4.02.2005

Well, all of my fears about Queen of the Damned were assuaged very handily. The book picked up marvelously once the loose ends had been tied up and the plot began in earnest. Another Vampire Chronicles book devoured in three sessions. This mythology is starting to take up a substantially large portion of my brain, so I think I'm going to take a break from the Vampire Chronicles and let it fade a bit in my memory before moving on with the two books I just bought. I guess I'll give in to Chelle's pressure and start the Hitch Hiker's series, since we bought the last three books for her today.
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4.01.2005

I've been devouring Anne Rice novels at a rate of approximately one per week in a concerted attempt to delete the section of my brain that thinks that modern writing is automatically inferior. The first two books were enthralling, but Queen of the Damned is beginning to lose my interest because it's so bloody episodic. Hopefully it turns out to be worth it once the story actually progresses beyond the end of The Vampire Lestat. Hopefully at that point it'll be less fragmented and more continuous with Lestat doing the main narration. I am in love with the Brat Prince.

Chelle has become enthralled (synonyms be damned) with the Hitchhiker's series, finishing a book often in one or two sittings. Granted they're not that long, but that's still a lot of reading in one spell. I still haven't started the first book in earnest, but I've been busy with my beautiful vampires.

Work has been sucking in varying degrees lately. Some days it's particularly shitty, other days it's almost fun. Either way, my schedule is a cake walk and I generally enjoy playing janitor.

So, other than Anne Rice and Douglas Adams, are there any other modern authors that I should be paying particular attention to during this literary reform I'm subjecting myself to?
posted at 12:40

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