What was THE MOMENT for you?

[bluesimplicity.livejournal.com]

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!!

Comments

[withered-spring.livejournal.com]

You know, I had no ideas of LKH's worth as an author (or the lack thereof) when I picked up Incubus Dreams. I should have known by the title alone that it was going to be one big suckfest, but I thought, 'What harm can come of one book?' and I paid for the damned thing.

I had never read any published work which was so unrelentingly awful as Incubus Dreams. (That includes anything I've read by Clive Cussler or Anne Rice.) But yes, by the time she was in the parking lot after the wedding in the beginning of the book, I realized I had picked out a true stonker of the first magnitude.

However, I sometimes get a kick out of reading crap simply for the hilarity of it and I decided I would read on. I was not fazed by LKH's preoccupation with what everyone was wearing, nor was I frightened off by Nathaniel's ankle-length hair.

However, once things began to heat up (?) with her vampire uke and Micah... they're rolling around on the floor and Anita's having her 'to fuck or not to fuck' dilemma, I began to seriously lose my temper. I was skimming through it waiting for Laurell to get to the point already. I've known people half Laurell's age who could write steamier scenes. Between the angst and whathisbucket's 'deep, green pools', I realized that Laurell was just incoherently confusing masturbating and writing. I think what did it for me was finally, after that whole scene with Anita's vampire uke going apeshit--after Anita fucks him into submission--he's suddenly drop dead gorgeous and sunlight doesn't hurt him anymore?

By that time I could have given a shit less what the explanation was, because I'd had it up to my eyebrows with Anita's generally pissy, unlikeable demeanor and her harem of whinging, angsty men.

I had to smack my paperback against my footboard a few times before launching it across my bedroom, in the hopes returning some of the pain.

Of course, afterwards I read a friend's Merry Gentry books, which were awful and rife with WTFness throughout, but still not as bad as Incubus Dreams.

Gawd it felt good to pitch that fucker.

[withered-spring.livejournal.com]

Bah! I say he really just wanted to end it all! He was subconsciously angsting afterwards and thought, 'Is that ALL there is? Boring sex with a total hosebeast? Goodbye, cruel world!!!

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Bah! I say he really just wanted to end it all! He was subconsciously angsting afterwards and thought, 'Is that ALL there is? Boring sex with a total hosebeast? Goodbye, cruel world!!! <waits a few minutes. doesn't immolate.> Awww, shit!'

[withered-spring.livejournal.com]

...it simply HAD to be said. It's the only explanation that FITS, damn it.

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Vampire uke? BTW, you win the Internets. :)

[withered-spring.livejournal.com]

That's the only way I can remember him is by referring to him as such. Because otherwise he is such a non-entity... which to an extent all of her characters are.

But thanks! XD