Reading Laurell K Hamilton

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I can't remember if this has been mentioned before, but Pop Lit appears to have a book club guide called Reading Laurell K Hamilton. Google ebooks has most of the first chapter and this site has the first two pages of every chapter for preview, if you want to take a look. The book itself seems a bit expensive.

From what I can tell from the preview, the book seems a bit more even handed towards LKH's writing than Arduer was. It also covered the Merry series as well as Nightseer and LKH's lesser known works. The discussion questions were also rather interesting.

From chapter one:
<i>-How did early influences shape Hamilton's viewpoint?
-In what ways are her major characters, Anita Blake and Merry Gentry, drawn from her own personal life and experiences?
-Are Anita and Merry fictionalized idealizations of Laurell K Hamilton?</i>

While the book seems to cover a lot of the usual, from the previews later chapters in the book make mention of LKH's Dear Negative Reader blog and the lack of freedom on the official forum. If anyone actually has a copy of the book it'd be interesting to see some of the other discussion questions and topics raised considering it doesn't seem to be shying away from that which is less than praiseworthy.