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What books are you reading?
kyrathaba:
From what I've gathered from the first three or four chapters, it's definitely eroticism, but with a veneer of fantasy. Having read it twice, can you tell me if it gets so engrossed in the eroticism that the story suffers? I don't want to read a Fifty Shades of Gray clone (albeit better written). I know that there are several more books in the Kushiel series.
40hz:
It's probably worth a read. As I said, I'm still not sure - and I haven't read the subsequent installments which fans have told me are better once you have the background in the first book to fall back on. It's not so much the erotic aspects (which I have no problem with if they're well written and have a good plot or storyline behind them) as I am with the fallen angel motif and (to me) the heavy lifting of societal concepts found in Zothique by Clark Ashton Smith.
I guess I'm saying I can't decide if it's actually good - or highly derivative.
re: 50 Shades of Gray
Read it and I'm not impressed. I found it rather predictable and juvenile. Other novelists have handled the subject far better, so I don't see what the big deal was for so many. Of course, there were people who thought 9-1/2 Weeks was a masterpiece, so no surprise there I suppose.
IMHO if you're going to write an erotic story - write a good erotic story. (It's a lot more difficult than it sounds.) 50 Shades never gets beyond kinky. And like Terry Pratchett observed: 'Erotic' uses a feather - 'kinky,' the entire chicken.
kyrathaba:
re: 50 Shades of Gray
Read it and I'm not impressed. I found it rather predictable and juvenile.
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I only read a few chapters of the first book before throwing it away. Crappily written for the ignorant masses. Thus, it appeals to the masses in the same way that all the poorly scripted, overacted soap operas do.
app103:
Starting on this, the next time my daughter kicks me off the computer.
My daughter borrowed a box full of books from a friend of hers, and it will be awhile till she gets to these, so I am borrowing them from her for a bit. :D
I saw the movie and liked it, and heard the book was so much better, so it's one of those things I feel compelled to read.
allen:
I'm reading Shattered Hourglass, the third (and hopefully final) book in the Day by Day Armageddon series. The first two books were great. It was all presented in diary format, from the POV so the story telling really was day by day and other than zombies walking around, it was depicted very believably. It was a fresh take on the genre.
Book 3 throws all of that out. Suddenly, it's omniscient third person narration with countless points of view, few of which are familiar characters from the previous books. What started as survival horror is now a mashup of government conspiracy, tactical shooter and science fiction. Yeah, there's aliens in it now.
Utter crap. But I've got to finish. . .
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