Found my way here from a friend's link. Ann Rice ended up being part of required reading for a science fiction class whose topic was vampirism. Her book ended up being the only one that I, an avid bibliophile, have ever shredded, burnt, and thrown away.
Years later someone encouraged me to try again with LeStat. I didn't get through an entire chapter without laughing maniacally. The first half of it reads as though it were written by a twelve year old, complete with vampire-disguised-as-rock-star-but-shh-no-one-knows-that.
I'll admit that some of her nonvampiric works are competently written (Ramese the Damned, for instance) but this chronicle should have died several books ago. I don't tend to waste my money on authors who 1) don't apparently understand that their readers as a whole are the reason they sell book and 2) can't be bothered to use an editor and put out readable materials.
She's not alone; I quit reading Piers Anthony for the same reasons, about the time he started putting extensive pissy notes at the ends of his Xanth novels about how useless the fandom was and please don't bother him, he's too busy for you but go ahead and buy the next book.
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Years later someone encouraged me to try again with LeStat. I didn't get through an entire chapter without laughing maniacally. The first half of it reads as though it were written by a twelve year old, complete with vampire-disguised-as-rock-star-but-shh-no-one-knows-that.
I'll admit that some of her nonvampiric works are competently written (Ramese the Damned, for instance) but this chronicle should have died several books ago. I don't tend to waste my money on authors who 1) don't apparently understand that their readers as a whole are the reason they sell book and 2) can't be bothered to use an editor and put out readable materials.
She's not alone; I quit reading Piers Anthony for the same reasons, about the time he started putting extensive pissy notes at the ends of his Xanth novels about how useless the fandom was and please don't bother him, he's too busy for you but go ahead and buy the next book.