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[mhalachai]

Allow me to clarify my rabidness about the Anita Blake books:

They're books. I tend to focus on the positive and the things I like in them, as I dislike to the extreme the crap that comes off a lot of the AB forums on the Internet, but that doesn't mean I'm blind to the books faults. These days, all that I read goes through the "Anita Blake fanfic" filter, so it's likely I'm looking at the books in a different way than you lot.

So here it is: As opposed to the normal sunshine and cheer that goes around here, take the opportunity to nitpick, to say what you don't like about the Anita Blake books/characters/cover art etc. Thing is, if you say you don't like something, you need to say why.

Also, feel free to comment anonymously.

ETA PS: There are now spoilers for Micah and the Danse Macabre teaser in this thread. FYI KTHNX.

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[catherinecookmn.livejournal.com]

LKH has Famous Authors Syndrome, a disease which counts among its victims JKR, the late Patrick O'Brian, and pretty much any major author whose books represent a sizable chunk of his/her publisher's profits. This disease causes the writer's latent dislike/distrust of editors (the old-fashioned term for "paid betas who are very merciless and thorough") to overwhelm his/her common sense, causing them to refuse to let editors do more than correct typos.

There's a reason that Penthouse Forum letters usually feature 'first encounters' between people. It's because, on the printed page at least, the first sexual meeting between two or more people is usually the most interesting, or at least the most sexually charged. Unless there's a particular reason to delineate a sex/love scene in autopsy-like detail -- especially when you've got a character who literally is forced by the ardeur to have sex more often than she goes to the bathroom -- much of the sex scenes in the later books can be dealt with in a paragraph or even a sentence.