Catiana
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posted on 27/2/2003 at 03:27 PM |
*sigh* my apologies for not following the book posting rules, but i wanted
to get spanked
ANYWAYS i want to know if anyone else is stupid like me and read any anne
rice out of order? I read all the mayfair ones and only the first 2 vampire
and then i happened upon merrick and didnt know it ouwld ruin everything
for me. EGAD! what am i to do? must go play in traffic now. |
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PoeticChaos
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posted on 20/7/2003 at 09:50 AM |
Anne Rice is sort of blan to me. But then again, I'm only 77pages into
Vittorio and I really haven't read anything else. But the movie Queen of
the Damned was pretty good, though I heard that it is nothing like the book
and is more of a combination between The
Vampire Lestat and Queen of the Damned.
Anyhow, I have read some other vampire and fantasy authors and I believe
Amelia Atwater-Rhodes to be the best so far. She's written four books (In
the Forests of the Night, Demon In My View, Shattered Mirror, and Midnight
Predator) that have all been rather amazing in the twist of plots because
she only uses one or two characters from the preceding book in the new
storyline. She also wrote her first book when she was like fourteen and it
has a rather mature aura (if you can call it that) about it and she's just
gotten better with age.
I've also read some of the Dragonlance series and they were rather
interesting. The Deed of Paksenarrion *spelling?* is a twisted trilogy that
has a lot of military knowledge and battles in it; I think it was written
by Elizabeth Moon, but I have a feeling my memory is deceiving me. Tolkien
has always been one of my favorite authors and Moon pulls some of her
knowledge from his books. The last book and author I would like to suggest
is The Lost Years of Merlin, by T.A. Barron. |
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Nicholas
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posted on 19/7/2003 at 11:00 AM |
The body thief was pretty cool too ____________________ "Be neither a master nor a slave to pudding, for there is a time to gather,
and a time to cast pudding away" |
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Anya
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posted on 18/7/2003 at 08:24 PM |
All I have to say is I loved Memnoch the Devil. |
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MystryssRavynDarque
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posted on 18/7/2003 at 08:22 PM |
So, I read them out of order as well. I read the first two, then read "The
Tale of the Body Theif" and then I just finished the Queen of the Damned.
Doesn't really matter, because there is still the suspense. ____________________ "People always say what we are looking for is a meaning for life…I don't
think that's what we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is the
experience of being alive." -Joseph Campbell |
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KittyGoesMrow
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posted on 18/7/2003 at 03:22 PM |
Mmm I love her erotic novels... all the bondage and shtuff. mmmm. WHIP MEH
PLEASE! ____________________ Anata ga sabishii toki, bokumo sabishii n da yo |
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bettie_x
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posted on 6/3/2003 at 11:45 PM |
Eh, Kat, my momma never raised a quitter *snort*
I just can't do it right now (yeah yeah excuses and such...bah). I figure
when I no longer have to fight the urge to keep my car from flying over a
steep mountain side, I'll stop. Or when I no longer have to control my
"bad hand" disorder (you know, a "posessed hand"..one hand acts on it's own
and does bad things...it's an actual disorder, you know) I'll stop...you
know, when I don't wanna kill.
If ONLY I could develope pnemonia like my coworker and quit that way *sigh*
some girls have all the luck.
ANYWAY....
I have to agree that I didn't like the ending of "stranger/strange land" at
ALL..but overall it was a good book. Not top, but henlein isn't too
shabby.
I think my favorite dean koontz book is a tossup between "intensity" and
"ticktock"...tho I have to say, ticktock kept me up for DAYS because it had
a fucking posessed voodoo doll that hatched a fucking monster and shit
*SCREAM* and I have this thing with dolls....
Dean Koontz is a messed up man. I dig him.
Stephen King and Peter Straub's "black house" was SPECTACULAR...VERY hard
to get through the first oh...150 pages, but once you get past that point
it's VERY hard to put down. Creepy as shit, I tell you.
And "the coming global superstorm" by art bell and whitley streiber...I
liked the alternating chapters of scientific fact and historical
documentation with the fictional portrayal of events to come should things
follow the seemingly inevitable path laid out by nature and history.
To me the best anne rice book was Memnoch the Devil. But I repeat
myself...I thoroughly enjoyed that one...even with prissy pants in the
whole thing.
____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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Starlight
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posted on 6/3/2003 at 10:30 PM |
Yep it was a beauty (pun intended *G*)...plenty of spanking and sex to keep
you reading. ____________________ "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never
tried before." ~Mae West
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Closetgothbabe
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posted on 6/3/2003 at 03:55 PM |
The Anne Rice Sleeping Beauty trilogy was good......hehe |
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KatB
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posted on 6/3/2003 at 03:48 AM |
Cigarettes? Not quitting? ____________________ All stressed out and no one to choke...
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Merry_Widow
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posted on 6/3/2003 at 01:14 AM |
I liked Heinlein okay. I thought the end to Stranger was a little
dissapointing. Koontz on the other hand...I loved his book, Midnight. That
was just good stuff. I really like how a lot of his villians are really
nerdy little bastards. He's just an awesome writer. ____________________ Okay, dazzle me. |
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bettie_x
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posted on 6/3/2003 at 12:15 AM |
I think the only "goth" type thing I read at all are horror stories, and
most of the horror authors are well...rather nerdy. Nerdy guys have the
most messed up brains, I swear.
I like robert a. henlein (spelled?) "stranger in a strange land" and Dean
Koontz (MAN he musta been teased something AWFUL over his name *lol*) is
good readin friends. My husband buys me one when he sees I'm gettin close
to the end of the one I'm on...and I read rather fast, so you can imagine
my book collection! (the only other thing he griped at me about when we
moved, was moving my books. First in line was my shoes. I have too many
shoes. Or so he says..)
Books are an addiction, I swear, and who the fuck cares if it's "gothornot"
as long as you're enjoying what you read? To me there is nothing better
than a bathtub, a pack of cigarettes, a couple drinks and a book. That,
friends is HEAVEN. I've literally read in the tub so long that the water
went cold, and I had to half drain it and refill it. I looked like a 90
year old woman from the shoulders down. ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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Catiana
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posted on 5/3/2003 at 09:31 PM |
so many good thoughts here! I know its soooooo 'not goth' to be loving
anne rice. when will i learn? (hits own head with large object)
Anyways, i agree that there is too much description... i skip entire
paragraphs sometimes. but i have this urge.... this rice lust to find out
everything about all the different characters and the families to just keep
on reading!!
i havent read any poppy z brite or storm constantine but i will now!
thanks for the authors. all the best books i have read i got off "goth"
book lists. (even though most of them were far from gothic!) hmm hmm yes
yes well must go now |
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Schizo
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posted on 5/3/2003 at 04:30 AM |
I mean, mush! (I'm not awake yet!) ____________________ "You can tell by the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips and the
dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism" |
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Schizo
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posted on 5/3/2003 at 04:29 AM |
I've read a lot of those Lemony Snickett books! (what a delightful name!)
The roommate I lived with for a while that I was pregnant had most of the
series. I really enjoyed them.
But as for reading, I don't think I've picked up a book, just for reading,
in over a month. I'm serious. I get up, go to work, come home, entertain
the baby, put her to bed, and fall exhausted on my pillow. Not much room
in there for frivolous reading. I can feel my brain turning to much. ____________________ "You can tell by the scars on my arms and the cracks in my hips and the
dents in my car and the blisters on my lips that I'm not the carefullest
of
girls." - Dresden Dolls, "Girl Anachronism" |
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Anya
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posted on 4/3/2003 at 06:33 PM |
I liked Anne Rice and her writing style - don't get me wrong. However, I
also agree to the statement that a lot of her vampire novels are
predictable in the sense that they tend to be another vampire's point of
view of how things happened (again, only read up to Queen of the Damned) in
the past. *le sigh* Where can I find the -real- story based on all of the
vampire characters?
[Edited on 7/19/2003 by Anya] |
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bettie_x
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posted on 4/3/2003 at 09:06 AM |
Hey schitz, I dont' have a kid but I'm ALWAYS pressed for time, and one
good way to cram in reading between rushing are short horror story
compliations. If you wanna read Poppy Z (and I recommend you do!) "are you
loathsome tonight?" is a GOOD one to start with, and "wormwood" is right
there next to it.
And as for bedtime stories, Edward Gorey and Angus Oblong would be neato
Also, there is a new (to me) author out by the name of Lemmony Snicket and
his series of "children's books" are called "a series of unfortunate
events" featuring the Bouldaire children, and all the "unfortunate" and
bizarre things that happen to them. I have "the bad beginning" and "the
hostile hospital" (which is further down the series, but michael got it for
me for xmas as a joke ie: his scary trip to the hospital he'd had just
month or two before *lol*) and they are great. Meant for children, but
"grown up" enough for an adult to enjoy.
And hey, as for "classics"...they're called the "grim" bros. for a
REASON.
I haven't read any of anne rice's novels after I think "memnoch the devil"
(which is by far THE BEST anne rice novel I've read, not for love of her
prissy characters, but because it's fascinating in repsect to religion). I
sort of lost interest after that one. I've also read the mayfair witches
series, and they weren't bad, but her age old theme of constant burgeoning
homosexuality and incest in every single character is well...getting
booring.
Poppy NEVER get's booring
I've actually thought several times of getting into the children's books
franchise...but then after letting my nephew watch evil dead II (his mother
let him watch HANNIBAL for cryin out loud! I thought it'd be NOTHING to
him, and he WANTED to see a scary movie!)and having to spend an hour
convincing him that I'm NOT the scary lady that got her head cut off in the
movie, lead me to believe that perhaps it's NOT the best line of work for
me *LOL*
Then again, could I REALLY mess up america's children more than they
already are? ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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Dolorosa
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posted on 3/3/2003 at 11:19 AM |
Wait...didn't Kurt Cobain kill Kurt Cobain? Thats gotta' be a pretty short
book...heh heh...ha! I kill me!
Personally I think cereal is goth as fuck...
I remember Nightbreed, that movie was fun as hell...I just to pretend I
was a critter from one of the Tribes of the Moon and hunt down the kids
that lived next door to me...
Back to vampir novels though...call me a roleplaying dork, but I find that
White Wolf has pushed out a lot of novels that are really quite
good...based on their Vampire the Masquerade storyline, one in particular
that makes no attempts at covering itself up as anything other than a
vampiric high-end smut was a hell of a lot of fun...I think I gave that
book to Merry...I kinda' hope it gave her ideas and I kinda' hope not,
'cause some of that stuff was whack yo'
My image of a vampire has always been something of a cross between tragic,
beautiful cursed human, and rampaging undead monster from hell...I mean,
the angsty romantic stuff is cool yeah...but shit, they feed on human blood
for crying out loud...as sultry and sexy it is for a vamp to seduce and
coerce it's prey...don't you think they'd just get bored of that after
awhile and just reach out, grab some poor fool and crack him like a beer? I
would...god knows I would...mm...beer... ____________________ In the valley of the Goats, the Goat Fucker is King |
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KatB
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posted on 3/3/2003 at 05:29 AM |
Heck if I know, unless you mean "Nightbreed", and that is based upon Clive
Barker's "Cabal"... ____________________ All stressed out and no one to choke...
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Lenore
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posted on 3/3/2003 at 05:17 AM |
quote: Wraethu is a book I can't
say enough good things about, it has a kind of... I dunno, mix between
cyber-futuristic and fantasy-angle on a new breed ('vampires') that
develops after men have fucked the world up completely - harsh and lovely,
sophisticated and brutish, and rather weirdly erotic... And a rather
suprising twist to the whole gender-situation - I expect Sticupus would
feel very at home in this setting
But again - each to their own!
Pardon my ignorance, but has the movie "The Breed" anything to do with this
setting? Just curious... ____________________ "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate its contents." - H.P.Lovecraft |
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