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Introduction!

Aug 12, 2010 13:15

Hi fellow VC fans! I'm so glad to have found this group! In fact I joined lj just to become a member of this place (so really hope you'll keep me :). I first joined lj way long ago in 1999 (when I first read the VC) and was a member for a few years but eventually some of the drama and also the idea of having too much personal info out there drove ( Read more... )

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i_sanguinity August 13 2010, 13:31:11 UTC

Welcome to the fray! It's always a pleasure when real long-haulers find us and join ranks (I'm one myself--first read the books in '94 and have been in the fandom basically ever since, a few years' hiatus notwithstanding).

pointedulac August 13 2010, 22:21:16 UTC

I'm exactly the same. Or mostly the same. 94-present, minus a few years on hiatus in disgust of Merrick and whatever other dribble AR published during that time. Sadly I'm all caught up now.

Welcome to the group!

juneaurelie August 30 2010, 18:19:28 UTC

Thanks so much! It took me forever to get to reply to everyone here as I was on vacation for 2 1/2 weeks. Now that I'm back I just wanted to say thanks for the welcome! I'm thrilled to have joined a group with so many members that have been reading and loving the books for ages, many of you even that much longer than I have! Look forward to talking more VC with you! :)

mumsisdaughter August 13 2010, 14:55:57 UTC

Welcome!

juneaurelie August 30 2010, 18:18:06 UTC

Thanks!! :)

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juneaurelie August 30 2010, 18:17:55 UTC

Actually, I agree with you there - I did really enjoy TVA. It was the last book I enjoyed that much, too, and I like it better than Memnoch.

pandorasblog August 13 2010, 22:01:56 UTC

I'm always very torn between TVL and QotD, favourites-wise. There's always one just edging ahead of the other, and right now it's QotD. :D

I understand your distaste for David - I like the character who shows through under the stereotype of an upper-crust English gentleman, but like anything else, it'd be better if the stereotype wasn't there in the first place. You won't have encountered him because you stopped halfway through Blackwood Farm, but there's a chap (definitely a 'chap') by the name of Stirling Oliver in there who's a classic example of the breed: Talamascan, frightfully awfully British, and a little too blase about vampires.

I suspect he had to be brought in because she'd killed off Aaron Lightner by that time, and of course David was well clear of the Talamasca by then...

pointedulac August 13 2010, 22:19:11 UTC

I suspect, like most characters that book, Stirling was David Talbot with a name tag that read Stirling. Except David wasn't entirely blase about vampires until after he and Lestat became something like friends (ie: Lestat kept trying to take off his tweed if you know what I mean, and I think you do).

pandorasblog August 13 2010, 22:20:01 UTC

I think I do. And I was honestly surprised when David didn't put out by the end of the book... :P

pointedulac August 13 2010, 22:22:08 UTC

I KNOW. How does someome resist Lestat but fall all over himself over Merrique and Armand?

Granted, Armand is like living sex, but nonetheless...

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torment2romance August 16 2010, 14:38:50 UTC

I love your entry. All that stuff you said about about David (GAG) is exactly why I hate him so much. Americans have a very distorted view of the english ;/

juneaurelie August 30 2010, 18:22:56 UTC

I kind of had a similar idea about the English myself, well, to a point anyway, before I moved to England (I'm Dutch). I love living here but have definitely discovered the upper crusty Cambridge-type scholar English stereotype is exactly that - a stereotype, even more so than I had thought before moving to England.
Glad to see I'm not the only one who is not a fan of Mr. Talbot!