http://bluesimplicity.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] bluesimplicity.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] lkh_lashouts2006-10-04 01:20 pm

What was THE MOMENT for you?

Hey Fellow Lashers. 

I've got a question I've been wondering about for you all. Consider it a survey of sorts.

What was THE MOMENT when you knew that you were done with AB:VH (Or even Merry?) I'm not talking about the bad grammer, the endless, bore me to death sex scenes, or LKH not even remembering how to spell her own character names. (We've all plodded along with those in the hopes that it would someday get better.) I mean the moment when it FINALLY happened. When you threw whatever book you were reading across the room and just KNEW you were never going to pick it up again?


For me, it had to be in Incubus Dreams. I almost did it when we found out Richard was now a rape victim (WHAT?? A-fucking-NOTHER one?? Can you not have a dick in the AB world and not get raped?) But I held on. Then it was almost the sex scene were Anita goes on and on in great detail about barfing and blowjobs, followed by the 18 thousand fuckmefuckmefuckmes at the end. But not quite - I was plodding along until....

The bad guys leave a note. 

After all this drama, all this tension (well, no not really, but let's pretend), said bad guys don't even show up and do a "Whoops! Our bad! So sorry. Gotta-go-bye!" 

For me, that was IT! I was never ever EVER going to pay good money to read this woman's crap again. And I feel so much freer for it!

What was everyone's else THAT'S IT moment of clarity? 

Just curious.

Blue

P.S. For Merry, it was in the last book, which I didn't even bother to read, when my friend mentioned to me that is was 384 pages and they STILL hadn't made it to the Seelie Court. But they sure as hell did fuck alot. BAH!!

[identity profile] dinsedaledarby.livejournal.com 2006-10-04 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
the moment when I really, really considered throwing in the towel was kind of late. I kind of knew in the back of my head that the book was terrible but the moment that defined it for me was when I was in trig class in my senior year of high school and my incredibly awesome math teacher Mrs. Barber wanted to look at Incubus dreams which was "the new book" at the time. I let her look at it. It was taking me forever to read it and she commented that she couldn't believe i hadn't finished it earlier.
she was on bloody bones at the time.
I smiled.

that was also the time when she suggested that Johnny Depp would make an excellant Jean-claude if they ever made a movie of the book, god forbid. needless to say i couldn't consentrate for the rest of the class.

I had hated the two books before but I don't really know why it didn't occur to me that I should stop reading this crap....
unless the next book has Edward in the summary I'm pretty sure I will rely on this community for teh snarkage.

:)