Jill Gillham shared:
>I've been having a lot of fun with Laurell Hamilton's "Anita Blake,
>Vampire Hunter" series lately. Probably no Big Messages contained within,
>but one of the best take-no-prisoners female characters in print these
>days. Hamilton's got a great way of writing, but it might not be the best
>thing to read if you're squeamish. She describes things pretty
>graphically, and the body count tends to be pretty high. (LH has said that
>one of the reasons why she created Anita was because female detectives in
>stories never got to kill as many people as their male counterparts did.)
I like these books a lot as well, although they could be improved if her
prose would improve. I think she's a great storyteller, but for me, these
are airplane books, (or light summer reading) where I don't have time to
count how many times she uses exactly the same pronouns or adjectives to
describe something. I think the worst offender in the last book was that
EVERYONE's hair "foamed" over their shoulders. (minor spoiler) Well, that
and she ruined my SOD with the wet jeans.:)
Of interest in a similar vein (heh heh) I might suggest Tanya Huff's
"Blood" books. Just read the first one in Seattle last weekend, and thought
it was pretty good entertainment.
>
>Honestly, I haven't watched the seri (serieses? what's the plural,
>anyways?) since they killed off Tasha Yar, and the character I could most
>closely relate to was Wesley Crusher. (Yeah, I know. I was in high school
>at the time) Deanna Troi and the female doctors were just never allowed to
>do anything interesting, in my view.
That's the same time I quit watching, despite Crusher being a red head
which usually is an asset in a hero of mine. :)
>
>On a related rant, why aren't the strong female characters ever allowed to
>live? Tasha Yar was written out early in the series, and other characters
>in other popular movies that were seen as strong are all dead by the end
>credits. (Thelma and Louise and Catwoman come to mind) It's like there's a
>message that strong women are fated to face a very high cost for daring to
>be who they wanted to be.)
I like to call this the "Travis McGee" syndrome, after the fictional
amateur PI's illfated girlfriends.
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