wherein Liz briefly contemplates ff.net

[edenfalling]

I think ff.net's alert function is broken. You know how I know this? Because over the past two days, I've seen new chapters from two authors I have on author alert, but I got no email notification. Also, I posted chapter 7 of "Lemonade" over there a few hours ago, but I didn't get the auto-copy of the notification email.

I am peeved.

It's funny. I have various reasons (some petty, some less so) for disliking ff.net, but it serves a very necessary function in bringing so many different fandoms together and letting people explore and post and review and jump around with relative ease. We need that site to exist. The positives outweigh the negatives.

...

Anyway, I'm heading home to fry up some chicken and onions and read some more of Storm Front by Jim Butcher. (A few months back, I read a Spider-Man book he wrote and liked his writing enough -- engaging narrative voice, good grasp of characterization, deft touch with plot -- that I decided to look into his original stories. So far, Harry Dresden does not disappoint. *grin*)

Comments

[edenfalling]

Well, I'm only on book 2 of the Dresden Files, so I can't say what the series is like as a whole. I do like those first two books, though. (Storm Front and Fool Moon.)

The Anita Blake series starts out okay, but somewhere between the 5th and 10th books (the exact point seems to depend on the reader) it stops being about supernatural mysteries and the way Anita's life is slowly spinning out of control, and turns into porn instead. Also, Laurell K. Hamilton starts gutting all the characters besides Anita, so that Anita is always right and always justified in whatever stupid and screwy decisions she makes, because Anita has always been something of an authorial avatar, and Hamilton has lost the dividing line between herself and her fictional character.

[arkeus.livejournal.com]

I see. i wouldn't have liked it then anyway, because i don't like lives spinning out of control. i kinds of creeps me out. i kind of prefer the opposite :/ it explains why i like mercedes lackey :p

The main problem i heard about harry dresden files was that it always followed the same pattern, and that he doesn't stand up for himself, but the guy saying that had just read a few chapter so it may be wrong. Good luck with it, and please tell us if it's a find :-)

Thanks for answering about the anita blake bit.