[Ana]

Oooh... yay for a readers hangout. <3

My favorite genres are Fantasy and Horror. Some favorite authors/series are Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, Jaqueline Carey's Kushiel series, Stepehen King and Clive Barker.

I really liked Anne Rice's vampire books up until Memnoch the Devil. I just felt Lestat was acting sooo out of character in it. I also liked her Mayfair Witches series.

Hehe, I like Laurel K. Hamilton, although I've read more of her Merry Gentry series than the Anita Blake series. She does tend to start off a little racy and then go full on smut, but I don't mind. She's definitely light, fluffy reading though.

As for Twilight, I've read the entire series and liked it well enough. It's not "OMG best thing EVAR." but it was fun and it was a great distraction for me during a rough time I was going through, so I was probably more forgiving than I'd usually be, lol. I can see the things that people who hate complain about though, and even though I liked the series overall, I also like the mocking of it, cause they're usually right.

I find both extremes of love and hate for it silly. It was a nice, entertaining series with admittedly its share of flaws. It is neither the most amazing vampire series ever written nor the most horrendous worthy to be burnt series ever written.

I honestly think most of the more rabid hate for the series is misplaced annoyance at the more rabid fans and not really about the book itself. Especially considering that a lot of the people who say they hate it, have somehow come to that conclusion without ever having even read it.

And... that's my wall o' text for the evening ^.^;;