Talk to me!

[puddingcat]

Talk to me, please! I'm going mad with boredom here - I can only do so much "researching potential targets" before I get distracted and end up looking at second-hand cars instead of Toyota's corporate website.

Amazon has decided (on the basis of buying WK) that I have appallingly bad taste. The synopsis of its top recommendation reads as follows:

Until the Full Moon
Vol 1
Marlo has a problem. On the night of the full moon, this half-werewolf, half-vampire undergoes a mysterious and terrifying transformation: He turns into a girl. Desperate for a cure, his parents call on Doctor Vincent, a long time family friend. But Marlo wants to keep his condition secret from Vincent's son, the vampire playboy David. Unfortunately, the secret gets out, and a new problem surfaces: David is interested in Marlo's female form! If a remedy can't be found, their parents believe the next best solution is marriage - a marriage between Marlo and David!

Vol 2
Who would have thought that there was anything worse than changing into a woman on nights of the full moon? Marlo certainly didn't. But now his engagement to David Vincent, the handsome skirt-chasing vampire, has been jeopardized by threats from the past. When one of David's former flames sends for him, begging for help, she neglects to include all the details. then a glass of "special" wine causes some childish complications. And to make matters worse, it seems that David's father has a few secrets of his own that may very well tear David and Marlo apart. Can Marlo and David overcome these pitfalls, or is their love doomed to fail?

Gosh.

Comments

[pink-weasel.livejournal.com]

Amazon currently suggests that because I've been looking at Cliff CD's and Knitting books I might like an album by The Killers. Amazon once emailed me an suggested I buy a DVD of You've Got Mail for my beloved. Oh thank goodness I asked Mr Weasel if it was what he wanted before I bought it as I might have been made to eat it!

I'm bored too, I'm copy & pasting hotel prices out of a spreadsheet into a database and I've got another three or so weeks of it left to do.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I think Cliff CDs might be almost as bad as were-girls and vampires called "David".

[phil-girl.livejournal.com]

I agree its not a very 'vampirey' name. Nor is Kevin.

Those books sound atrocious.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

So atrocious, I'm (almost) tempted to see what the first one's like. Except I'm aware I'd *never* be able to sell it on again.

[pink-weasel.livejournal.com]

Order it in from your local library.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Oooh! And I ordered this instead of bad manga! I shall bring it next weekend, if it's arrived by then :)

[pink-weasel.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Yay to the knitting book!

I love vampire chick lit. But I'd never tell anyone that!

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

It's a good thing you didn't write it down in an open LJ post, then!

[pink-weasel.livejournal.com]

Yup, that would be a really embarassing thing to have done.

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

Yeesh! I'm glad I'm not Marlo, that's all I can say! I could deal with being a half-werewolf, half-vampire, but turning into a girl??? No thankyou! :P

Well my Amazon recommendations are currently a load of classical music CDs and Dante's Divine Comedy.

*smugness*

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I want to know why he's called a were *wolf* if he turns into a *girl* on the full moon. Surely he should be a were *girl*?

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

I thought he was a werewolf as well as a weregirl, no? Mind you, how could he be? He's too busy turning into a girl to turn into a wolf?

Unless he turns into a female wolf? He's a Were-Bitch! LOL

Either way, he must be a very confused young man. When the hell does he find time to be a vampire?

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

He must be very well-organised, or have a very full Filofax.

Maybe he's a vampire on the nights when there *isn't* a full moon, a wolf on the days either side of the FM, and a girl on the night itself? I'm not sure what he is during the other days, though.

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

How the hell does he find clothes to fit?

Unless he turns into a very flat-chested girl with no arse...

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

The is manga. He'll be incredibly feminine before, then need skyhooks and scaffolding after.

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

Ah, so being a manga character, "a very flat-chested girl with no arse" will be what he looks like when he's male! LOL

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

...And that's why I like manga!

Well, that and the excessively high levels of sheer insanity in the plots.

[munchkinott.livejournal.com]

I think I've read that HP/Buffy crossover. O.o It's amazing how far Find & Replace will get you up the publishing ladder. O.O

*checks her Amazon.co.uk recommendations*

Umm, don't hate me but I'm getting a shitload of Richard Armitage DVDs, a 12" Cyberman, lots and lots of scary maths books and a few books on Frank Whittle & Jet Engines back in my results. O.o Though, weirdly, they only ever send me 'you might like' e-mails for stuff I've already bought from them. *scratches head*

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I only have 5 recs. I forgot my old password and the account I used to use is totally dead, so I had to set up a new one. I've only made one order, so I suppose Amazon does have *some* sort of excuse.

Mind you, what happened to the "See more recommendations" button?

[munchkinott.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, I think it must be Amazon's way of punishing you then. *nods firmly*

The 'See more recs' button is now a text link under the 'Recommended for you' paragraph on the main Amazon page when you're logged in.

[nannyo.livejournal.com]

Hello you, I too am bored bored bored. Do you think this is the mid-afternoon lull? Or is this Nicola's february lull?

That recommendation sounds alarmingly badfic like. I am quite tempted...
N.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Um.
I might have caved in and added it to the order.

[emungere.livejournal.com]

a glass of "special" wine causes some childish complications

...I don't know what that actually means, but it sounds an awful lot like he got pregnant from a glass of wine. Oh dear. Oh! Or chibified. Yes, that probably makes more sense. For a given value of "sense."

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Ah, I read it as meaning he was turned into a child. Didn't one of Watari's sex-change potions do something similar in YnM?

Anyway, it was only £4.50 so I added it to the order I guess I'll find out soon :)

[fire-kitten.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna have to ask to borrow this - it sounds awful

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

The story itself can't *possibly* be worse than Weiss Kreuz (which I'm *still* not tired of, despite its almightly shortcomings and cracktastic plotholes).

I'd ask, "How bad can it be?", but I think the universe would see that as a challenge :)

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

And I thought Underworld was contrived...

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

*Nothing* is contrived next to the plots in manga!

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

Who cares if it was contrived, it featured Kate Beckinsale's latex-clad arse! :D

Now if only her arse was a bit bigger, it would probably be the best film ever! LOL

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

You're a man to my own heart. ;o)

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Shape is more important than size, and you may quote me out of context on tat :p

(I would use an appropriate icon, but for some reason LJ has signed me out.)

[pmoodie.livejournal.com]

I couldn't agree more! Shape is definitely more important than size where the female posterior is concerned.

But I still think Kate's could do with being a wee bit bigger in relation to the rest of her. :)