I would like book recommendations please.

[mimesere]

I want books that are FABULOUSLY cracktastic. Blind princess assassins from another dimension? AWESOME. Vampire assassins for the CIA? Doubly awesome. Mary Sue queen of the moon vampires? Fantastic!

I mean seriously. I want crack. Published crack. I want crack like Thursday Next except maybe EVEN CRACKIER.

Like, okay, you know how Laurell K Hamilton writes some truly awful books with no redeeming value at all except for the LOL-inducing fetishistic description of hair and boots (and oh man, for hilarious good times, go look at her webstore. I've never in my life seen that many ugly t-shirts in one place)? I want stuff that is like that. Where pretty much the only reaction one can have is the choked off laughter as the intrepid heroine has yet more sex with yet another random (and fetishized) dude or five. I mean, I don't need orgies or anything, but I want that sort of AHAHAHAHA SRSLY? reaction. Or um, you know, books that are good. But cracktastic.

And you know where I tend to find this stuff? In the paranormal romance section of the bookstore. Like, there are some good ones, but do I go for those? Not generally, no. I go for the shit with talking cats and psychic soul mates and bizarre pseudo-celtic worldbuilding. I want stuff like *that*. I also really liked um, wossname, the books with the psychics and shapeshifters and people of color in starring roles. CRACK. *grabby hands*

Failing this, I would like recommendations for frothy, delightful, funny books where people are decent and fall in love and maybe they have angst but it's not like, EXCESSIVE or if it is, then at least they are not ZOMG TORTURED AND BROODING. Right now? I would kill for a new Julia Quinn book.

this is always my book desire: delightful and frothy OR hilarity-inducing. Or um, books with capers and explosions. So, pretty much the same as what I like in the rest of my media. rec stuff! Stuff that is frothy and delightful! Or hilarity inducing! I want like, the book equivalent of the video for Guilty Pleasure. Or, really, I would like the book equivalent of Cobra Starship or GCH. But mostly Cobra Starship.

For the record, I pretty much feel that the vampire assassins for the CIA books and the ones with the psychics and werewolves are like the equivalent of FOB and the blind princess assassin book is the equivalent of MCR. I do not generally read books that are the equivalent of Radiohead and I have yet to find a book that really reminds me of Muse, though if you have recommendations for that, I will gladly take them too.

I use this icon because HELLO THERE ARROW FAMILY, YOU ARE STILL THE AWESOMEST. I was re-reading the Green Arrow re-launch trades and some of the early Outsiders v2 stuff and my love for the Speedys was rekindkled. Also, while discussing various DC titles, I had an entire conversation at work that went:
dude reading a GL trade: "I love this, Hal is the best."
me: "He killed the ENTIRE LANTERN CORPS because he's a manpainy douche."
dude: "But it was awesome."
me: "The entire. Lantern. Corps. Because he was a *douche*."
dude: "I take it you don't like Hal."
me: "If I *have* to choose a Lantern, it goes John, Kyle, EVERYONE ELSE IN THE CORPS EVER, the old guy in the Justice Society, that one dude whose name I can't remember who is an enormous sexist jackass, and then maybe Hal if I'm feeling generous."
dude: "Kyle? Really?"
me: "Really. He's got some definite points in his favor, like NOT HAVING KILLED THE ENTIRE LANTERN CORPS."

It turns out that dude also thinks Superman is a goody two shoes (WTF PEOPLE) and so I shun him.

(authors referenced in this post: Richard Kadrey, Jennifer Rardin, Sunny, Jasper Fforde, LKH, Robin Owens)

Comments

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Oh dude, I have read Christine Feehan. She is as terrible as you have heard. I don't even remember the plot of the one I read and I'm usually pretty good about that, but it was seriously filled with emo douchitude the likes of which I have not seen since I took British Lit.

Sherrilyn Kenyon. *thinks* I have...a lot of her books? I definitely have the book sex slave one and like, five or six of the others. But then they all started getting regrettably similar and OTT in a way where I just wanted to smack everyone and wish them all to perdition.

I tried Mary Janice Davidson, but she ended up not being for me, though I can't remember why.

And I *love* the Sookie Stackhouse mysteries, as you are entirely right in that Sookie is my kind of heroine.

The most awful -- and I mean AWFUL -- crack I've read was the Brotherhood of the Dagger? Something like that by JR Ward. OMG they are terrible. And like, I had these hopes that the BIG GAY SUBTEXT which briefly became text was going to go somewhere but then no. ZOMG they are the worst things I have ever read, they make no sense, the world building is awful, the gender roles are insulting to everyone, and there's some truly shitty dialogue and yet I have happily spent something like $30 on them. Which I have stopped as the last book was SO BAD it practically made my eyes bleed. I can't even articulate how hilariously awful they are. They make LKH seem like high literary art.

[debchan.livejournal.com]

The Brotherhood of the Black Dagger. OMG, yes. There was a week or so where I could not stop reading them. Finally book five cured me, probably because I was mostly in it for the Big Gay Subtext that Ward killed dead. Still, I sometimes wonder how book six will turn out with that technically a virgin guy and his forty or so new brides.

[mimesere.livejournal.com]

Ahahaha, technically a virgin guy. I too was in it for the bizarre big gay subtext that just magically went away. And then there are whole threads of plot that are just WTF inducing.

And yet I read them laughing the whole time.