A light bulb joke, and LKH's rape fantasties

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

As some of you have seen, kippurbird has been flogging Danse Macabre something fierce. The flog is now on Chapter 33. While the whole thing made me laugh, there was a little joke that made me want to post it here, with Kippur's permission:


How does Anita Blake change a light bulb?

She holds it up and the world revolves around her.


This, I think, sums up everything about the Anita Blake books. As well as Hamilton's life, really. Or what she thinks of as her life. As Kippur said, the self-centeredness of both Anita and Laurell are starting to really grate.
The scene with London being forced to have sex with Anita actually scared me, especially considering London's obvious reluctance and outright fear. From what I got out of it, Anita essentially raped London, and didn't even care how it had affected him. I'd told Kippur that I'd once had a friend who had been a rape victim more than once, and one of her rapists had been an ex-boyfriend with a cocaine addiction. When my friend read that scene, she started having severe flashbacks to both the rape and watching the boyfriend's addiction, because she saw Anita's ardeur as a metaphor for a date rape drug as addictive as cocaine.
It's so frustrating -- and frightening -- to think that LKH writes this crap probably knowing full well that it could compare to such serious trauma.

Comments

[pastygothchick.livejournal.com]

If you want a taste of the series

http://www.jim-butcher.com/books/dresden/

It has sample chapters and a few short stories.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

Oooh, yay!

[easol.livejournal.com]

Enjoy the ride, rosefox! The series just hit book no. 10, which is where LKH really went off the deep end, but Butcher isn't suffering any ill effects. Still fresh, still good, and the plots are actually well-constructed. (And he proves you can have a sexy incubus vampire without endless explicit sex)

His new comic book is way better too!

[pastygothchick.livejournal.com]

IMHO JB just keeps getting better and better.

Love the panel with the "usual suspects"

Also think that he proves you can write two separate series and still have them written well.

[foxfire74.livejournal.com]

I haven't bought it in hardback, but WRT the whole incubus thing...I loved Thomas' solution to his feeding difficulties. Perfectly logical, true to the character, workable without being OMGhappilyeverafter, and as an added bonus it made me fall off my chair laughing.