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| Wow, has it ever been a long time since I've blogged. >.< I feel bad but at the same time I don't. XD I've never been one to blog a bunch but I thought I'd give it a try. ^^ I've found some interesting things I'd like to share with you. I've read Breaking Dawn but you know, I love Stephenie Meyer and all, I just don't agree when she described how Edward was able to father children. I've come across some pretty convincing arguments for this and I thought I'd share.
http://twilightsucks.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=twilight&action=display&thread=638
The other thing I really don't like is that Breaking Dawn is kind of a bad example for young teenage girls. I mean, when Stephenie Meyer wrote this, she had to be thinking of all the girls, young and old, that were going to be reading this. When I went to the midnight release for the book, there were 9 year old girls there. I don't agree at all that girls that young should be reading about an 18 year old girl having sex, getting pregnant, her being okay with it, and then when Edward hurts her during sex, Bella is begging for more. Ugh, it just bothers me. Now, we'll probably see a lot more teenage pregnancies going on. My younger sister loves this series and I was trying to convince my mom to NOT let her read the last book till she was a bit older. Yeah cool, my sister is reading, and its good that other people are reading too but, fuck, no. This is just a bad example. I don't like it and I never will. Parents do NOT need to have the sex talk with their children at 9. It's utter fucking ridiculous.
The link below is with someone I totally agree with. The first answer, this person takes the words right from my mouth.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080812202745AA65zf5
Hmmmm, more Anita Blake hatred time. I found out that the series is going to become a TV show. So, we're going to be seeing porn later on? Anita Blake is fucking disgusting. I loved the books up till number 8, then they just fucking died after that. Laurell K Hamilton just needs to stop. It's become porn and not very interesting either. Anita Blake is basically a heroin who has no weeknesses. It's such bullshit. Then, there is the fact that every guy that passes by or comes in contact with her, falls in love with her. She's not that great. She's a slut bag who fucks every guy she comes across in the story. I really just want the Anita Blake series to leave the Science Fiction section in the book stories and go to erotica. That's basically all it is. There is one book where all it is, is Anita plus others, in a hotel room having orgies. Yeah, cool. Whatever.
"I think the sex is a little overdone, I know what Anita is but
it is time to tell her story without turning it into a porn movie.
I adore Anita Blake and will never stop reading the books but I tend to gloss over all the sex as after a while it just gets boring!!!"
"i’ve read 15 of her books and loved them and lately they have gone down hill, it really sucks. way too much sex and she tries to keep her high morals when she OBVIOUSLY threw them out the window when she became that incubus thing. now it’s not an attack on L.K.H because i really found a lot of happiness reading the books but it seemed as though she ran with what publishers wanted rather than what the readers like, now hey i’m not one to say a sex scene is bad because at the right time in a book it’s great but the first four chapters of her newest book was a sex scene. basically please go back to the old ways! break up with some of the guys,don’t really need micah, find jason a lover(havent finished the new one so he might have one)BRING BACK EDWARD! Have something kewl happen like jean claude gives his life for anita and richard and says be together and sheilds them from dying idk nathanial is kewl but Anita has become boring and snooty. you can’t be sleeping with 6 guys and have morals, sorry. Asher is good too keep the basics lose the rest. where the heck is Cherry and Damian? Ronnie simms is gone along wtih richards best friend. go back to the wolf pack more, they were interesting. give Anita a birthday because well 15 books and she hasnt had one. what happend to her solving crimes? or raising the dead? hmm….helping people? please don’t see it as an attack just know that changing isn’t always a good thing"
I thought those were awesome to get how much hatred out of the Anita Blake series. I really just hate those books. There is no more plot line, there is just sex. It's a fuck fest. Laurell K Hamilton, go fucking kill yourself while masturbating.
Well, I think thats all I have to say this week. ^^
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| Yes, as you may tell now, I really hate these books. I can't stand hearing about them. >< Venting my anger... by reading reviews on the books. XD Here are a couple I had to laugh with and about.
E.Z Solinas:
"Imagine the horribly malformed love-child of "Days Of Our Lives," Anne Rice and some really bad Mary Sue fan fiction.
That is the most accurate description I can think of for "Blood Noir," the fifteenth novel in the Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series. Since it's a rather lame little novella pumped up to novel size, Laurell K. Hamilton spins up artificial drama and endless sexual angst that never really goes anywhere or does anything, but fills up plenty of pages. By the end, you'll be wondering what the point is.
Werewolf stripper Jason drops by Anita's house to whine that his estranged dad is dying, and he's broken up with his girlfriend because she wanted monogamy. Three guesses which is considered more traumatic -- monogamy or cancer.
So Anita comforts him the only way she knows how, and then agrees to pose as his girlfriend so he can prove to his dad that he isn't gay. Apparently his family is more worried about his sexuality than about his being a werewolf. But when they arrive, Anita finds that Jason is one of several look-alike men in his hometown, and one of them is a wealthy engaged stud who is having an affair with the wife of a local Master vampire. This, needless to say, stokes up lots of bad feelings.
It also causes a few personal crises, as Anita finds out that weird tabloid rumors in St. Louis are jeopardizing Jean-Claude's position, and local vampires are gunning for Jason because he looks just like his cousin. Unfortunately this is only the start of her problems, since the ancient vampire matriarch Mother of All Darkness is waking up -- or I should say, STILL waking up after several books -- and causing yet more trouble for Anita.
For your information, "Blood Noir" was originally a novella. But while the page-count has expanded to that of a full-length novel, Laurell K. Hamilton fails to expand the story along with it -- it still has a novella-sized plot, which appears to have been cribbed from the wastepaper basket of a hack TV writer. We've got lookalikes, confusion, family drama, and embarrassing headlines. Even the name of Jason's cousin -- Keith Summerland -- sounds lifted from a soap.
And Hamilton is pretty clearly making it up as she goes along, throwing in plot twists and contrived crises whenever the slow-moving plot starts lagging. Unfortunately she doesn't actually deal with the fallout of these twists -- most of them just putter out and never really get dealt with. Presumably Hamilton either got tired of writing and wanted to wrap up the book, or she didn't want to write any dramatic scenes that don't involve lots of orgasms, bodily fluids and Anita.
While there isn't as much plotless sex as in some of Hamilton's other books, sex is still the sole driving force of "Blood Noir." Breakups, personal crises, metaphysical problems and threats are all handled by Anita's sex'n'powers combo -- and even in the sex-free portions of the book, the characters' sex lives are what propel things onward.
And sadly, those people's sex lives are more ludicrously silly than genuinely sexy. Anita has inexplicably become a tabloid celebrity more famous than A-list starlets, and Keith's fiancee is only able to identify Jason by staring at his penis. I wish I had made this up, but I couldn't.
Anita continues to be a standard Mary Sue self-insert -- she's abrasive as a power sander, smart as a cinder block, adored and feared by all around her, and develops a new supernatural power every time she sneezes. Comically enough, her sex life is apparently the stuff of national interest now, despite the fact that she basically doesn't do anything to warrant anyone's interest except collect vampires and werebeasties for her expansive harem.
Thankfully that harem is rarely glimpsed in this book, and it's soon obvious why this is a good thing. The supposedly suave Jean-Claude has become needy and clingy, the appallingly creepy Nathaniel acts like a pimp, and Jason has been transformed into a self-absorbed slut who treats non-Anita women like sex toys. And Hamilton takes yet another pot-shot at Richard, dragging him into the plot just so Anita can remind us why we are supposed to hate him. Doesn't work.
"Blood Noir" is neither noir nor bloody, and the thin plot is stretched to the breaking point with lots of bad sex, whining, and plot twists that stupefy rather than shock. Truly ghastly -- and not the good way either."
AJ
"This book is terrible. I mean, truly terrible. It's unoriginal at best, a waste of paper at its most truthful. I may have some spoilers in here, so be warned.
In this particular offering, Anita's "friend" Jason needs her to pose as his girlfriend to visit his dying father so that his "ultra-conservative, white-bread" family won't continue to think that Jason is gay. Jason gets kidnapped due to a sadly predictable plot twist and big bad Anita saves the day. If it sounds like a poorly written soap opera, it gets worse. I won't spoil it for you. In sum, "Noire" is more of the same drivel I've come to expect from Hamilton. Yes, there is less sex. Not much less, though, and the sex hasn't been replaced with plot. Scenes are stretched to their breaking point and beyond, pointless conversations abound, and the sex is thrown in when there is a lull in plot progression. There is very little action. I've been told that this novel was a novella first, and that does explain some of its problems, but certainly not all. This book has the same problems that all but the first 4 Anita books have. Characters are unbelievable, unorginal, and for the most part, 2 dimentional. Anita herself utterly destroys any suspension of disbelief that Hamilton can muster. Anita is a pure example of "Mary Sue-ism" or "Snappy Sue-ism". For an explaination of what I mean, go to http://www.kitwhitfield.com/2006/09/mary-sue-gets-mean.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue . Anyone who has read any of Hamilton's books will find these articles to ring sadly true for Anita. Anita is a necromancer, a vampire slayer, a Federal marshall, a Lupa, a Bolverk, a living succubus with her own animal(s) to call and a "triumverate" (a stupid, stupid word) of power, a human servant, a Nimir-raj, and in "Noire", she adds little queen of the were-tigers to the already downright silly list. She is also in a polyamorous relationship with multiple men who are not allowed to be with anyone but her, has sex with them all day long, and still can walk upright enough to do all the occupations listed. Any attractive man that Anita comes across wants, needs, falls madly in love with her and becomes her slave, and all women envy her. Most of the men are strippers. Though each of Anita's men is a supernatural (and very well-endowed) powerhouse, Anita is stronger than all of them combined, and must protect them like a nest of newborn bunnies from all the big bad that inexplicably surrounds Anita. Personal fantasy much? You be the judge.
There is little plot to be had in the Anita Blake series, and what plot there is has been ripped from the pages of other books or White Wolf and Dungeons and Dragons games. The majority of the book is taken up by poorly written sex and useless dialog about sex and/or how wonderful/powerful Anita is. Hamilton once wrote a response to her critics, in which she says that one shouldn't read her books if they didn't want to think, or if they wanted comfort, or didn't want to push the envelope. I find this to be a ridiculous expression of Hamilton's overblown ego. Never have I found the Anita Blake novels thought provoking in any way. (Other than the obvious "Why did I buy this" question I pose to myself over and over) These books are at best fluff. Mindless entertainment.
Anne Rice's earlier vampire novels made me think. They caused me to feel something, to question myself and my beliefs about good and evil. Anne Rice's vampire novels also pushed the envelope. Her "Interview with the Vampire" was the first book to show vampires as more (and less) than monsters, as feeling, thinking beings. Hamilton tries far too hard to push the envelope. She does so by throwing in kinky sex (also done by Anne Rice and Poppy Z. Brite, a very good if not well known horror writer), a poorly researched and horribly depicted version of BDSM (which was also done, and I think, very well by Anne Rice in her "Sleeping Beauty" series), and hints at homosexuality. (Again done first by Anne Rice and then to death by other writers). Though she hints at or throws these things into the mix, none of them are done believably or well. Most of her male leads are gay or bisexual, but all of them want Anita and they are never allowed to have sexual contact with one another, as per Anita's rule. Hamilton rails against monogamy in the novels, but only for Anita. All of her lovers must be monogamous with her, or be refused in bed. This even applies to Jean-Claude, her "master" an incubus who uses sex to feed and from whom Anita got her own "ardure". It rings more than fake, it is utterly ridiculous and cruel. It is hinted at in "Noire" that Anita may deign to allow two of her men to make love, but I will be truly suprized if this happens, or if it does, if it gets more than a paragraph. Hamilton's BDSM is a horror. The BDSM scenes are silly, over the top, or in the case of "Noire", very vanilla and boring.It is written from the view of a vanilla, Mid-Western, suppressed mindset. For all of Hamilton's constant lectures on how open-minded and left-wing she is, the way she writes causes me to believe the exact opposite. In the series, anyone who likes BDSM was abused as a child and either likes to be horribly injured or completely dominated in every aspect of their lives. There is no safe word, no trust, no love. There is only Anita doing whatever she wants to whomever she wants, whenever she wants to do it.
The BDSM reads more like an excuse for characters to allow Anita to walk all over them than a believable plot device. Just like the "ardure" is an excuse for Anita to have non consensual sex with everyone and anyone. If the genders were reversed, and Anita was a man with a harem of women, how well received would these books be? Why is rape ok when it happens to men? Of course, in the novels, none of the men mind afterward because they fall predictably and unbelievably in love with Anita. I find the books to be one giant comfortfest for Anita, and for the writer. Anita's ego is constantly stroked and enlarged by all other characters. If for any reason a character does not believe that the sun does not rise and set on Anita's command, he or she is belittled, reviled, or done away with. All of the male characters (with the exception of Nathaniel) are "powerful men", yet they constantly need Anita to save them. Jean-Claude and Richard got kidnapped, Richard's family got kidnapped, Micah was being threatened, Nathaniel was kidnapped and in "Noire", yet another "strong" man will be kidnapped. Who saves them all? Anita. Believable? No. Comforting and ego enlarging? Yes. Jean-Claude and Richard become more and more whiny, needy, and dependent upon Anita as the books progress, leading me to believe that the author mocking them up to be strong men was for the sole benefit of making Anita look even stronger when she breaks them to her will. There are also very few female characters in the novels so that Anita has no competition. Those that are there are either weaklings whom Anita must kick around and protect,they are jealous bitches who hate Anita because all the men love her so, or they are lesbians who want to have sex with Anita.
Anita seems to be heavily based on Hamilton herself, and the whole series reads like a lonely woman's slightly dark sex fantasy. Almost everything in Anita's background was taken directly from Hamilton's life. I'm not saying that it's wrong for an author to do that, but it ceases to be fiction at some point.
I haven't even bothered to go over all of the inconsistencies in plot, character description, or spelling errors left in Hamilton's finished works. She seriously needs to proof-read and remember what she's written before. If Hamilton can't remember what has happened in previous books, how can she expect the rest of us to? Or to even bother?
I know that most of Hamilton's oldest fans (myself included) want "the old Anita" back. This isn't going to happen. Ever. Hamilton has discovered that she can write an entire book about nothing but sex and how wonderful her main character is and make millions. Why would she ever go back? Research is difficult and time consuming. Plots take time, thought, and originality to come up with. Why not just jot down her own fantasies and cash in? I really think that the only people who still buy these books are A.teenage Goths and bored housewives who get their jollies off the icky were-monster sex, B. die hard fans, or those who had the books recommended to them by A or B. At this point, my expectations are so low that I wouldn't mind the books if all they were was interesting sex, but Hamilton can't even manage that. Don't buy this book. If you must read it, borrow it from the library or read it in the bookstore. If no one buys this crap, maybe, just maybe Hamilton will understand what she's done to what was a promising series and became less that a Mary-Sued Buffy the Vampire slayer fanfic."
A.Pang.
"I'm only 13 chapters into it thus far, but this is probably one of the worst things I've read in a long time. I'm actually pretty tempted to return it without finishing and I've *never* done that before.
The first four chapters are nothing more than an extremely poorly written sex scene between Jason, Nathaniel and Anita - sentence structure is lousy, the sex is boring and I think it's becoming increasingly clear that LKH really knows nothing about the BDSM scene. At one point, Anita actually says her safe word...and Nathaniel *ignores* it. And that's ok?? It's not even close to 'ok'. It's dangerous and it's stupid. I'm not even a follower of the BDSM lifestyle, but even I know that much.
I can't buy the premise very well either. Jason's dad is sick and dying of cancer...ok. He needs to bring a girl friend home to prove he's not gay? Uh...ok. He looks *just* like his complete asshat of a cousin to the point that the media won't leave him alone and no one believes he's not his cousin? Not so much.
The dialogue is also pretty lousy. Jason's lines make him out to be a begging puppy, at least as far as Anita is concerned. It's embarrassing and not much of a turn on. I also find it odd that as soon as it's decided that Jason's going to take Anita home with him, all the other men start getting bitchy. "Wait...I've never met *your* family." *sob* "I'm 400 years old, my family is dead...I've never even brought them up in the last 15 books, but oh! You'll never get to meet them now...blah blah tragic fishcakes..."
Pet peeves: LKH has a tendency to overuse certain words and phrases quite a bit in her books. Thus far it's the word "breathy". *shudders*
*ahem*
That's all I have so far...when I finish, I'm sure I'll come back and add something. Strangely ironic that the cover has a pair of scissors on it...'cause that's probably what you'll want to take to this book when you read it. (Or your eye sockets, whichever is handier)"
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I have to say, the more reviews I read, the happier my day went on. ^^ Though, I mainly saw all 1 stars, and most people were giving their reviews titles like: "Was this even a book?", "If only I could give it 1 star", "Lamest Book Ever", "I want my money back"
Maybe the reason Laurell keeps getting people commenting on her forum or what not about how bad it is, is because they really are bad. Laurell, if it wasn't a big deal to you, why did you write a huge blog trying to explain it? What bull shit.
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| Well I went to the opening movie last night and I have to say, wow. Not only was this one of the freakiest things I've seen all month, but I didn't want to be alone after that. My friend and I couldn't help but close our eyes or pull our sweatshirts over our eyes. I have to say though, the dead bodies isn't what freaked me out the most. It was the part where Jonah is in the middle of a seance and he like puked up ectoplasm. That image will forever stick with me.
I know I shouldn't have seen this movie but I felt like, hey, this looks freaky, I should scare myself shitless. That's exactly what happened. I found it hard to sleep last night, due to the fact that I kept seeing all the images of the movie flash through my head.
This last Thursday and Friday I started writing the fourth chapter in The Seven Deadly Sins Series Lust. I'm about to post it but I'm still really surprised that I even finished it. I have been procrastinating on that story for a long while, but during my German class I finally thought about how I wanted to finish it.
Last week was just a complete wreck concerning my computer. I had just gotten rid a bad spywear problem and that included re-doing my entire computer. I have back up of my files but it just shocked me that I had to even resort to that. Then just a five days after fixing the problem and restoring my files, I turn on my computer, looked in my folder, and saw that nothing was there. I ended up losing half my mp3's, about 100 pictures or so, and then a couple story files. I'm not sure how that happened or even why it happened, I'm just glad I had uploaded my new layout onto my server before that happened otherwise I would have just said screw it. I really love my new layout and I worked hard on it. As you may know, I do my web design, writing, my job, my classes, my sports, and my coaching. I have a very busy life at the moment.
I can't say that I'm excited about the new upcoming Twilight movie. The fact that the first one sucked balls was terrible. They either need to get rid of the horrible actors, change the script so it isn't corny at all, or not make the movie at all. Who can honestly tell me of a good book that turned out to be a fabulous movie? There are none. At all. It's sad really, to ruin such a good series, but I guess if thats how its going to be, who can change it. Personally I think that everyone is dumb for thinking that its a remotely good movie. I'm just really bummed that they made Twilight so horrible.
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| I know I sent this out to everyone, but I thought it might be a good idea to put it out here since my site is down.
I've become aware that many of you are on the edge of your seat waiting for new chapters to come out for all the stories. That's great, because to me, that means I'm doing a good job at writing. I love getting emails from people asking me about the next chapter and such and such. I'm also sorry to hear that a couple people are leaving because my stories are "unfinished". I'd like to clear a couple things up.
First, my stories are not unfinished. I have to balance writing into my busy life as it is and from what I've been through, it's hard as hell. My stories are something I love writing and I love creating, no doubt, but I can't just sit down everyday for 16 hours and write non-stop. Although, that would be amazing, I just simply can't do it. I'm sorry if this disappoints you but it's the truth. I don't have an author career as I'd like so I do have to support myself somehow. I hope you can understand to an extent.
Second, many of my stories are on hold because I've got a very high demand for the Serene Series to be finished. Yes, that means that The Seven Deadly Sins, The Goth, The Slayer, and The Slaughter Series are all on hold. Why do I have so many stories? Because all of my insane ideas cannot possibly be put into just one story. Plain and Simple.
I hope you can understand and if you ever feel the need to stop reading my stories, I'm sorry. I won't force you to stay but I'd appreciate it if you could be patient. Thanks to everyone who is willing to stay on board.
For those of you who are emailing me asking about new chapters, I haven't updated any stories as of yet, but I'm trying hard to. I've completed two short stories recently and I'm putting them up on my site and on buzzle when the new layout is switched from the old one. Hopefully that's soon. I'll send you an email when my site is back up.
I do have Affies who are dying for you to look at their site. Just go to my main page and check out the first 2 for sure! Thanks a lot! They'll appreciate it as well as I. If you're interested in putting up a link of your site onto mine, email me back with your link and (if you have one) a banner.
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| I use to be a huge fan of the Anita Blake series, in fact, I got almost all of my best friends hooked on the series as well. Though, ever since book number 8: Blue Moon, it's gone sooooo far downhill from there. I use to enjoy reading about the old Anita Blake, you know the one who bad ass, guns blazing, vampire-hunting chick to ummmmm, whore/skank/porn star/slut. Now it's like all the books are about is sex and there is no plot anymore. One of my friends in particular, who won't be named, insists that Anita Blake has much more depth and that the series keeps getting better and better!
Now, I know for sure that my friend isn't a sex fiend and she isn't an idiot, but goodness, each time she talks about the book, no offence, but I can't help cringe. There is no depth or plot anymore. It's all sex-based. Don't believe me? Well then you're the fool. From the book: Blood Noir, you don't even get twelve pages into the book before she's having a three-some with Jason and Nathaniel. It's a bit boring and dull after a while. You tend to find yourself skipping pages and wanting more plot then sex-spam, sex-spam, sex-spam, sex-spam, dialogue, sex-spam, sex-spam, sex-spam, and then some finishing dialogue. *YAWN*
The reason, along with all of my friends, except for the one I mentioned before hand, has quit reading this bore-some, empty, lifeless, stale series.We agree that there is way too much sex and no action, like before in the earlier books.
Want to bet that Anita will sleep with Edward's step son once he turns 18?
I do also think that Laurell K Hamilton won't give us the old Anita Blake bad, which is sad. I do hope she sees a dramatic drop in sales from her books so she'll start getting some new ideas, or better yet, STOP WRITING DUMB BOOKS ABOUT ANITA BEING A SLUT!
Oops, did I say that outloud?
If Laurell ever got the idea to spice up the series again, Anita should get some competition, instead of EVERYONE falling in love with her. *rolls eyes* It's getting very tiresome to have just about every man, woman, vampire, werewolf fall dead in love with her. BORING.
Laurell is slowing driving away her fans by creating more dumb sex scenes. Either write a new series with more plot or just burn in hell. Anita Blake officially sucks.
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