... like everyone I am disgusted at what is happening to Peter. I would have to say the torture scene with Peter and his sister in OB were the only things in all the books that came close to pushing me out of my 'comfort zone' - to quote LKH's Negative Reader Rant.
What poster steffiebug said about LKH changing from just being lame to being sickly offensive started me thinking...
After what I've heard about Harlequin I wonder if she wasn't truly affected by the huge backlash to her rant and decided to show us how bad it can get. After Dear Neg Reader everywhere on the net people were saying 'bitch plz, you haven't approached my comfort zone, that sex is boring'. In Harlequin, I'm sure the sex will still be boring as hell and her prose will not have improved, but it sounds like LKH is pushing every possible line to offend people. Starting with Edward being tamed and joining the monster defense league, to Joseph's wife being vilified for not wanting to share her husband, now we have Peter coming back with major sexual issues - at 15. It's like she's just *trying* to offend the readers with anything she can wring out of her character list.
Is it for publicity? Is it because she'd like to 'show us' that she CAN do the things she alluded to in her Rant blog but found out that she can't actually write better books than she already does? Therefore she's just childishly going to throw in crazy hot button offensive issues to prove that she's 'edgy' and can push us out of that comfort zone, dagnabbit!
Sorry for blathering on. lol Back to Peter... I bet she will have sex OR she'll harken back to what I hated even MORE than the boring sex... 'metaphysical sex'. Remember all that 'healing' she used to do and angst about? I bet we dust off those skillz and she has to 'heal' Peter (maybe from those tiger scratches?) and use Raina/the munin... blah, blah, blah. I'm sure she'll end up victimizing Peter and there will be people encouraging her and a plot device 'forcing' her to do it.
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Date: 2007-05-28 02:35 am (UTC)What poster steffiebug said about LKH changing from just being lame to being sickly offensive started me thinking...
After what I've heard about Harlequin I wonder if she wasn't truly affected by the huge backlash to her rant and decided to show us how bad it can get. After Dear Neg Reader everywhere on the net people were saying 'bitch plz, you haven't approached my comfort zone, that sex is boring'. In Harlequin, I'm sure the sex will still be boring as hell and her prose will not have improved, but it sounds like LKH is pushing every possible line to offend people. Starting with Edward being tamed and joining the monster defense league, to Joseph's wife being vilified for not wanting to share her husband, now we have Peter coming back with major sexual issues - at 15. It's like she's just *trying* to offend the readers with anything she can wring out of her character list.
Is it for publicity? Is it because she'd like to 'show us' that she CAN do the things she alluded to in her Rant blog but found out that she can't actually write better books than she already does? Therefore she's just childishly going to throw in crazy hot button offensive issues to prove that she's 'edgy' and can push us out of that comfort zone, dagnabbit!
Sorry for blathering on. lol Back to Peter... I bet she will have sex OR she'll harken back to what I hated even MORE than the boring sex... 'metaphysical sex'. Remember all that 'healing' she used to do and angst about? I bet we dust off those skillz and she has to 'heal' Peter (maybe from those tiger scratches?) and use Raina/the munin... blah, blah, blah. I'm sure she'll end up victimizing Peter and there will be people encouraging her and a plot device 'forcing' her to do it.