I can't speak for anyone else, but I keep reading in the hope we will get something resembling the old books back. I like the noir style plots, the occult references, the fact that centuries-old vampires were sometimes on the side of good, and the fact that LKH wrote about a bunch of people who were, at best, pains in the backside and at worst deviant psychopaths, and made you want to read about them.
I keep hoping that she will wake up and realise that whilst you should put a little of yourself into your characters, they are not a mirror reflection of what you want to be.
Every book, I hold onto this tiny little spark of hope that I will get back that feeling of being desperate to know what happens in the next one as soon as I have finished the one I am reading.
Of course, every time LKH tells us we just don't understand, like the EMO kids who PM me on message boards, I lose that little bit more respect for her. I don't really care about her pretensions to feminism, her fluffy-bunny paganism, her new sycophantic husband, her 'bastard' of an ex, or any one of her 2 million issues. I want her to go back to her writing group, run her ideas past them, and take the goddamn constructive criticism on the chin.
If she wants to sell more books, she has to win back her core audience. Like it or not, that's people like us, who are deeply disappointed in how this series has gone.
A few hints: I want Anita to kill things, not fuck them. I want Edward to kill things, not fuck Anita. I want more people like Olaf, and fewer people like - actually, I can't think of any more people. I want her to ditch Claudia's cheerleading and take more advice from Elinore. I want Marianne to show up riding shotgun with Edward and teach Anita how to control her Crotch of Doom. I would like Anita to raise a few zombies, and shoot the shit with Larry. I would like to know how Animators, Inc. is doing, because Anita sure as hell doesn't work there anymore, co-op or not.
And if you can't do that, get Manny to train Larry up, then set him, Edward, and Olaf after Anita.
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Date: 2006-12-31 11:40 am (UTC)I keep hoping that she will wake up and realise that whilst you should put a little of yourself into your characters, they are not a mirror reflection of what you want to be.
Every book, I hold onto this tiny little spark of hope that I will get back that feeling of being desperate to know what happens in the next one as soon as I have finished the one I am reading.
Of course, every time LKH tells us we just don't understand, like the EMO kids who PM me on message boards, I lose that little bit more respect for her. I don't really care about her pretensions to feminism, her fluffy-bunny paganism, her new sycophantic husband, her 'bastard' of an ex, or any one of her 2 million issues. I want her to go back to her writing group, run her ideas past them, and take the goddamn constructive criticism on the chin.
If she wants to sell more books, she has to win back her core audience. Like it or not, that's people like us, who are deeply disappointed in how this series has gone.
A few hints: I want Anita to kill things, not fuck them. I want Edward to kill things, not fuck Anita. I want more people like Olaf, and fewer people like - actually, I can't think of any more people. I want her to ditch Claudia's cheerleading and take more advice from Elinore. I want Marianne to show up riding shotgun with Edward and teach Anita how to control her Crotch of Doom. I would like Anita to raise a few zombies, and shoot the shit with Larry. I would like to know how Animators, Inc. is doing, because Anita sure as hell doesn't work there anymore, co-op or not.
And if you can't do that, get Manny to train Larry up, then set him, Edward, and Olaf after Anita.
/rant