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[pyrephox]

I am getting impatient with the computer. It happens, generally about once every six months. There's a relatively minor trigger event, and then I just don't want anything to do with it for a week or two. This time, unlike in the past, I'm in several games (not to mention the work for H^3), so it's more difficult to just walk away for a while, like I usually do. Added to other Stuff, it makes me impatient, grumpy, and bored. Hence the 'bleh' in my previous post.

I've been playing around with my tarot deck again, after a long, long hiatus. I think I'd like to study up on cold-reading again, maybe put myself back into the swing of things. It's a fun hobby, especially once you get a good enough grasp of body language, patter, and showmanship to make it mildly impressive. I've never gotten beyond mildly impressive; I never can manage to quite project the air of taking it all that seriously. I may go and pick up a book or two on it when I go back to the library.

Speaking of, I finished 'Cerulean Sins', and I sigh. There were some /really/ /nifty/ subplots in there, but they were almost completely ignored for the hawt suupernatuural sexx0rz. And that's just sad, because Hamilton /is/ a good writer. Hell, I even enjoy her sex scenes. But it's not what drew me to the Anita Blake books, and I'd really like her to go back to the mysteries.

I'll probably start on 'Altered Carbon' tonight. It's the last of the rented library books (For solaas, 'Ring' is /really/ bizarre, and has some very interesting elaborations from the movie.) and promises to be rather interesting. Hard-core cyberpunk detective novel. I'm a sucker for that blend. Or, for that matter, fantasy/detective blend. Or just detective novels. I like puzzles.

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Considering that the latest Fae book, "Seduced by Moonlight," had all of maybe 3 sex scenes in it -- I think she may be getting back to a concept of PLOT.

(She is kind of hampered in the Anitaverse, though -- I mean, if your enemy is Andrealphus a succubus-vampire, then you're going to be attacked by... Dark Desire! Er, SEX! This is a logical consequence of setting up a few justifications for hawt sexxors earlier on, and therefore perfectly plausible.)

Ve Zhall Zee. I think she may go to politics with mysteries as a sideline, but I'm kinda liking the politics, too.

[pyrephox.livejournal.com]

I'll have to pick up 'Seduced by Moonlight', then.

Eh. I think she could have (and should have) made the /sex/ a subplot, and the others the main plot. There are increasingly few males of supernatural power in the city that Anita hasn't boinked, and that's just silly. I really preferred in the earlier books, where she was more concentrated on helping people, than on trying to refrain from pouncing the Male of The Day.

I'd like the politics more if it wasn't drowned in the sex. For instance, I'd love to know more about the pard...to /see/ Anita trying to deal with rehabilitating them, learning more about the culture, even the difficulties in blending the old pard and the new pard. Instead, we get references to it, but never see it. I'm just frustrated with seeing all this Really Neat Stuff talked about offstage, while onstage, we just get more boinking.

[archangelbeth]

I think there will get to be more plot... (Actually, I think what happened is she realized Sex Sells. She wrote more Sex. Now she wants to do plot again and she has to dig out of the stuff she wrote previously. I am betting this is a series that is plotted maaaaaybe one book at a time ahead, so mostly she's having to ad-lib author. Sort of like ad-lib GMing...)

Hm. Could always write to her that you'd love to see more about the pard dynamics?

But yeah. Only about 3 sex scenes in the other. A whole LOT of Elf Prettyboi descriptions. Acres and acres of fae. But only about 3 sex scenes.