trying to get someone to take your writing seriously

I also remember from my own reading that when someone got shot in the head, the go-to description was usually "blood and things thicker than blood spattered the wall."

I could accept that from someone who isn't aligned with the police as a sort of paranormal investigator. For someone who is...CRAP!

And I seem to remember some vampire whose penis was a foot WIDE.

First of all, how does homeboy walk with all that junk?

Second? Ow. Just...ow. I stopped reading after a while, but if Anita can take that...well, she should just be doing porn. I don't mean LKH should be writing porn, I mean LKH should be writing that Anita Blake is now Anita FootWide and has given up solving mysteries to do porn.

Also, can I just say that the bad porn would bother me less - it would not be any less bad, but would bother me less - if it wasn't accompanied by LKH's ridiculous excuses that FORCE the women to have sex?

*shrug* I'm going to keep mum on this one, only because I complain that actual porn is written with 'stories' too.

Jean-Claude, whose dialogue is best read in a voice not unlike James from Team Rocket's.

I always heard him as Pepe LePew, but this is better. Why ARE the "sexy" vampires always French? Did Anne Rice start it?

I hate the fact that vampires are generally sexy. All vampires are lions, apparently. But even in that particular animal kingdom, there should be a few hyenas running around. But then again, how will emo kids convince themselves that they're vampires if there's a chance they'll turn out to be the Cletus and Brandine of vampires?

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And I seem to remember some vampire whose penis was a foot WIDE

Seriously? Does he faint every time he gets hard?