palace of winds

I just finished listening to You Suck: A Love Story, by Christopher Moore, and it? Rocked. I particularly loved Susan Bennett’s narration; I’ve never listened to one of her audiobooks before, but she was completely perfect for this one. I can’t imagine it any other way. Moore makes all sorts of clever little choices for his vampire mythos, and the whole thing is fun and funny. And there’s a little Q&A with Moore at the end of it, from which I discovered that You Suck is actually a sequel — which explains why I felt like it dropped the reader into the middle of the action much more than most books I’ve read. I really liked that, though — you don’t feel adrift or anything, just that there’s a bit of past history you’ve missed, the details of which aren’t important. It trusts you as a reader to put things together a little, and I always like feeling respected as a reader. Though I do want to read Blood-sucking Fiends (the — prequel? is it still called a prequel even if it was written first?).

And entirely unrelated, for anyone (Bryce) who uses a feed reader/consolidator thingie (like Netvibes, which I highly recommend by the way), I finally posted some pony pictures, but I’ve made them private (as they’re not my ponies, really), so you’ve got to come to the actual site to see them. And be registered.