Justin G
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I don't know about that. By the time I discovered Barker in the mid '90s he had already passed his prime.
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I don't know about that. By the time I discovered Barker in the mid '90s he had already passed his prime.
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Very safe in terms of plot. What I enjoy is the character banter between the two leads.
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I remember getting a copy of Books of Blood 2 when it first came out. My first true experience with loving and loathing something at the same time.
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not reading them in order
just grabbed the Sookie Stackhouse book that was on the CVS bookshelf
just got reprinted with new cover
i think they might be just re-printing the old ones when each new one gets published
don't need to read them in order because i've seen most of the episodes of True Blood
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yes the movie does appear as if it's going to be crap
this video is freaking hilarious....
.....although i do also enjoy the "it gets better" videos that it's making fun of
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anyone else reading Anita Blake series???
it's about a short woman that kills tall vampires
it's awesome
it's about a short woman that kills tall vampires
it's awesome
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BECAUSE FALCONER
It stops being quite so awesome. Trust me.
After Obsidian Butterfly, it stops having any real content, and becomes porn. But you can see it coming from about Bloody Bones. Possibly even sooner than that. But after Obsidian Butterfly, you can just stop reading if you're hoping for any kind of real story.
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I stopped after book one. It was just too heavy on the romance for my tastes.
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The last two or three she has finally gotten back to telling a story. But yes, the middle books are just straight up pr0n. "Hit List" with Edward was pretty good.
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i swear i'm not trying to be a troll here
but i actually love the ones that are porn
Laurell K Hamilton does porn really really well
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I'm probably going to regret it, but...
Damn....first person style.
Nothing sucks the suck out of suck like first person.
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when a novel is done in the first person, it's to try to get the reader to sympathize with the protagonist, the reader feels bad when the narrator feels sad, the reader feels pissed off at the people that victimize the narrator, and the reader cries tears of joy when something good happens to the narrator,
being written in the first person with the reader befriending the narrator is responsible for Hunger Games Trilogy, The Twilight Saga, Vampire Diaries, Anne Rice's Vampire Series, Anita Blake series, Alex Cross novels and the Sookie Stackhouse books becoming Bestsellers
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After reading 1-2 novels/week over the past 30 years, I think I have a handle on what it is. Citing Herman Melville instead of referencing Sookie wouldn't make a difference. It doesn't matter if the narrator is Shakespeare himself. Seeing the word "I" a gazillion times grates on my nerves much like sandpaper on my ass.
It is also hard to do first person well in a book, since you are restricted to the one character's viewpoint and there are various writing techniques you can't really use because of it.
It is one of the criticisms I've read about "The Hunger Games", for example.
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