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Links: Playing Catch-Up

Dec 29th, 2008
by gav.

Now that Christmas is over I’m trying to catch up with the internet. Amazingly my internet-free time has been mostly reading. And I’ve been reading on a new toy but I’ll tell you more about that in another post. I’m sure some of you can guess. And I love it!

Robert @ Fantasy Book Critic has a review of Twelve . Vampires are the in thing as I got a copy of Twilight for Christmas and I’ve got another historical/vampire novel The Secret War by M F W Curran (which Graeme is giving away). I guess the best vampire books I’ve read are Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice and Blood by Poppy Z Brite and, of course, Charlie Huston’s books… actually I like vampires when they are don’t right. So will be interesting to see how they work in Twelve. Oh and My Favourite Books has an interview with Jasper Kent!

NethSpace points me to a rather long discussion on Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist by Lilith Saintcrow. Neth has other links as well. I do agree with type of Urban fantasy I’m really now is rather grey in terms of good and evil and is rather more realistic for it. The other stuff is above my pay grade. Rob sums it all up.

In case you’d not already noticed 2008 is about to end and so we have a lot of 2008 in reflection posts:

Pat and Nath’s are up. Speculative Fiction Junkie has a top 5. Graeme’s isn’t on his site. Then there is The Dummies….

Feminist Book Worm and the Asylum show me a more literary round-up.

I’m just wondering if I want to do a 2008 Top Something or Best of… I might do an alternative one. We’ll see.

Posted in: Round-Up, links.

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  • gav
    Thanks Stewart,

    It's so long since I've read anything by Poppy Z. that it's all mushed in my head. How embarrassing! I'll have to hunt them out if I still have them...

    Out of the whole of her stuff I gelled most with Queen of the Damned. I didn't ever finish Lestat or Memnoch.... but I was a teenager at the time so my tastes my be considerably different if I read them again now.

    Some books I guess are a reflection of the time when they are read.
  • gav
    Thanks Stewart,

    It's so long since I've read anything by Poppy Z. that it's all mushed in my head. How embarrassing! I'll have to hunt them out if I still have them...

    Out of the whole of her stuff I gelled most with Queen of the Damned. I didn't ever finish Lestat or Memnoch.... but I was a teenager at the time so my tastes my be considerably different if I read them again now.

    Some books I guess are a reflection of the time when they are read.
  • I guess the best vampire books I’ve read are Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice and Blood by Poppy Z Brite


    I take it you mean Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite. But, since that wasn't a vampire novel, it take it you really mean Lost Souls. I haven't read Brite for years, can barely remember much of the books, but a few short stories still stick in my mind, of which her best, His Mouth Will Taste Of Wormwood, is one.

    As for Rice: Queen Of The Damned! Really? Saying that, I thought Memnoch The Devil was the best of the original five Chronicales, while everyone else disagreed with me.
  • I guess the best vampire books I’ve read are Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice and Blood by Poppy Z Brite


    I take it you mean Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite. But, since that wasn't a vampire novel, it take it you really mean Lost Souls. I haven't read Brite for years, can barely remember much of the books, but a few short stories still stick in my mind, of which her best, His Mouth Will Taste Of Wormwood, is one.

    As for Rice: Queen Of The Damned! Really? Saying that, I thought Memnoch The Devil was the best of the original five Chronicales, while everyone else disagreed with me.
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