Important Announcement
Nov. 24th, 2006 12:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mad_andyToday I received four books in the post:
Rock Hard
Flying Low
Internal Affairs
Rain Dogs
All of them are excellent. In fact, reading Rock Hard in the studio - it being as dead as the proverbial doornail at the moment - I realised just how excellent; I hadn't read a lot of the stories, and the ones I had read it was a delight to rediscover.
At home this evening I've read Flying Low, which contains the story Of Wolf And Sheep, which I love to bits, still makes me laugh, and was one of the stories that made me realise that not all slash was crap.
However.
I've just finished reading Rain Dogs.
Go. Buy it.
If you've never read bandfiction before and wonder what all the fuss is about, if you think all slash is crap, even if you don't like any of the bands in it go and buy it RIGHT FUCKING NOW.
The writing makes me smile, it makes me ache inside, it's beautiful and vicious and you don't just feel like you're there watching the characters, you're in them, part of them, breathing and feeling and fucking with them. It's an object lesson in emotion, and pace, and storytelling.
You can have a tale with no title and it can still grab you by the guts and not let you go.
It makes me want to go outside and dance in the rain to music I can hear inside my head. (And it's Novemember, I'm in the UK and it's farking COLD out there.)
The one huge shame?
That she'll never be recognised by the wider writing community, the mainstream publishers and the big critics. Because everyone should read this book and feel bloody humble.
Why are you still here?
Go. Buy it.
NOW.
Rock Hard
Flying Low
Internal Affairs
Rain Dogs
All of them are excellent. In fact, reading Rock Hard in the studio - it being as dead as the proverbial doornail at the moment - I realised just how excellent; I hadn't read a lot of the stories, and the ones I had read it was a delight to rediscover.
At home this evening I've read Flying Low, which contains the story Of Wolf And Sheep, which I love to bits, still makes me laugh, and was one of the stories that made me realise that not all slash was crap.
However.
I've just finished reading Rain Dogs.
Go. Buy it.
If you've never read bandfiction before and wonder what all the fuss is about, if you think all slash is crap, even if you don't like any of the bands in it go and buy it RIGHT FUCKING NOW.
The writing makes me smile, it makes me ache inside, it's beautiful and vicious and you don't just feel like you're there watching the characters, you're in them, part of them, breathing and feeling and fucking with them. It's an object lesson in emotion, and pace, and storytelling.
You can have a tale with no title and it can still grab you by the guts and not let you go.
It makes me want to go outside and dance in the rain to music I can hear inside my head. (And it's Novemember, I'm in the UK and it's farking COLD out there.)
The one huge shame?
That she'll never be recognised by the wider writing community, the mainstream publishers and the big critics. Because everyone should read this book and feel bloody humble.
Why are you still here?
Go. Buy it.
NOW.
