Scatterings

[pjthompson]

☛ You know when that little disk icon pulses at the bottom of the document when you're saving the file? When I see it, I think, "heaving bosom."

☛ Really, in good conscience I can no longer defend Laurell K. Hamilton. It's not because everyone is unloading on her, or because she's asstard du jour—that's never prevented me from defending her before. And it's not because I've suddenly turned into a prude after reading gazillions of her books. It's because she's subverted the damned story to sex and isn't even trying to work out plots anymore.

ETA: Inspired by a discussion over at athenais's place (among other places).

☛ Can your magic genie desert you overnight? One day he's flying you through the clouds like he always has, the next he never calls.

☛ My cat was upset this morning when I changed my the sloth routine of the last week and a half of vacation. "Wait! You're leaving? I thought I'd broken you of that bad habit."




Min: Get off the computer now! It's laptime.


Random quote of the day:

"To move forward you must first look behind."

—Jeffrey Ford, The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque

Comments

[pjthompson]

athenais sums this up beautifully. I'm just hanging onto her coattails. But yes, after the last Gentry novel I thought, "Whatever happened to this story?" And I guess Mistral's Kiss is just more of the same. And have you noticed how the Anita Blake's and the Gentry novels have sort of dovetailed in one and the same novel with a variation in characterss. I still think the Anita novels are more readable--but just barely.

[magicnoire.livejournal.com]

I always kind of thought that Merry and Anita were basically the same character, just alternate universe versions of one another, but yes. I find Merry's character voice more bearable than Anita's but I agree that the Anita Blake novels are a bit more readable. irysangel and I had agreed a while back that some of the sex in the Merry Gentry novels freak me out a little bit and considering the fact that I'm a longtime fan of manga/anime, of which a large portion of its porn involves tentacles, is something I never really thought I'd ever say.

[pjthompson]

lol--and oh yeah, makes so much sense.