It's All About Perception

[annuin]

Over on a book community recently someone asked for recommendations for zombie books (because they're doing a course in school/college about zombies in popular culture -- how cool is that!). Someone actually recommended Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series, because Anita's a necromancer who raises zombies for a living.

Right.

Now, I've read most of the Anita Blake series (though with all the plotless sex0r that's in there these days I'm slower and a lot more reluctant to pick up the new ones), and to call the books zombie books is a huge stretch. Even with the early books, back when Anita had a semblance of a career that didn't involve shagging, raising the dead wasn't exactly something she did all that often, or that took more than a few pages at most.

Anita Blake books zombie books indeed, pfft!

Comments

[anachronaut.livejournal.com]

I didn't realize there were zombie books.

[tanthe.livejournal.com]

Yup. It's not as populated a genre as vampires, or even werewolves I guess, but it exists, much like zombie movies.

I have one zombie book, called The Zombie Survival Guide, which is just that, a how-to for recognising a zombie infestation, and how and where to best survive it and protect yourself. It's entertaining reading.

[illiana-galean.livejournal.com]

Long Horn, Big Shaggy by Steve Vernon is definately a zombie book. A bizarre comedic horror western thing, but chock full of zombies...and zombie heads.

[pylaydia.livejournal.com]

Although I'm a bit late on this, I'd have to agree. Only the early books really touched on Anita's careers in any depth and things went down hill in the series after Obsidian Butterfly. It's a bit sad really