Guilty comfort reading

[kangeiko]

I like to pretend that I have high-brow tastes, but I was in a charity store recently and they had a copy of Anne Rice's The Witching Hour, and as I hadn't read any of the Mayfair witches books I decided that I was going to get it and read all 1206 pages. I'm on page 76 so far and addicted, because there's nothing quite like ludicrous purple prose to gladden my inner 13 year old's heart. 

Sometimes you just need junk food for the brain. NOM.

(I also bought A Place of Greater Safety which will likely languish on my bookshelf while I read Anne Rice instead.)

Comments

[sistersophie]

Yay for guilty pleasure trash reading!

[kangeiko]

... I may have gone back to the bookshop and bought The Vampire Lestat as well. (& basically all of the Iain M Banks Culture novels, although they absolutely do not qualify as trash reading and I will need all my little brain cells to re-read them in time for the fic exchange...)

[sorchasilver]

Hee! Oh, the Mayfair Witches books, that brings back memories. Enjoy!

[kangeiko]

IT'S SO PURPLE I LOVE IT.

I also caved and re-bought The Vampire Lestat, because I love my trash vampire baby. One of my little ones at work hadn't even heard of Interview with a Vampire and I... I had to explain it to her. It felt like I was giving her The Talk.

[sorchasilver]

Oh, that must have been some conversation!

I bought Interview... when I was in California, aged 19. The film hadn't come out yet. Read the book on the plane home, then saw the film a few weeks later with a couple of my uni friends/flatmates. I remember going back to the house we shared, and all of us going upstairs to go to bed, and ending up standing on the upstairs landing between all our rooms talking about the book and the film for MORE THAN TWO HOURS. on the landing. We had three perfectly good bedrooms right there with beds and chairs for sitting. We had a living room downstairs with comfy couches. What were we thinking!? /flashback

Oh, Lestat! Ultimate drama queen. So gloriously ridiculous. <3

[kangeiko]

I don't think I was allowed to see the film? It was '94 I think, so I would have been too young. But I do remember seeing it later on (probably when they showed it on tv or I may have acquired a VHS copy). BUT. The book.

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I wrote an essay in English class on it. (And I found it a few years ago as well, printed on dot matrix paper, probably because scrolls weren't available.)

I completely envy you the talk with your uni friends, no one around me was obsessed with it like I was so I had to be sad and geeky about it all by myself. (And then I discovered that my local library had Rice's soft porn novels as well, so that basically corrupted me entirely.)