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And I'm not sure if that's a tragedy or a blessing.
Sometimes ff_a is boring and barely worth skimming, sometimes it's wanky and anooying, and sometimes it has extremely entertaining threads about the Black Jewels Trilogy. (And also a great one about LKH's Merry Gentry books)
I've read every single one of the books being talked about in both threads, and the re-caps still kind of make me want to boggle at all the WTF-ery. Somehow, seeing the whole mess sumarized in one place highlights the OTT crack in a way that reading the books over a span of years doesn't. (And I strongly suspect that the Merry Gentry thread sounded like Ghost Soup* rambling to people unfamiliar with the books)
The second Black Jewels thread also reminded me how much I liked some aspects of the world-building. There are a number of cool ideas getting drowned out by the over-the-top Id-crack and Mary Sue-ness. Like the Merry Gentry books, actually, which combine terrible pacing, massive Mary Sue-dom, and way too much boring harem fantasy sex with what could have been a really interesting take on faerie and the Seelie and Unseelie courts if LKH was able to avoid getting derailed by Merry banging each newest member of her harem long enough to ever focus on it. (And despite my criticism, I totally read every single book up through Swallowing Darkness. Then Frost came back and I flounced from the series in pique because I hate Frost)
*many threads on the anon meme and in various yuletide discussions made a lot more sense to me when I realized that Ghost Soup was basically a fandom version of Mornington Crescent.
Sometimes ff_a is boring and barely worth skimming, sometimes it's wanky and anooying, and sometimes it has extremely entertaining threads about the Black Jewels Trilogy. (And also a great one about LKH's Merry Gentry books)
I've read every single one of the books being talked about in both threads, and the re-caps still kind of make me want to boggle at all the WTF-ery. Somehow, seeing the whole mess sumarized in one place highlights the OTT crack in a way that reading the books over a span of years doesn't. (And I strongly suspect that the Merry Gentry thread sounded like Ghost Soup* rambling to people unfamiliar with the books)
The second Black Jewels thread also reminded me how much I liked some aspects of the world-building. There are a number of cool ideas getting drowned out by the over-the-top Id-crack and Mary Sue-ness. Like the Merry Gentry books, actually, which combine terrible pacing, massive Mary Sue-dom, and way too much boring harem fantasy sex with what could have been a really interesting take on faerie and the Seelie and Unseelie courts if LKH was able to avoid getting derailed by Merry banging each newest member of her harem long enough to ever focus on it. (And despite my criticism, I totally read every single book up through Swallowing Darkness. Then Frost came back and I flounced from the series in pique because I hate Frost)
*many threads on the anon meme and in various yuletide discussions made a lot more sense to me when I realized that Ghost Soup was basically a fandom version of Mornington Crescent.