Monday, October 4, 2010

Laurell...I love you/I hate you...

Do you ever wonder why you need to show ID to buy liquor, cigarettes, movies and games...but not books? 

Guilty Pleasures [GUILTY PLEASURES] [Mass Market Paperback]
The one that started it all...
I guess I pondered that myself when I was fourteen and had just discovered...Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter).  I blushed simply picking up this title and almost didn't have the nerve to bring it to the cashier.  I was with my Dad at the time...he had already know I was a lost cause when it came to reading anything and everything, and upon his asking what book I had to selected, I said..."oh, just a book".  I could not find the courage to say "pleasures" in front of my father.  Yikes!

Up until recently, I had stuck with Laurell K Hamilton, reading whatever book of hers I could get my impressionable mind on.  That was ALOT of books, if you don't believe me, Search Amazon.com for Laurell K Hamilton.


The Laughing Corpse, Circus of the Damned, The Lunatic Cafe and The Killing Dance were just a few of Ms. Hamilton's books that I read in a matter of days.  I couldn't get enough of Anita and friends.  I stayed loyal to the series until Obsidian Butterfly. Things just started to get a little too weird for me after that.  I secretly still put Ms. Hamilton's book on the hold shelf at the library for myself, but can't bring myself to pay almost $30 per hardcover for three hundred pages of orgy and no crime solving.

After the heartbreak of being disappointed by my all time favorite author...I decided to do a little research and find myself a new series...

Any thought on the Anita Blake series?  Please, feel free to post.  I'd love to hear your opinions.

2 comments:

  1. Kill off some of your characters already Laurell! and for god sake put poor whats his face out of his misery! David? Brian? wtf was his name?

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  2. You two are cracking me up!

    Natalie, I found you through your friends blog and am your second follower.
    Come by and say hi at my blog sometime.

    Chazz
    chazzhart.blogspot.com

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