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It really is. One side of our garage was piled higher than my head with crap a few months ago. Now, he's got his heavy bag set up and a new pole thingy with our bikes and stuff hanging from it in an organized fashon. Plus, he can actually use his workbench and tools and stuff. It's amazing.
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I looked, and it is David Allen. Ron sent me to a bookstore to buy it for a client as a gift, and I asked for it by the author name "Robert Allen," for some reason I don't fully understand. So, they are forever mixed up in my mind. Same reason I still give people the wrong number for my cell phone-- I've given it out wrong so many times that I have as many memories of the wrong number as I do of the right number. I pick between the two, but I am only now starting to get which one is right. It's quite embarrassing.
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I'm about halfway through Incubus Dreams at the moment.
Blake's not-so-gradual change into horror erotica didn't bother me, and the character inconsistencies weren't that big a deal. But where the hell did her structure go? She could have easily made Anita's power changes and personal struggles more intense without taking up a few hundred pages and sex scene after sex scene after sex scene. And I like sex scenes!
So far the impression I've gotten is that as she wrote, she had no idea what the next scene would be. THe chapter endings and the this-happens-and-this-happens-and-this-happens style in this book are getting to me. I'll finish it, because I've liked (most) of her books so far, but it better have a damn good ending for her to win my confidence back.
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A friend sent me this review and I thought I'd share it with the thread since I found it hysterical.
quote:Amazon.com As Incubus Dreams opens, Anita Blake may be America's most powerful vampire hunter and necromancer. So it's no surprise that the Regional Preternatural Crime Investigation Team seeks her assistance when a St. Louis stripper is murdered and the evidence points to unusual serial killers: a group of seven vampires. It appears a master vampire has gone rogue--and may prove too powerful for Anita Blake, even if she can gain help from not only her vampire consort, Master of the City Jean-Claude, but from the wereleopard king Micah, her other lover, and the alpha werewolf Richard, her bitter ex-lover.
It would be an exaggeration to say that Laurell K. Hamilton's Incubus Dreams is just one sex scene after another. This twelth novel in her bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series presents a wedding, a murder, and a lot of relationship angst before getting down and dirty on page 89; and the sex scenes pause on page 377 to let the mystery plot resume. The series deftly blends elements of alternate history, horror, romance, erotica, and mystery, but anyone reading Incubus Dreams for the murder plot is going to be frustrated. However, Incubus Dreams is a considerably stronger and more interesting book than its talky predecessor, Cerulean Sins, and fans will enjoy the many new developments in Anita's complicated love life. --Cynthia Ward
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I have liked all of the books, but I would like them a bit better if she backed off some of the sex scenes. Not all of them, or my wife won't want to read them anymore... ....but she could almost cut them in half.
Now, her other series made it quite clear from the start that sex was extremely important to the fey, so I have no problem with it...but I expect a bit more than that from the Anita Blake stories.
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Just bumped to say that I have now read all of them except Incubus Dreams , and that is only because I'm too embarrassed to ask for it on interlibrary loan.
I don't mind violence with a side order of sex, but the other way around seems sort of pointless. I don't read Romance novels for that reason, since they seem to exist to tittilate.
But anyway... I guess I'm done with LKH.
But I'm going to use a gift card to get Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
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LKH has spawned an entire sub-genre of the modern horror series.
Jim Butcher Tanya Huff Kim Harrison
There is another author whose name escapes me - but the protagonist is a waitress with a vampire boyfriend.
You can't escape the sex as vampires are forever linked to phallic fangs and soft-core porn, but most authors keep it toned down to a more manageable level.
-Trevor
Edit: Charlene Harris, "Dead Until Dark" - she has a few more titles in the series.
Borders is a great way of finding similar authors by exploring the "customers who bought this book also bought..." links.
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