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May 03, 2009

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I need to expand my reading, but after i finish turning my brain to mush. I'm currently in a Laurell Hamilton fix, and am finishing my way through her 2 series. They are great reading when I am sitting at the overlong spotlights on my way to-from work.

I gave up on Hamilton after the first eight or so. I just couldn't stand the soap opera elements.

I recommend Kelley Armstrong for light, sexy paranormal stuff.

I read and mostly liked the first ten or so of Yarbro's St. Germain (and Olivia) books, but I got increasingly tired of them. It's sort of reassuring to know that the books got worse, not just that I got bored.

Interestingly, they're about the only vampire stories I can read at all. St. Germain's the good guy, and pretty non-threatening, so they don't give me nightmares like most vampires do.

Hmm. I'm trying to think what other vampire books might fit your criteria. What elements give you nightmares? Would a good guy who's still pretty creepy be a problem? Is gore an issue? What if some vampires are good guys and some bad?

gah. i just realised my typo: stoplights, not spotlights.

I'm so glad I'm not the only person who feels the need to bring a book to read while stopped at stoplights. :)

Of course, when the weather breaks I'll not be able to do that. I'm riding with Team Greykell in the MS ride.
Hopefully 100 miles in one day.

The whole idea of vampires completely creeps me out. Any hint of not-perfectly-goodness on the part of any vampires in the story would likely render it unreadable to me. (Tanya Huff's Blood series works for me, too, because Henry's another good guy.)

I did read Robin McKinley's Sunshine because I love her books. It wasn't a major problem because I very carefully picked it up first thing in the morning on a Saturday so I could finish it well by sundown. I treated Barbara Hambly's two vampire books the same way, with somewhat less success.

Beyond that, I don't expect to ever pick up another one. Which is killing me, because a young friend is working on what sounds like an excellent one, which I can't read. I just can't.

Amplectance. Mollescence. Does she use 'tumescence'? What about 'turgescence'?

Susan, I just received a thrilling email addressed to "Dear Costumer". A registered loan lender from Hong Kong is offering all kinds of Guarantee loans if one simply sends him ones financial particulars, presumably especially in the case of costumers. That's where I miss out. Perhaps it would suit you better than me.

(Not in the least apropos to this thread, but it seems to be where all the action is.)

Clifton:
Now, why don't I get such exciting email?

All my threads disintegrate rapidly into not-apropos-ness. Fine by me.

Serge:
She used esurience! Who needs all those t-words when you have esurience to cover the entire range of male arousal?

(Also, Saint-Germain is impotent, so tumescence would not apply in the most usual/obvious sense.)

(I feel like I ought to connect this to the Watchmen discussion in the other thread somehow.)

Susan... Who needs all those t-words

I can just see the ad on TV.

"Who needs turgescence when you can get esurience?"

I can just see the ad on TV.

"Who needs turgescence when you can get esurience?"

I have no interest in the product, but assuming it has been targetted fairly carefully, I definitely want to watch the show it's scheduled with.

There goes the sedate tea-sipping and genteel conversation.

Mary Aileen,
Lee Killough's trilogy might work for you. The main vampire character and a major secondary vampire character are a good guys, though they do confront bad-guy vampires. Unfortunately they just went out of print again in the disintegration of Meisha Merlin. Lee Killough's books are great and she just can't seem to catch a break on publishers. Her werewolf book is one of the most interesting I've read in its genre.

Apropos of vampires - Joss Whedon is speaking right down the road from me in a few weeks, on a night I'm actually home. Hmm.

Serge,
Yeah -- you get back, and there goes the neighborhood. We were all perfectly genteel while you were gone. :)

Susan, Thanks, but I'm not actually looking for recommendations. At this point, the only vampire story I'm interested in is my friend's. Which I don't expect I'll be able to read. (If the ALL the vampires in a given story aren't unequivocably good guys, I can't handle it. Which kind of misses the whole point of vampires, I know.)

Susan... you get back, and there goes the neighborhood

Humph.

Did I ever tell you about "Atomic Shakespeare", the episode of Moonlighting that spoofed The Taming of the Shrew? I liked the part where Bruce Willis as Petruchio knocks on the door to Cybill Sheperd's bedroom and says he's here to tune up her piano, and comments are then exchanged about pianist envy.

I am vaguely impressed that buy generic levitra almost follows on from Serge's joke. Almost.

Yeah, that's a better hit than most spam. Nonetheless, I shall delete it.

So I'm a spam magnet too now?

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