Vampires and Superheroes
Nov. 26th, 2007 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alanajoliMy friend Jeff just posted over on his lj a great, and currently unused, lead in to a vampire story. It's a Chicago setting that, I admit, sounds absolutely perfect for this kind of thing.
(Jeanienne? Ilona? You guys out there? I thought of you right away...)
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In other news, I'm a facebook junkie, and I've added the new Superheroes application to my list of procrastination techniques. Which reminded me today that I didn't ever blog about Soon I Will Be Invincible, a Superhero novel that reads like literary fiction. It took me about 100 pages to get into it, but once I did, man, what a read! I'm glad I stuck it out (based on a friend's recommendation). The narration is first person present tense, with flashbacks, from two different perspectives: the main supervillain and one of our heroes, a cyborg who doesn't remember her past. It has none of the hokey bits that I found both endearing and occasionally overboard in Karma Girl--it takes itself seriously, but not so seriously that it's not fun. And once the action starts, it's hard to put it down!
Scarily enough, I found myself identifying with the Supervillain more than I wanted to, which either says something about Austin Grossman's writing or something about my personal character. I prefer to think the former.
(Jeanienne? Ilona? You guys out there? I thought of you right away...)
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In other news, I'm a facebook junkie, and I've added the new Superheroes application to my list of procrastination techniques. Which reminded me today that I didn't ever blog about Soon I Will Be Invincible, a Superhero novel that reads like literary fiction. It took me about 100 pages to get into it, but once I did, man, what a read! I'm glad I stuck it out (based on a friend's recommendation). The narration is first person present tense, with flashbacks, from two different perspectives: the main supervillain and one of our heroes, a cyborg who doesn't remember her past. It has none of the hokey bits that I found both endearing and occasionally overboard in Karma Girl--it takes itself seriously, but not so seriously that it's not fun. And once the action starts, it's hard to put it down!
Scarily enough, I found myself identifying with the Supervillain more than I wanted to, which either says something about Austin Grossman's writing or something about my personal character. I prefer to think the former.
