*snorfle* Good point. That's probably the more accurate descriptor. I'm still honked off at the series because I *liked* the early books. Anita was still a Mary Sue, but at least she kicked ass, and they were fun paranormal adventures. The wall-to-wall porn just makes me want to beat my head against the desk.
(Take your time! No worries. I know you haven't forgotten about me. You've got a lot going on right now, and it will all happen in good time. I have faith. :-) )
I love Urban Fantasy-- Emma Bull is amazing, and most of my original fiction could probably be termed this way-- but I never seem to have been able to get into Charles de Lint. I know this is some sort of blasphemy, and I've tried multiple times, but while I love his short story collections, I seem to stall on his longer stuff. I think part of this is that Newford drives me crazy because he reuses characters, and my memory isn't good enough to keep them all straight in my head throughout the course of many books, especially if I don't read them in order.
Another reason is my own personal failing that I hate watching characters fuck up. It had me watching "On the Job" and the end of s3 through my fingers, and de Lint's characters are realistic and fucked-up and human in a way that not a lot of authors can do, and sometimes this works for me and sometimes it means that I can't follow a story arc without flinching a lot. de Lint seems to be able to tap into this more than the other authors that I read
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I love de Lint, but I do know what you mean about his short stories vs. his novels, and about trying to keep all the Newford characters straight, especially at this point when most of the novels are highly dependent on having read previous ones to really know what's going on. (I'm thinking in particular of The Onion Girl and Widdershins.) I enjoy the novels, but I think the short stories are, by and large, my favorites of his work. Although you might like the novel I'm re-reading now, The Little Country, since that's not part of the Newford continuity. His recent YA books like The Blue Girl are, though set in Newford, less dependent on the backstory; if I remember right, I think there's, at most, one or two brief cameos there by recurring characters
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I miss WHN, I really do. I hadn't thought about it in years (except when trying to answer questions like "Why does someone who grew up in NY like country music so much?"), but looking up the history of the station when I was writing this post brought it all back.
I didn't appreciate the station back when we had it, but man, would I love to have something like that now.
I love Charles de Lint's novels, having started with his second novel, Moonheart (hey, it was set in Ottawa, where I lived, so I had to read it).
And he hosts the best damned garage sale in the world every June. He also writes book reviews, so every year he has a garage sale where he puts out nearly all the review copies he receives, as well as comic books, movies, cds, and miscellaneous other stuff. I think that in the last fifteen years, I've maybe missed two years. And he's moved in that time, but he can't shake his loyal shoppers.
Oh, Moonheart is a great one, too. I haven't read it in a while, now that you mention it.
The garage sale sounds fantastic! It's so great to hear that he does something like that every year. If I lived in or near Ottawa, I would so definitely be there every year to check out what he had for sale.
I love your description of why you like Mac, and that you like him because he is flawed and screwed up.He is. Not in the same way, or as much as Danny is,but he is flawed/screwed up, and I love that because it makes him human and likeable. I love how they've darkened the character over the last two seasons, with storylines like the Dobson one, and the story from The Thing About Heroes
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(also, no, I haven't forgotten about you. mcshep_match is due this week and kicking my behind. :()
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(Take your time! No worries. I know you haven't forgotten about me. You've got a lot going on right now, and it will all happen in good time. I have faith. :-) )
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Another reason is my own personal failing that I hate watching characters fuck up. It had me watching "On the Job" and the end of s3 through my fingers, and de Lint's characters are realistic and fucked-up and human in a way that not a lot of authors can do, and sometimes this works for me and sometimes it means that I can't follow a story arc without flinching a lot. de Lint seems to be able to tap into this more than the other authors that I read ( ... )
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I listened to WHN (along with WNEW AM) all the time.
The first concert I ever went to, was the Oak Ridge Boys and the Bellamy Brothers and I went because I won tickets on WHN.
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I didn't appreciate the station back when we had it, but man, would I love to have something like that now.
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And he hosts the best damned garage sale in the world every June. He also writes book reviews, so every year he has a garage sale where he puts out nearly all the review copies he receives, as well as comic books, movies, cds, and miscellaneous other stuff. I think that in the last fifteen years, I've maybe missed two years. And he's moved in that time, but he can't shake his loyal shoppers.
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The garage sale sounds fantastic! It's so great to hear that he does something like that every year. If I lived in or near Ottawa, I would so definitely be there every year to check out what he had for sale.
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