I think I know by now what evil really is

[sovay]

I am evidently not the target audience for Tim Powers' Hide Me Among the Graves (2012), which rushthatspeaks has been reading and describing to me; I think that if one of your central characters is vampire John Polidori, people should always be asking him if he got it from Lord Byron and he should be so tired of having to tell them ("Byron wasn't even a vampire, damn it!") no.

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[starlady]

I have never liked Powers, whether it was "meh" or just "how far can I throw this object to express the degrees of my hatred."

And yes, Polidori should definitely be tired of having to explain that about Byron, because Byron refused to bang him.

[sovay]

I have never liked Powers, whether it was "meh" or just "how far can I throw this object to express the degrees of my hatred."

May I ask? I have a mostly indifferent history with his books, but it's never reached the point of shot put.

And yes, Polidori should definitely be tired of having to explain that about Byron, because Byron refused to bang him.

+1.

I am terribly reminded of Kate Beaton only, I guess, not.

[starlady]

I read The Anubis Gates long ago and was meh; I read On Stranger Tides in 2009 and found it loathsome. Not only did it elevate his typical sexism to a full-on Madonna/whore complex, it also added a healthy does of fatphobia to his usual mix of neologisms and bad research.

[kore]

Yeah, SAME. My reaction from "someone else could have done this so much better" to "OMG NO," typically. If it were a fic I'd be all "Well, it's nice the author is having a good time, but his literary history is wrong/twisted for his plot and this is basically an OC named Byron."