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[lovedstrangely.livejournal.com]

Does anyone here plan on giving The Harlequin a chance? I've read a few good reviews and the teaser was so much better than anything she's put out in a long, long time. It makes me wonder if she might possibly redeem herself with this one?

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[dan-lian.livejournal.com]

I will get it either with Amazon, with its 40% discount, or once it gets the Barnes & Noble discount sticker (I'm a member, so I get discounts there). But I'll NEVER pay full price.

[booster-blue.livejournal.com]

I'll be over here, dead from laughing.

[pandaemonaeum.livejournal.com]

I've given up on Merry, but I can't bring myself to give up on Laurita yet. I was appalled by Danse Macabre, and I am appalled by some of the previews for The Harlequin, but I will probably give it a chance.

Even if it's just to snark. :)

[insaint.livejournal.com]

I'll probably check it out, but I've absolutely no expectations of quality. Some days, though, a completely trashy bad book is just what the doctor ordered, and LKH fits the bill nicely.

[brightlyiburn.livejournal.com]

For me, after Incubus Dreams, the only situation in which that sort of trashy bad book would be just what the doctor ordered would be euthanasia. And not the humane kind, either.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Ah, torrents will be my saviour. I've taken to giving the books an electronic read-through before deciding whether or not to give over good money to get my hands on the actual product. *pets internets*

[insaint.livejournal.com]

*grin* Granted. But I'm weird this way. I take absolutely no enjoyment from reading LKH (after Obsidian Butterfly, really), but it passes the time and I'm morbidly curious.

Never paying full price for them ever again, though.

[cactus-wren.livejournal.com]

In that my goal is to read 100 books this year (I'm currently on #53), I will probably read it as it will further my goal. That, and I have a gift card to Barnes and Noble, so I won't end up paying a penny for it.

[stefflebug.livejournal.com]

Given what I've read of the spoilers on the LKH board I will not be buying this.

I'm going to give some other brave souls on here a chance to read it and then see what they say, then consider if I'm even going to bother getting it from the library.

The wtf-ery has driven me away completely, hell I got rid of the rest of the series this past weekend.

[daphne-gateau.livejournal.com]

I have it ordered from the library. I am also on PaperBackSwap, and so I've got it requested there. I'd buy it second hand. I will definately read it, but I won't pay hardback for it. But I don't pay hardback $ for anything really.

You lovely Lashers will probably think I'm nuts, lol, but as awful as parts of DM were there were kernels of stuff I found interesting. To me it was an improvement over the few books that had come before.

I'm still interested in many of the secondary characters. Anita though... I doubt it's possible to redeem her in my eyes at this point. Unless we find out that she's been under someone else's control since NiC. That would be cool and totally make sense to me.

I continue to read this series for the secondary characters. If they keep getting ruined, like what I fear is happening with Edward, then I don't know if I'll continue. I will give Harlequin a chance though.

As for Merry, I read the first book and she never appealed to me as much as Anita. I have the second book around here (found it free) but I don't know if I should bother reading it with so many other great books I could spend time with.

[everstar3.livejournal.com]

Ideally, I will pick it up in the bookstore when my friend and I are out on the town and we'll flip through to some of the particularly gruesome sex bits and be like, "Oh my god. Oh my GOD. She's really lost her mind." And then I will put it back down and spend my $19.99 on something else.

[spoiled-saint.livejournal.com]

It's gonna be the first book in the series that I'm not going to read. Feel no desire to do so. I don't think it will be any better, or different in any way, and I REALLY don't want to read pod!Edward.

[missrogue.livejournal.com]

This is how it's gonna go down: I'll get it from the library...and if I can read about 80 pages into it without wanting to stab my eyes out with a spoon...then yes.

[kyalesyin.livejournal.com]

I'm not gonna bother

[x--shameless.livejournal.com]

I'll be reading it, if only for a good laugh :D

It's like a car wreck, I just can't look away.

[jeannette.livejournal.com]

The spoilers on the message board claim there's no sex for 15 chapters... and at least non for the next 5 after that. It's almost enough to tempt me.

I'll wait till the library has it in. Not giving her my money.

[jeannette.livejournal.com]

ICON. FROM WHERE?

MAY I HAVE?

RIP, pornish_pixies

[ladyshiin.livejournal.com]

Ditto. I love my library the people there are awesome and deserve my support. Laurita? Nah.

[teamlexana.livejournal.com]

*Pets BitComet*

From what I've learned about this book so far, I have no desire to pay to read it. Either through the bookstore or just the gas that will be wasted in the car ride to my local libary.

I have no desire to read any further about Nathaniel bossing around the rats, Anita making someone beg her for her help, PodWard, PodRapheal, PodPeter and his underaged raping ways that get excused as "buyers remorse" because you know, if the sex is bad for any reason - it's the womans fault, Anita claiming that men in strip clubs are better behaved then women, etc. etc.

I could go on but it will just upset me further. *cries* Where has my Anita gone?!!!!!

[saucyirishlass.livejournal.com]

Oh my, is that icon what I think it is?

I'll get it from the library...and if I can read about 80 pages into it without wanting to stab my eyes out with a spoon...then yes.

That's pretty much the way DM went down for me, except I couldn't bring myself to pass chapter 20, so I threw it down and swore never to read it again. A few months later, I picked it back up. I only hope my will is stronger this time to quit for good.

[gweneth-syeira.livejournal.com]

If I hate my brain and eyes so very mucho, I'll wait for the library

[reluctantmember.livejournal.com]

not sure yet. maybe i'll buy a used copy. most of the spoilers left me gagging, but still... who can resist such great writing skills?

library isn't an option here unfortunately.

[brightlyiburn.livejournal.com]

Oh crap.

If there's no sex for at least 20 chapters...

Then that means they're going to be talking for at least 20 chapters! Talking, analyzing, whining, moaning, complaining, bitching, angsting...call it what you want, but there's gonna be twenty chapters of it!

Ahhhhhhhh! Run away! Run away!

(Everyone cross your fingers and hope I'm wrong.)

[ellenel13.livejournal.com]

I won't because after reading some of LKH's post, I just find her insulting and unprofessional. She lost me as a reader during the Ronnie smackdown in DM.

I will be reading the snark on this comm though.

[ladymina.livejournal.com]

I will be reading the snark here
I won't torture myself with reading the whole thing and I do have better things to spend my money on ...
But my morbid curiosity wants to know what'll happen ...
I do hope someone will do an overall snark and we'll also get the chapter by chapter snark