verushka70

comment reply attempt number two...

It was professional badfic.

Exactly! I was amazed someone could write so badly unintentionally! And further amazed one could garner so many fans that way! *shakes head*

Also, yeah, Anne Rice's best vampire stuff appeared in the first two (maybe three) books. The quality jumped down the abyss after Queen of the Damned never to return.

True, very true. And sad.

I haven't read Anita Blake. Meh.

You're not missing much. All of her issues are embarrassingly obvious in her Anita Blake books. Her progression from monogamous feminist vampire slayer necromancer detective with chip on her shoulder to polyamorous human/vampire/wereleopard femdom was apparently the author's as well, from what little I've read. (I mean, except for the vampire slaying, necromancing, vampires, and wereleopards...) Anita's ex in the books is heavily modeled on her RL ex. He's just as one-dimensionally slammed fictionally as many bitter, divorced people slam their ex-spouses in RL. When called on that -- by some of her fanbase, via book reviews on Amazon.com -- and how he was cut off at the knees in the books, characterization-wise (after her RL divorce), she lashed out at them on her blog as intolerant of her lifestyle. *facepalm* Forty going on fourteen. Even her porn isn't that good. I've read way better fanfic porn. Hell, I've written way better fanfic porn. *toots own horn*

Seriously. You're not missing much if you haven't read Laurell K. Hamilton. It's so bad it's good.

But Stephanie Meyer and the Twilight crap... it's not even good-bad, it's just bad.

I'll have to try the Joe Pitt series and get another copy of Lost Souls. After I pay that huge library fine...

Don't know if you read about werewolves, but I've dug Kelley Armstrong female werewolf books.

I haven't read much werewolf stuff -- the occasional short story in an anthology of horror/fantasy/supernatural stories. Wouldn't mind a sex-positive female-werewolf re-telling of Red Riding Hood for adults; something like the movie The Company of Wolves, with the wolves as female sexuality.

Last night me & the bf watched Teeth. It was shlocky, satirical, funny like you'd expect a low-budget, edgy horror movie to be. I think Teeth is the feminist fear-of-women's-sexuality movie people claimed Ginger Snaps and all its sequels were (but weren't).

We'd watched Let The Right One In before that. All in all, an unsettling night for the bf. Heh. *g*

The only bummer thing was, I'd never seen either of these two flicks before, and I predicted multiple crucial plot twists in both, so nothing came as a big surprise in either.

I'm frequently surprised at how lauded some movies are for just barely stepping outside the borders of convention, yet still remaining ultimately completely predictable and within the bounds of what people are taught to expect in narrative film. Either I've seen a helluva lot of movies, or I am just that good, or neither of those two films was as earth-shatteringly ground-breaking as reviews made them out to be. Or some combination thereof. For once I'd like to be genuinely surprised, and not because of some sudden major gore or violence. I'm just so picky that way. *g*

The Kelley Armstrong books sound intriguing, though.