Books Read
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tanaiseThe cats just mangled my latest sub. They keep standing in the printer tray while it's printing, and the new page gets kinda wrinkly and sometimes smeared. We're pretending it looks fine. We're also going to just white out the extra page numbers that appeared and pretend that's all good. It's going to Writers of the Future.
I just finished reading "Dead till Dark," from the books Jaime gave me. *so* good. All the people who read the Anita Blake books should really like this book. Especially since there are minimal clothing discussions, and just the one real continuity error (unless she does have more than two hands, which I suppose is possible, though you'd think they'd mention that more than once.). I've got two other books in this series in a pile somewhere that I just saw, and I'll read them tomorrow. Mysteries are bad things to start at night, as that generally gives you just enough time to get to the really scary stuff before you have to go to sleep. Sure, it all turns out okay in the end, but the end is still another couple hundred pages away.
Basically, it's sort of mid way between creepy romanticized LARP vampires and Sunshine, perhaps a hair closer to the LARPs than Angel would be. Like Sunshine, the main character is a fairly normal girl in a slightly different world. She's southern, and I'm not, so I can't tell if the world is truly different or if it's just the southern point of view. Sookie, the main character, is sort of telepathic. Mostly very very empathic--she can read minds, but can't project. Vampires are newly legal, and thus some are 'mainstreaming'--trying to interact in ordinary human life, including one of the characters in the story. Fangbangers--girls who *like* vampires, in the creepy romantized LARP sort of way--start turning up dead. Really dead, not pre-vamp dead. And thus Sookie must find out who's doing it before she ends up dead.
I was just really impressed by how everything was handled, really. The plot made sense, everything progressed logically. Really, it was as though Charlaine Harris read Anita Blake and said, "this is crap, I could write better than this," and then did. So I'm really looking forward to the rest of the series, and am tempted to send her a couple of bucks for royalties since no money from me goes to her for the books. (this is a temptation I often have when buying used books. I haven't actually done it yet, but it still tempts me.) Oh, and Chance--while this book might be improved by the addition of a Moe or five, it does have graceland related benefits.
I just finished reading "Dead till Dark," from the books Jaime gave me. *so* good. All the people who read the Anita Blake books should really like this book. Especially since there are minimal clothing discussions, and just the one real continuity error (unless she does have more than two hands, which I suppose is possible, though you'd think they'd mention that more than once.). I've got two other books in this series in a pile somewhere that I just saw, and I'll read them tomorrow. Mysteries are bad things to start at night, as that generally gives you just enough time to get to the really scary stuff before you have to go to sleep. Sure, it all turns out okay in the end, but the end is still another couple hundred pages away.
Basically, it's sort of mid way between creepy romanticized LARP vampires and Sunshine, perhaps a hair closer to the LARPs than Angel would be. Like Sunshine, the main character is a fairly normal girl in a slightly different world. She's southern, and I'm not, so I can't tell if the world is truly different or if it's just the southern point of view. Sookie, the main character, is sort of telepathic. Mostly very very empathic--she can read minds, but can't project. Vampires are newly legal, and thus some are 'mainstreaming'--trying to interact in ordinary human life, including one of the characters in the story. Fangbangers--girls who *like* vampires, in the creepy romantized LARP sort of way--start turning up dead. Really dead, not pre-vamp dead. And thus Sookie must find out who's doing it before she ends up dead.
I was just really impressed by how everything was handled, really. The plot made sense, everything progressed logically. Really, it was as though Charlaine Harris read Anita Blake and said, "this is crap, I could write better than this," and then did. So I'm really looking forward to the rest of the series, and am tempted to send her a couple of bucks for royalties since no money from me goes to her for the books. (this is a temptation I often have when buying used books. I haven't actually done it yet, but it still tempts me.) Oh, and Chance--while this book might be improved by the addition of a Moe or five, it does have graceland related benefits.
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Date: 2004-03-28 05:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-28 10:29 am (UTC)You're so blonde.
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Date: 2004-03-28 02:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-03-29 06:22 pm (UTC)Heh. Something like Anita Blake only better written sounds like fun, so I had to check if the library has Dead Until Dark and they do, although not at my local branch, so I put in a request.
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Date: 2004-03-31 10:07 pm (UTC)Which I can't stop talking about.
One day I will.
But not today.