Mine's pretty blase. It was Incubus Dreams... I wasn't even reading the thing, just leafing through the hardcover at Borders. It felt so alien at the time to not own the newest AB book, but I'd had my hand slapped with Narcissus, and then my head with Cerulean. I'd heard vague murmurrs from other previously die-hard AB fans/friends (including the girl who originally hooked me on the series) that the latest one was even worse, not to read it at all... but still...
So I was rifling through the thing at random, trying to discern how good a read it'd be. And I hit the discussion between Richard and Anita vis a vis his not-so-delicate touch on a girl's cervix.
I just put the book back on the shelf.
See, kinda anticlimatic. But I was so sad! It was just reality hitting me in the face: this wasn't just a two-book slump, LKH wasn't being experimental in a way that would pay off. The series was done. Dead. It had come to a shuddering halt -- most of that shuddering mine.
As for Merry, well. I never reall got into it, but after skimming though the end of whichever book it is where they're all in a puppy pile and Merry's men are assuring the new recruits how happy they'll be now because the sex is AWESOME... YES EVEN MORE AWESOME THAN THEY THINK... I stood in Waterstones thinking, "Bitch, please."
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So I was rifling through the thing at random, trying to discern how good a read it'd be. And I hit the discussion between Richard and Anita vis a vis his not-so-delicate touch on a girl's cervix.
I just put the book back on the shelf.
See, kinda anticlimatic. But I was so sad! It was just reality hitting me in the face: this wasn't just a two-book slump, LKH wasn't being experimental in a way that would pay off. The series was done. Dead. It had come to a shuddering halt -- most of that shuddering mine.
As for Merry, well. I never reall got into it, but after skimming though the end of whichever book it is where they're all in a puppy pile and Merry's men are assuring the new recruits how happy they'll be now because the sex is AWESOME... YES EVEN MORE AWESOME THAN THEY THINK... I stood in Waterstones thinking, "Bitch, please."