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A few questions for anyone bored (or nice) enough to take the time:


Have you ever purchased ebooks (either short story or novel-length)? It doesn't have to be original slash, or gay, or even romance fiction, just in general? --though the rest of these questions will mostly be about teh ghei love.

If you have purchased original slash or gay romantic/erotic fiction, how did you feel the quality compared to original slash/gay/bent fiction that is available for free online? Or just the quality in general? Feel free to babble if you wish. heh heh.

How often do you purchase? (That's a vague question, but it's not like I'm going to graph it or anything. Statistics=no fun.) I'd imagine it depends on reviews or the authors' name recognition. Feel free to go on about that too if you want. :)

Do you go for romance or for smut separately? Do you go to different places for one or the other, or hope for a combo of the two? (Recs also good here)

Do you go to actual slash/smut/gay/romance/small publisher/whatever review websites? (Or do you find the opinions on those websites as varied and non-helpful as I do? --I admit, this question is biased. heh)

Ooh and another question related to that one, how often do you go to Amazon for these purchases vs. the small publishing sites and authors' pages/blogs themselves?



I'm asking a lot. But honestly, maybe I just can't find good review, professional type review sites. I don't think they're looking for what I'm looking for. So maybe I am looking wrong????

Basically just give me your feelings on good online fiction, free or otherwise, and how you find it. Pleeeease.

Thanks!! to anyone who answers. I want to have your babies.

Now I'm a dork and had to watch this movie because I'd already seen "Capote" and wanted to watch another movie basically take on the same subject. Like fanfiction, it is so very easy to tell the exact same story in completely different ways.

For those who don't know, both movies are about Truman Capote, brilliant writer and flaming jackass, investigating the infamous murders of the Clutter family in Kansas in 1959, how he wrote In Cold Blood about it, and basically how he got obsessed with the case/killers.

Both movies deal with the fact that Capote was an incredibly manipulative person, brilliant as I said, but lonely and needy. He bonded with one of the murderers, but how close he bonded with Perry Smith, and why, is really what both movies end up trying to explore.

I like both films. Don't get me wrong."Capote" shows off how dark and detached Capote could be, how he shared that in common with both killers. And "Capote" is cinematically the better film. The more polished. But, what it didn't do was show how clever and charming and witty Capote could be, and yet how all of that was just the act he did to keep people near him, loving him. So in "Infamous" you get Capote being brilliant and unapologetically flaming whether he was in Manhattan or in Kansas (what's the point of trying to hide it, with that voice?) but also being vulnerable and honest when he meets someone who is strangely similiar--Perry Smith.

It's here that I have to mention that Perry Smith is played by Daniel Craig, doing almost what he did with Bond. Someone who responds with violence because it's what they know, but who longs for something better. He could slit your throat or help you buy a kitten. Seriously. And Capote can't help responding to that. He is, after all, a guy who promises secrecy and honesty to his friends and then almost gleefully distorts the truth and what's on or off the record in order to make his story better.

(Which brought up interesting detachment/defense mechanisms in writers, at least to me, how he keeps trying to filter his pain through his characters and stay distant...which only works until Perry calls him on it in the most violent --and hot--- way possible).

And that's another thing...while I don't know how open with his sexuality his friends were, the movie doesn't shy away from it. Nor does it shy from the interesting possibility that "Capote" only suggested, that he fell in love with Perry despite his intentions, and Perry fell in love with him despite knowing Capote was full of shit.

Toby Jones, btw, who plays Capote in this....fuckin' amazing. That's all I can say. This movie had me sort of insanely turned on, and laughing, and then about to cry because I LOVE DOOMED AND TRAGIC GAY LOVE.

*ahem*

All in all, watch them both. Liked "Capote". Loved "Infamous".

And oh yes, did I mention Daniel Craig doing sensitive brute in a wifebeater, all tatted up? mmmm.

"You're in control until you're not."