All I know of Gabaldon is that she loathes fanficcers and based Jaime on a Doctor Who companion.
Zoe: Planet's coming up a mite fast. Wash: That's just cause, I'm going down too quick. Likely crash and kill us all. Mal: Well, that happens, let me know.
'Shindig'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Connie Neil - Jan 31, 2011 2:00:07 pm PST #13755 of 28286
brillig
Laga - Jan 31, 2011 2:30:04 pm PST #13756 of 28286
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
She also said that Bella sounds like (in her words) a total drip.
smart girl.
Barb - Jan 31, 2011 2:34:02 pm PST #13757 of 28286
“Not dead yet!”
All I know of Gabaldon is that she loathes fanficcers and based Jaime on a Doctor Who companion.
Well, to be fair, if I had a fanficcer come up to me at a signing, tell me what I'd done wrong in my work and that their work, based on my creation was better and that they'd fixed the "mistakes," I probably wouldn't be too predisposed to care for them either.
(And this has happened to her more than once. Along with the fanficcers who tell her they fixed her work and could she introduce them to her agent and/or publisher.)
flea - Jan 31, 2011 2:44:55 pm PST #13758 of 28286
information libertarian
I have to say I was completely immune to alleged addictiveness of Twilight. I forced myself to read the first 75 pages (I was assigned it for book club at work) and gave up. I hate first-person narrators, and first-person annoyingly drippy teenaged girl narrators, especially.
Anne W. - Jan 31, 2011 2:56:31 pm PST #13759 of 28286
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I have to say I was completely immune to alleged addictiveness of Twilight. I forced myself to read the first 75 pages
You made it 25 pages further than I did, and I gave it two tries. I just couldn't get into it.
Strix - Jan 31, 2011 2:58:29 pm PST #13760 of 28286
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
A book club at work picked Twilight?! Are you fucking SERIOUS?!
My English teacher heart just cracked a little.
Amy - Jan 31, 2011 3:02:44 pm PST #13761 of 28286
Because books.
I read about fifty pages and put it down, and months later someone convinced me to finish it. I did, but it was sort of a train wreck "is this really happening?!" thing. I read about three pages of the next one, and I just couldn't do it.
I figured Cleolinda would tell me anything I needed to know about the plot.
erikaj - Jan 31, 2011 3:06:20 pm PST #13762 of 28286
Always Anti-fascist!
I think my rule would be "Fic what you like, but don't be an asshole." and get your own damn agent.
Atropa - Jan 31, 2011 3:06:45 pm PST #13763 of 28286
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I figured Cleolinda would tell me anything I needed to know about the plot.
This is why I still haven't read Breaking Dawn. I didn't even bother picking up the copy that was at the thrift store the other weekend.
erikaj - Jan 31, 2011 3:08:49 pm PST #13764 of 28286
Always Anti-fascist!
Breaking Dawn is...well, it's icky. And I read books with dismemberments.