queen of the damned - oh god, GTTFP already!
help me, f'list! i'm about 2/3 - 3/4 of the way through, and this thing is finally starting to annoy me...the bit at the beginning with the domestic stuff between daniel and armand, and the massacre at the rock concert, and the bit with laurent and baby jenks; that was all cool.
but.
i think i am going to hurl the goddamn book across the room if i hear one more freaking word about the precious martyred 'twins'.
this book could be half its current length if anne rice would just SHUT THE HELL UP and GET TO THE FUCKING POINT ALREADY. when i read a book, i like a plot (or several) that's driven by interesting characters...NOT eighty-six gajillion pages of, 'ooh, look at me, i spent ages researching this time/era/culture, so you're damn well gonna read about it...for half the flipping book! ooh, look at me, i can make a whole religion out of the virgin records logo twins! MAH BORING PRIVATE AUTHOR RESEARCH, LET ME SHOW U IT!'
right now i'm at 'the story of the twins, part one', and i swear to god, it's getting so bad that i'm resorting to imagining what the other vamps are doing while maharet is up there making that long-assed never-ending speech about how mean and cruel the nasty old egyptians were to them.
here's what's going on in my head: louis is making ever more intricate origami animals, which are piling up on the table at an alarming rate. jesse is reading 'war and peace', which she always meant to do when she had a spare couple of years to waste. pandora is watching the geologic layers shift in the forest bed outside. gabrielle is solving unsolveable quantum theory problems in her head and making a scale model of the taj mahal out of stray pine needles. daniel and armand are playing footsie under the table, only it's a special sort of vampire footsie that gives them orgasms, only of course you can't tell because armand is just so STOIC. marius and santino are making lightning with their branes which is created out of their undying hate for each other, mael is making a mental list of all the hoagie sandwiches he's ever had in his entire life, and khayman is making farts with his armpit. and akasha and lestat are in their trailer playing cards, bored out of their minds, waiting for the story to shift back to them again.
someone tell me it's going to get better soon? PLS? i'm already reading bits of the vampire armand, memnoch the devil, and blood and gold...is there anything else in qotd worth waiting around for, or can i just toss it and enjoy the other books instead?
Q
ps - i skipped ahead a bit, so i already know how the twins defeat akasha