4.01.2005

I've been devouring Anne Rice novels at a rate of approximately one per week in a concerted attempt to delete the section of my brain that thinks that modern writing is automatically inferior. The first two books were enthralling, but Queen of the Damned is beginning to lose my interest because it's so bloody episodic. Hopefully it turns out to be worth it once the story actually progresses beyond the end of The Vampire Lestat. Hopefully at that point it'll be less fragmented and more continuous with Lestat doing the main narration. I am in love with the Brat Prince.

Chelle has become enthralled (synonyms be damned) with the Hitchhiker's series, finishing a book often in one or two sittings. Granted they're not that long, but that's still a lot of reading in one spell. I still haven't started the first book in earnest, but I've been busy with my beautiful vampires.

Work has been sucking in varying degrees lately. Some days it's particularly shitty, other days it's almost fun. Either way, my schedule is a cake walk and I generally enjoy playing janitor.

So, other than Anne Rice and Douglas Adams, are there any other modern authors that I should be paying particular attention to during this literary reform I'm subjecting myself to?
posted at 12:40

Lies were told instead.