Two blogs on Pro vs Con on reading LKH

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

 So the one that still reads   www.heroesandheartbreakers.com/blogs/2011/05/i-still-read-laurell-k-hamiltons-anita-blake-series
 versus the one that doesn't   www.heroesandheartbreakers.com/blogs/2011/05/no-longer-a-guilty-pleasure-why-i-dont-read-laurell-k-hamilton

I did get a kick out of the one that still reads that she has invested so much cash in the series she can;t stop now. But there wasn't a huge overflowing positive feeling about the series since she said she skips over the sex scenes and didn't care for having to defend herself from people that ask her why she still reads it. 

Comments

[devilmet67.livejournal.com]

Fans are still on the defensive. At least this one tried to articulate something.

[naeko.livejournal.com]

I hate the bullshit answer of, "You have no right to judge me for this!" Fuck you, I can judge you on whatever I want to. You know what? When I say you look nice? I'm judging you. If I can judge you kindly, I can judge you harshly. You can't have one without the other.

She's basically saying, "I don't want to discuss this with anyone whose opinions aren't mine." which sounds boring to me. I don't mind having discussions with people who feel differently than I do about media; I think it's interesting and, even if neither person goes into it with any intention of changing their opinions (which is probably 99% of these types of discussions), at least there's a back and forth. It's more interesting to have a discussion of why I like this vs why you don't like this than to just go, "and wasn't it great when-?!" over and over.

[fadeinthewash.livejournal.com]

I hate the bullshit answer of, "You have no right to judge me for this!" Fuck you, I can judge you on whatever I want to. You know what? When I say you look nice? I'm judging you. If I can judge you kindly, I can judge you harshly. You can't have one without the other.

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[dinpik.livejournal.com]

Heh. Everyone's judgmental -- just not about the same things.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

I know, right? I have the right to judge, they have the right to ignore me or judge right back.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

"she said she skips over the sex scenes"

What's left? ;)

[lady-fellshot.livejournal.com]

There's feeling guilty about having sex, debate on who's going to be next on the rotation for ardurr food, complaints from those who are not ardurr food that Anita doesn't love them enough, descriptions of what everyone is wearing (or not wearing as the case may be) sorted according to hair color, eye color, length of hair and size of genitaila.

Oh, and something about someone who wants to kill Anita until they get close enough to see the orgy and then they run screaming for the hills like Cthulhu was on their heels.