Washing My Hands of Laurell K. Hamilton...
Friday, May 29, 2009



I just cancelled my order for the lastest Anita Blake book, Skin Trade.  I absolutely refuse to read another sentence as painful as the second one below, which appears on the novel's first page.  

I refuse to read it even at Amazon's super-awesome discount price.  Hell, I just refused to move on to page 2 when it was offered to me for free on the author's website.  Bad prose is bad, mmm'kay?  And 400-800 pages of equally bad prose?  No thanks. 

I don't even care that it takes place in Vegas, which is why I started on the preview in the first place.  I wanted to see how badly she screwed up the setting. But now I realize I won't even be able to make it that far, which is a shame because her Anita Blake books used to be one of my favorite series.  And intelligently written. 

No, really.

Shit like that does not deserve to be published, much less be guaranteed a spot on a bestseller list.  And if you don't see anything wrong with above-posted sentence, please leave this blog and never come back.  You'll be doing us both a favor.

I am officially finished with this author.  I'll be taking the money I would've spent on the book and buying this haircare product instead.  It lives up to its name and never fails to deliver the quality I have come to expect.

 

P.S.  Ooh, they make shampoo!
   3 comments

gip-K
July 3, 2009   05:29 PM PDT
 
Oh, don't worry- I definitely see what's wrong with that sentence, especially sentence #2. i can barely understand what the heck she is saying!

It is hilarious, though. Gave me a giggle.
Daveman
May 31, 2009   06:29 PM PDT
 
Ang if you had read one book I managed to get my paws on, you'd swear that the aforementioned literary piece is sheer genious in contrast.

No, no, its not one I wrote. I'd be rish and famous if that were the case..,
no this one literary work read as if a 8 year old had written it. It was supposed to have been a seriousl science fiction work but came across as something like....,

"Captain Buzz was astonished. So he walked over there. When he was there he picked it up. Then he went back and was at the Starship. he swollowed some pills and was high. Then he went to the starship inside it and found his captains chair. Then he blasted off with the help of Nurr. Nurr was a co captain but not really. They were friends but they hated each other. So they flew to planet Aspean to get it repaired".

This was not a quote - but close enough - KILL ME NOW! I spennt $1 so many years ago but its horror lingers on, like the bad after taste of fish flavored ice cream. Not that I ever had any - Im just sayin'.
Marlana
May 30, 2009   07:57 AM PDT
 
I agree totally. I miss the old Laurell..

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