Saturday, March 26, 2011

Belated Friday five.

I read a few of the Sookie Stackhouse books last year while waiting for True Blood to become available on Netflix. They read like a 60-year-old frumpy southern lady living vicariously through a 26-year-old hottie who ran with vamps (I mean, what 26-year-old TALKS like that?). After about four books* I couldn't take any more, and when the series finally arrived in my mailbox I sent it back without really even giving it a shot. But... Alan Ball! How could it be bad? So recently I got curious again.

I'm only four episodes in, but Mr. Ball has come through. Five quotes that made me smile, in no particular order except that I saved the best for last:
  • "You're dumber than a box o' hair..."
  • "You were just licking blood out of my head. I don't think it gets much more personal than that."
  • "You should not be allowed to work in no situation where you actually have to interact with people.”
  • "Don’t say uh-oh. Vampires aren’t supposed to say uh-oh."
  • "Do you know who I would really wish to come to Bon Temps? Buffy."

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* Yes, I got through four of them... good bus porn.

2 comments:

  1. Hey, those books kept me semi-sane for a while. Endless supply of sex with a paranormal hunk who doesn't criticize the protagonist's body, doesn't pretend to know more than she does about her own life and mind, doesn't lie -- what's not to like?

    The last 2 or 3 books sucked in a major manner, though.

    I would rather not know how a 26-year-old speaks while experiencing sex and romance for the first time. ::shudder::

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  2. Well, I did read FOUR of them... :) The HBO series (via Netflix) is pretty darned good.

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