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If you look in the Harry Potter picture thread, my sister (Aranel-Raina) had been posting a bunch of images. Some of them are Remus/Sirius...but I think they look an awful lot like they could be Alex/Seregil...and it makes me happy. XD

Novels with shounen-ai in them... Uh, never really read any, apart from the Vampire Chronicles... Ever read anything by Storm Constantine?

Because I have a lot of time on my hands now, and I love talking about good books, I'll list my opinions on Anne Rice and other stuff and pretend that someone cares. lol
so..
the gayvampirebook Mum says:


the Interview with the Vampire
the Vampire Lestat
the Queen of the Damned

were the ones I read when I was 11, and managed to do the whole thing without seeing anything "weird" in them.
It was years later when I started looking at them with new eyes XD Anyway, the first book is a classic, can't fight that, but I found it dreadfully boring to have an ancient woman float around doing massacre, so the first trilogy is the only thing I've found from mrs.Rice and not bought.
Plus - Lestat seriously pisses me off. "Me lestat, you woman. You must love me for no reason whatsoever." The only time I liked him was when he was with the old dude in...

the Tale of the Body thief
Memnoch the Devil
the Vampire Armand

which, at least to me, form the next "trilogy".
Anyone read the graphic novel version about the first? It was... emm... (undecided)
Anyway, Memnoch the Devil is ultimately the best of those three. I mean, dearold Lessie goes through hell and heaven hand in hand with a fuzzy angel satan. singing flowers and butterflies and god and icecream and whatnot.

Armand was really-really-really beautiful when I read it back when I was 15.
Then it was forever ruined from me, when years after I only saw marius as a freaking ***** these, I lose track of the order of the vampire books.

Blood and Gold tells us the story of Marius, the old perv. Again.
there's Pandora, which sucks terribly, I'm sorry. It's another one of Anne Rice's mystical motherfigurines going around the world dazzling males with their intellect. Add that to Mrs. Rice's music-loving self-portrait in Violin and weep. I don't know. She does such a better job writing those pretty men of hers. Her females have always been incomprehensible, but well, to me, real ones are too.

Vittorio is a book I can describe with just one word.
why?


Violin has nothing to do with vampires, neither do my personal favorites, the Servant of the Bones and Cry to Heaven. Both in historical settings, these are by far the ones that have required mrs. Rice the most study and work. I guess. That shows.
The language is rich and colorful, the landscapes are painted with as much care as the characters, and both of the books have that feeling of honest fiction I personally love so much. The characters are happily exaggerated, the plot is dipped in drama and ... the books are forever too short. >___< The best of Rice senior.

Ehh. Addition: In the Servant of the Bones, a great (pretty) ghost bound to his golden bones bugs a novelist greatly with his life's (and afterlife's) story, all the way from old Babylon. In the latter, castrato choir boys get it on.

(Actually, Cry to Heaven might have been the last Rice book I got my mother to read. She sighed something like "One page more of this venetian lace and I'm hiding a gun in this book and sending it back to the author.")


I was never able to finish the Mayfair Witches. I despaired. During the third book, somewhere when the things started to spawn and it became a John Carpenter movie. So, not having finished the trilogy, I won't talk about it. If I remember correctly, there isn't obvious homosexuality in those books, so they don't even need to be mentioned here. Huh?

Other books yet unread from A.R. include Merrick (brr), the feast of All Saints (of which I know NOTHING about! Someone tell me?) and her loads of erotica. What were they called. Betty Boob and Betty's Despair and Betty's Second Coming.
(No, not really.)

I read the Blackwood farm... I have no idea what it was about. Can't remember a thing. Oh noes! Now I remember. They were all heterosexual.



Christopher Rice is, as someone already said, doing a fantastic job too. He's studied his mum's stuff well, yet he doesn't go anywhere near the same subjects, he just snatches all of her readers - he writes weird gothic teen thrillers with attitude, style and honestly gay characters, nothing like this "well, mmpftvampires are bisexual"-mumble.
A Density of Souls was gorgeous. the Snow Garden was not that good, but it was good and definitely a book to read a couple of times - many-leveled story, well told with a bucketful of morbid and macabre. Ahh! To be teen and angst again. whee Please don't punch me.
Anyway, could you possibly think of a better present to give your son than a worldful of people who will read anything you write? XD He deserves it, all he's had to put up with... Lestat-action figures around the house.

Wow! This much already.

I shall write more after I visit my bookshelf and check out other authors for you. Or for me, since I doubt anyone will really read this XD

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UNRICEOUS literature!

Back again and I will talk to you about Robin Hobb.
Have you people read Robin Hobb? Read Robin Hobb.
READ ROBIN HOBB.

Nine books of amazing fantasy and the most real unreal characters you'll ever see. I can't count the times I cried my eyes out during the three trilogies. (Farseer trilogy, Liveship Traders, Tawny Man). Or laughed my a** off, too. Or stayed up reading until 5AM.
I need to read all of them once a year, min. I can't live without the Fool.
Neither can Fitz. heart

Too bad her new trilogy started off like it would've been written by a computer o__o Is she worn out with all the amazingness of her 9 priceless jewels of fantasy literature? Or was it really, like it sounded, just a long intro to what has yet to begin?



My next recommendation is Tom Spanbauer's the Man who fell in love with the moon.
This book breaks so many taboos it should've been written on fireproof paper, just in case. It's weird from the beginning to the end. I loved it. It's certainly a good addition to anyone's bookshelf. Don't put it next to the manga, though, it might get offended.
Still haven't read his next book, the city of shy hunters, which - I think - took him many years to write and my friends keep praising.

I, personally can't stand Mercedes Lackey or Anne Rice. Both their writing style and characterization grate on my nerves.

For novels with m/m relationships, my favorite author is Lynn Flewelling. Her characters are amazing! Even the most minor character in her story seems like a real person! Seregil is witty, clever, and interesting. Alec, I also love, although there are points where I didn't much care for him. She is also a very nice author(I sent her some fanart a while ago, she put it up on her site and thanked me for it. Apparently my drawing of Seregil was her first anime picture done of her characters that she had seen xd ).

I also like Poppy Z. Brite's books. My favorite one of hers is Drawing Blood.

Oh, I really loved that. I went back to the Library to find it, but some scumbag has it checked out!