{"id":1019,"date":"2008-05-30T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2008-05-30T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T15:52:00","slug":"tiresome-sex-and-the-anita-blake-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/05\/30\/tiresome-sex-and-the-anita-blake-series\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Tiresome sex&#8221; and the Anita Blake series."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the Anita Blake series started off interesting and slid into porn. For example, an Amazon reviewer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/review\/R2VAZ2M0L74FWC\/ref=cm_cr_rdp_perm\">savages<\/a> Narcissus in Chains, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Narcissus-Chains-Anita-Vampire-Hunter\/dp\/1841491349\/ref=rcx_ser_title?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books\">midstream book<\/a> in the series, as follows: &#8220;This book brings in a new character, the male Nimir-Raj of another were-leopard pack, with whom Anita immediately has sex. And there&#8217;s mental sex, virtual sex, interspecies sex&#8230; it gets downright tiresome. You never knew sex could be this boring.&#8221; HAH!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should go back and read some of the earlier books in the series? I keep confusing them with Nancy Collins&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Sunglasses-After-Dark-Aniv-Borealis\/dp\/1565048490\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1212162953&amp;sr=1-1\">Sonja Blue<\/a> series, which memorably has vampire protagonist at odds with her vampirism, personified as a sleek and crazy killer that squats in her mind and talks to her under its breath. I would reread Collins again just for Sonja&#8217;s internal dialogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently the Anita Blake series started off interesting and slid into porn. For example, an Amazon reviewer savages Narcissus in Chains, a midstream book in the series, as follows: &#8220;This book brings in a new character, the male Nimir-Raj of another were-leopard pack, with whom Anita immediately has sex. And there&#8217;s mental sex, virtual sex,&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/05\/30\/tiresome-sex-and-the-anita-blake-series\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Tiresome sex&#8221; and the Anita Blake series.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}