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

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

Okay, now I HAVE to start reading the Dresden books.

[pastygothchick.livejournal.com]

Though I thought it shows writing talent to be on a porn set in Blood Rites and it doesn't get smutty. The one kiss with Lara in White Night that he describes is far more sexual than pages and pages of pron.

[pastygothchick.livejournal.com]

The only thing better is listening to James Marsters read it.

[pastygothchick.livejournal.com]

Just the first 4 and Small favor. He does voices for all the characters. Hearing him read Toot Toot in SF i almost pissed my pants laughing.

[easol.livejournal.com]

I don't usually listen to audio books, but I may make an exception for this...

[pastygothchick.livejournal.com]

Audio samples on the site i provided just click on the book and there's a link for the samples.

[bludflower.livejournal.com]

I second that.

[morriganscrow.livejournal.com]

James Marsters...Harry Dresden....

ARGLE BARGLE!!

[pastygothchick.livejournal.com]

Listening to the Russian accent he does for Sanya OMG James needs to play a Russian guy.

[brightlotusmoon.livejournal.com]

The male friend I mentioned earlier -- the one who'd been raped -- had been an amateur porn actor for several years in his early twenties. He says that there was more laughter on the sets than anything else; actors could get aroused and stay aroused easily, but it was so hard to keep a straight face in some moments.

[easol.livejournal.com]

That WAS funny, and without a single description of orgasmic screams or elusively-described body parts. And the people on it were acting like actual people, not genitals with bodies attached.

But my favorite part was probably when Bob went crazy with joy upon finding that poor naive Harry is going to be on a porn set. When he started talking about the number of "boners" a movie was rated, I lost it completely.

"The one kiss with Lara in White Night that he describes is far more sexual than pages and pages of pron."

Woooooooorrrrrrdddddd. That was damn hot.

[pastygothchick.livejournal.com]

I loved the set up when they were telling him about strange events.

This woman got hit by a car.

What's so strange about that?

She was water-skiing at the time.

[easol.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhh, I loved that too. I laughed so hard just imagining that, and Thomas saying oh so very seriously that she was water-skiing when it happened.

To paraphrase an old saying about dying and comedy...

[dinpik.livejournal.com]

"Titillating is easy, characterization is hard!"

[tsubaki-ny.livejournal.com]

Plus, he acknowledges consequences.

[pastygothchick.livejournal.com]

Those consequences apply to not only the people in the books, but Harry himself.

One of the best example is when Harry tries to get out of a contract with a faerie using Michael's sword. Pretty much the rest of the book is Harry trying to fix his mistake. Harry isn't perfect and isn't always right. Harry gets the stuffing knocked out of him quite often. People die in Harry's universe. People get hurt.

That is what attracts me to the stories. The ability that Butcher has to make a flawed human being remain human with all the supernatural stuff around him.

[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.

[tsubaki-ny.livejournal.com]

Yes you do. (Although it didn't really addictively pick up for me until book 4, "Summer Knight," I could still recognize the writing as GOOD writing in books 1-3. Whatever that means. I'm jet lagged. ^___^ Hope I make sense.) But yeah, Butcher seems to know people, and their workings.