Break out the cigars and the blue baby rattles...

[sarea]

Here's some interesting news... Not really that surprising, but JKR has confirmed that Blaise Zabini is a boy! Thanks to akscully for the link. Sometimes she has her uses.

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So, the Anita Blake books. Last night I finished The Laughing Corpse and started Circus of the Damned. What keeps me going isn't the plot of these novels, because even though they start out pretty good, the delivery and often the resolution isn't all that impressive. However, I was dying to know whether or not Anita would allow Jean-Claude to make her his human servant, particularly light of the fact that she's now met this hottie that she's attracted to (I thought he was kind of hot until we discovered his name was Richard -- so not a hot name). JC is super smoking hot, possibly because he's dangerous and eVIL, and yet is so clearly into Anita.

I tend to picture Eliza Dushku as Anita, because the physical description matches (except for the height, though I'm not sure ED is all that tall either...), plus Anita is all tough and shit, like Faith (who is, of course, also a vampire slayer). JC has his own 'look' in my mind, though I could picture Stuart Townsend in the role. Anyway, so I skimmed through the rest of CotD (trying not to read too many details), and then read all the backcovers of the other books, and even skimmed some of the future books. I'M SO DEPRESSED NOW. Not because I've spoiled myself rotten (I'm kind of glad about that, so that I can deal with Anita's love interests outside of JC better), but because it's going to take SO LONG for Anita and JC to get together, and even when it happens it's going to be all edgy and realistic, rather than t00by the way I want it (and frankly, the way it was in TLC). SIGH.

I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the series, though seriously -- LKH needs a new editor or publisher or something. I have found simple typos and shit in every single book so far.

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I'm a giant t00b, but this picture makes me all happy. I love what Samantha's wearing. Normally I like Carrie and Charlotte's clothes (though when Carrie makes horrendous choices, no), but I love casual!Samantha. For those of you who might be interested, Sex and the City is going into syndication on TBS starting June 22.

Comments

[akscully.livejournal.com]

I have plenty of uses.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

I mean outside of kissing bus drivers.

[akscully.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, if you're going to be picky...

[fearthainn.livejournal.com]

I'm actually re-reading the Anita Blake books 'cause you mentioned them a while back, and remembering why I have a love/hate relationship with them. On the one hand, fun supernatural noir romp and on the other...well. As the series progresses the tone of the books changes quite a bit. I won't go into more detail 'cause I'd have to spoil, but the books focus a lot less on plot and more on...other stuff.

[sarea-okelani.livejournal.com]

I think I know what you mean. I was naughty and looked through a few of the later books, including Cerulean Sins and Obsidian Butterfly. It boggles me that Anita goes from being the way she is in the first two books (totally anti getting involved with Jean-Claude and compromising her ideals, etc.) to getting so involved w/ Richard enough that by book 5 or whatever he's her ex-fiancee and then she's taking JC for a lover. WTF? Not having read the books, of course, I'm like -- Whoa, did she turn into a completely different character?? I'm hoping that in context, the development will feel a lot more natural.

The later novels seem a lot more relationship and character focused, though not really in a good way, from the taste I got. (Again, am hoping that by the time I get to them for real, it'll feel a lot more 'natural.') From what I saw, it started to feel a lot like fanfic, what with all the drama and the changing love interests and threesomes and what not. Just from what I skimmed, I learned that in addition to JC and Richard, there's also Nathaniel (is that his name?) and Asher and someone named Micah, who I'm less clear on. And the most boggling part is that they're all creatures! I find this kind of a turn off, because I think what I find most compelling about Anita and her relationship with Jean-Claude is that he is everything she shouldn't want/love, but can't help herself. But if she's openly having relationships with werewolves and other vampires and such, it really takes away from that. Well, that's what bothers me, anyway. <g>

I probably don't know what the hell I'm talking about. I only know just enough to be dangerous. :D

[fearthainn.livejournal.com]

You're not wrong about the love interest drama...it gets more crazy as the series develops. (I don't know if you'd consider this a spoiler, but you're not wrong about the fanfic thing either. =\ ) A lot of what I enjoyed about the books, which was the crime-solving and vampire hunting and such, gets left by the wayside in favour of who's doing whom in later volumes. My biggest complaint is that a lot of stuff I would consider interesting happens "off-screen". So at the end of one book, she's off to do whatever, and at the start of the next book, the whatever is all done and you get the slightly-more-improved Anita without seeing what got her there. This happens all through the series, and it doesn't get any less annoying. ;)

Obsidian Butterfly is probably the best of her later books, actually. Mostly because it is less about "Anita and Her Amazing Complicated Love Life" and more about an actual case, with an actual plot and everything. And zombie-raising and vampire-killing to boot. Plus with Edward! I like Edward. :)

[indigochild76.livejournal.com]

Oooh... I haven't read the Anita Blake Vampire books... but they do indeed sound interesting! Right now I'm in the process of reading the teen vampire series Cirque Du Freak, which is rather good if I don't say so myself. :-)

Anyway, thank you thank you for sharing that lovely info concerning Blaise Zabini! I always knew that he had to be a boy... it just seemed weird to me to make him a girl! Not sure why... just a gut thing. As a result, I always wrote him as a boy and had difficulties reading stories where he was a girl (unless the story totally rocked... and believe you me there definitely are some of those). However, I must say that I'm terribly glad to finally have actual confirmation though... always listen to the gut! LOL! :-)

*hugs*

[ropo.livejournal.com]

I cannot recommend that anyone watch Sex & the City (at least not for the first time) on TBS. I mean, where will the good parts be? GONE, that's where!!

*loves your icon*

[nokomis305.livejournal.com]

So, the Anita Blake books- I've reread most of them, but it's been over four years since I read them the first time so I can't remember my initial reaction to them. I absolutely adore Edward, though, and as a result Obsidian Butterfly is my absolute favorite book of the series. (I once saw this pic of Brad Pitt that perfectly fit my mental Edward, so that's who plays the role in my book). Richard (with the exception of some characters in the later books, which I won't go into because you haven't read them yet) is my absolute least favorite character, and I can't reread any part with him in it without cringing slightly. JC is where it's at for me, and only partly because I always like the more evil of the choices in any given triangle.