a re-read of "The Hot Zone"
It's been quite a while, but my memory of The Hot Zone is mostly one of irritation. I thought it was poorly written.
Have you read The Coming Plague? I remember it as being much more readable, and more informative.
I am a large, semi-muscular man. I can take it. Don't hide behind Mal 'cause you know he'll shoot it down for you. Tell me.
Wash ,'War Stories'
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."
dcp - Apr 10, 2012 4:57:46 pm PDT #18410 of 28293
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
Ginger - Apr 10, 2012 5:19:06 pm PDT #18411 of 28293
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I think The Coming Plague is the best "we're all going to die" nonfiction book ever. I wish she'd do an update.
Strix - Apr 10, 2012 5:23:49 pm PDT #18412 of 28293
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I will seek out The Coming Plague, then, since I think I remember quite a bit from The Hot Zone.
Listening to the ZombieTech podcast w/her now, and I think I may stay up a leetle late and watch Contagion, since tomorrow is Devoted To Copyediting.
(I know I will end up pubbing this on my blog, but DAMN, I wish I could find someone to pay me for interviews. Someday...)
Polter-Cow - Apr 10, 2012 9:19:30 pm PDT #18413 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Okay, I just read "No Place Like Home," and it's lovely! Liked it much more than "One Hell of a Ride," and now I really want to read "The Flower of Arizona," since the events of that story are mentioned a few times in this one. I think I like this one more because it focuses on Fran, who is way cooler than Jonathan. Plus, Enid Healy is pretty great too. Verity comes from good stock.
le nubian - Apr 11, 2012 2:44:41 am PDT #18414 of 28293
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
How is Stephen King able to complete books so quickly?
erikaj - Apr 11, 2012 5:22:36 am PDT #18415 of 28293
Always Anti-fascist!
dude's a machine and takes only three days off a year.Yes, I read "On Writing"...it was entertaining, but I didn't find much I could use in it. Even he admits the path he followed starting out(writing fiction for skin mags) doesn't really exist anymore.
Connie Neil - Apr 11, 2012 5:34:55 am PDT #18416 of 28293
brillig
I liked "On Writing" for the biographical elements more than the writing advice. His advice wasn't anything revelatory or unique, but his blunt honesty about how fame screwed him up was fascinating. And, of course, the story of The Accident. "I had just been run over by one of my own characters."
edit: I've always loved his essays. His tale of his son's Little League season that took them to the Maine state finals was wonderful. I didn't realize it was him while I was reading it in the New Yorker, till I finally remembered who Owen King was the son of and realized the significance of the state finals allowing "an obscure local author" to throw out the first pitch.
erikaj - Apr 11, 2012 5:39:25 am PDT #18417 of 28293
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah, that was interesting. And I really do enjoy an addiction narrative so I'm always down for junkie stories.
hippocampus - Apr 11, 2012 6:32:40 am PDT #18418 of 28293
not your mom's socks.
John Sargent on DOJ v. Macmillan : [link]
Strix - Apr 11, 2012 8:14:02 am PDT #18419 of 28293
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I like Enid and Fran quite a bit, too. And in the Sparrow Hill Road stories (I'm only halfway done -- work calls) there's a connection, since Rose comes from Buckley Township in the 40's, and refers to babysitting at the Healy house!
I like "On Writing" for its autobio nature, interspersed with thoughts on writing. One thing I like about King is his no BS approach. There's no "THIS is the one true way to write."