Narcissus in Chains; because I just won't let that horse die

[ellenel13.livejournal.com]

So, today I began choosing the books I'm going to be taking to my new dorm in a months time and I ran across the old copy of Narcissus in Chains that I rescued from my town's public library soon-to-be-trash bin a few years ago and I couldn't help myself; I actually flipped through the pages. I'm convinced these books have some sort of magnetic pull that entrances people for a few minutes. That's the only thing that can explain their continued success.

Anyway, I ended up wondering about some of the plot points that LKH pretty much forgot about. I only tried to read Ceruleans Sins after that, and I must admit it scarred my psyche, so I maybe she did mention some of this stuff and I just wasn't brave enough to wade through the horrifying attempts at a JC/Asher/Anita "threesome" (JC and Asher need the assistance of a woman to fuck? WTH?). So, I ask those of you who were strong minded enough to deal with the hell that were the next books, did LKH ever do anything with the following plots even if it was only at the "epilogue" at the end of all the books:

The thing with Dolph and his son marrying a vampire. That was the only part of Narcissus in Chains were I was actually interested in what was going on instead of just morbidly fascinated at the sheer badness of the book. Did Anita ever meet with Dolph's wife like she promised to do?

The werefox Jill. And while we're on the subject, why did LKH decide to characterize foxes as cowards? In all the legends I've ever read, foxes were either powerful tricksters and villains or sacred animals. Did LKH do her fox research from Dora the Explorer?

And no, I will not be taking that book with me to college.

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[dwg.livejournal.com]

Not to mention, DM is some two or six weeks or so after ID (and somewhere in between, Micah happened) so I have to doubly WTF. At least in the earlier books, there was a recognisable rest of a month or so in between and you could buy into what small changes went on, because stuff like that does happen.

But this? No, too much wrong.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Apparently, because lycanthropy is just that awesome.

Bad hair? Werewolf it away.

Missing leg? Wereleopard it away.

Giant peen that nobody can love? Wereleopard Anita will have sex with you because she's your omg, Leopard Queen.

Lycanthropy is running a distant second to how sex is the answer to all. Including the cure for cancer, and the capital of Norway.

[nightangel486.livejournal.com]

I want a shirt that says "Anita Blake: She's your omg, Leopard Queen"

[dwg.livejournal.com]

It'd probably make more sense than the, "Whatever you want, what ever you need" Micah shirts (http://www.laurellkhamilton.org/Merchandise/MichaShirt.jpg) available.

I also wouldn't mind having a list of all the sparkly things that Anita is, and then just something along the lines of, "all these villages share the same idiot."

Also, a t-shirt range of missing posters for characters and plot.

[pandorasblog]

I can forgive it because in some series they use that regularly and have it make sense. Like in Anne Rice's books, becoming a vampire sort of fixes the map of your body so that any changes you make automatically try to heal over the course of the daytime sleep. And I think we've seen hints of that in the Anitaverse, such as those references to weres needing surgery to be done with silver instruments in order to keep wounds from closing...

two days?!?!

[skeezix74.livejournal.com]

So Anita had sex with approximately seven different men totally about 67 times in the span of two days??? I don't even know how she walks any more. *sigh*

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Ahh, but there's the amazing healing powers of sex to help our heroine!

Also, chaffing apparently does not exist in this universe.

[reticentric.livejournal.com]

LOL a long time ago on Jerry Springer they had a girl doing that...I think it was like a thousand men in 2 days or something and after only a few men she was crying and they had to pack her with ice. Not sure how true that is of course since it's Springer and all lol.

[hellfire82.livejournal.com]

Isn't that the sign to quit?

[delphinapterus.livejournal.com]

There was an article on Salon awhile ago about one of those shoots - apparently it was lots and lots of lube, getting the men off fast, and icing the necessary bits once in a while.

Re: two days?!?!

[ellenel13.livejournal.com]

I try not to think about that little detail too much.

Re: two days?!?!

[pandorasblog]

She doesn't need to walk; she's floating on the cloud of her own speshulness. Or something. ;)

[cicipsychobunny.livejournal.com]

Which would also explain the incredibly repetitive conversations - you know how in soap operas they're always cutting between different scenes, across a dozen episodes, and a character has to recap the conversation every time the script gets back to them?

I once watched Days of Our Lives for a fortnight solid. It really, really shows (the repetitiveness, not the symptoms of too much DoOL exposure) after a week.

[vmisery.livejournal.com]

Same thing she's done with the Merry Gentry series. Same thing. Whole book crammed into practically no time. Has she been watching 24 or something?

[witchwillow.livejournal.com]

/snickers/ It's gonna take 16 books to get to the Goblin Court

*skips away having satisfactorily poked*

[rozasharn.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking since about Merry-Gentry book three that LKH's proper medium would be television. She's stopped writing self-contained stories with a plot arc that resolves neatly at the end (which is what novels are supposed to be). Now she's writing stories that continue seamlessly from one book to the next, have tons of plotlines, and never really resolve anything. That's the description of soap operas. If these stories were presented as TV shows then the short, frequent updates would work much better.

[vmisery.livejournal.com]

It keeps people watching/buying, though, I guess that's the important thing. :/ Hell, it's even worked to a degree for me, I won't buy the books anymore but I still read them looking for some kind of resolution. Although, there's only so long you can string along an audience before they get frustrated at the lack of a satisfying climax, give up, and go somewhere else.

It's amazing when an author can give you the effect of unfulfilling sex in more than one way, isn't it?

[ladymuttly1.livejournal.com]

According to the massive spoiler on the board Anita refers to her pregnancy scare as 'last year,' so I have no friggin idea of the time frame.