Do not get me started on his depiction of Georgia or the dramatic scene in the airport that could not possibly have taken place in any incarnation of the Atlanta airport.
Oh, Pacey! You blind idiot. Can't you see she doesn't love you?
Spike ,'Help'
The Great Write Way, Act Three: Where's the gun?
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Ginger - Mar 09, 2010 10:35:37 am PST #3143 of 6693
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Gudanov - Mar 09, 2010 10:50:36 am PST #3144 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
I'm not that far into it yet, it's a pretty sizable book. There is a certain stereotype feel to, well, everything, but I like the way the mystery is being set up when he doesn't wander off.
From everything I've read, a first book this long would be impossible to get picked up, but if I had a dime for every "don't do this" thing I see in published work, I'd have a lot of dimes.
erikaj - Mar 09, 2010 10:53:34 am PST #3145 of 6693
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah.
askye - Mar 09, 2010 4:13:06 pm PST #3146 of 6693
Thrive to spite them
I like the books, but yeah, the author should have researched small town Georgia before writing it.
I've read a bunch of his others and I can't say if he made the same mistakes but the plots are fairly tight and it keeps my interest.
Gudanov - Mar 10, 2010 5:47:05 am PST #3147 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
I'm progressing through chapter 58, and trying not to let things slow down too much.
I have a title for the second book now if I split it into two (chapters 1-34 and chapters 35-62).
Amy - Mar 10, 2010 5:53:52 am PST #3148 of 6693
Because books.
You know, I'm not sure I know the title for this one, Gud. What is it?
Gudanov - Mar 10, 2010 6:00:02 am PST #3149 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
The first book I have titled "The Dead Mountain", still not 100% sure about that one. The second book I have titled "Daughter of my Blood", which I think will stick. If I end up with one book, then I'll have to have a title cage-match.
Amy - Mar 10, 2010 6:37:39 am PST #3150 of 6693
Because books.
Titles are always the hardest thing about a book for me.
Barb - Mar 10, 2010 7:14:46 am PST #3151 of 6693
“Not dead yet!”
I totally bogart song titles for book titles.
Gudanov - Mar 11, 2010 5:59:46 am PST #3152 of 6693
Coding and Sleeping
I had a brief moment of panic last night when I thought I had lost everything I did yesterday, but I figured out that I accidentally saved to a different name. Luckily I figured it out quickly, that's a bad feeling.
I'm still working on 58 but I've gotten past the second scene and I'm ready to plunge into the third wherein the MC has to break some very awkward news to her parents.