billytea, isn't it fabulous? What did you think of the ending?
I thought it was a marvellous book. But I don't think I can consider it from any distance. It was too close to how I feel about my own situation.
Cordelia: You're him. You're Angel's son. Connor: It's not like I got to choose.
'Hell Bound'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
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."
billytea - Oct 23, 2004 7:56:20 pm PDT #6228 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
§ ita § - Oct 27, 2004 11:51:12 am PDT #6229 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Example synopsis of the revolutionary heroine:
the story of a Special Forces captain who must figure out who is cloning government agents
Now, what do you have to do to that (in addition to adding a love interest) to make it in the romance genre, not the action genre.
Because if it were a story about a male Special Forces captain (who usually ended up getting the girl), it wouldn't be romance. It would be Clive Cussler thriller.
Susan W. - Oct 27, 2004 11:57:00 am PDT #6230 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Part of it is that balance between the romance and action/suspense portions of the story, but also it's because they're published by Harlequin/Silhouette and other romance publishers and shelved as romance.
Jesse - Oct 27, 2004 7:26:22 pm PDT #6231 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I'm about done with a book that might have some crossover appeal: Good News, Bad News, by David Wolstencroft. He's the creator of Spooks/MI-5. It's fun, although even if I didn't know he was a tv guy, there's a lot of tv in it -- it opens with an ultra-dramatic teaser, and then flashes back to the build-up.
Polter-Cow - Oct 28, 2004 11:59:54 am PDT #6232 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
New Hannibal Lecter novel coming to a bookstore near you, and then a theater, of course.
Consuela - Oct 28, 2004 12:52:38 pm PDT #6233 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Jesse, that sounds like a lot of fun.
(and slashy)
I'm so corrupted.
Jesse - Oct 28, 2004 3:51:05 pm PDT #6234 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I wouldn't say it's slashy in the implementation, but that's me. YSMV.
JoeCrow - Oct 28, 2004 5:55:56 pm PDT #6235 of 10002
"what's left when you take biology and sociology out of the picture?" "An autistic hermaphodite." -Allyson
Oh, for God's sake, Harris. Let It Go. Didn't Hannibal wreck the character enough for you? It did for me. Argh.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 29, 2004 5:22:12 am PDT #6236 of 10002
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
New Hannibal Lecter novel coming to a bookstore near you, and then a theater, of course.
Given where they left Clarice in the book vs. the movie, I think any film version is going to be in name only.
Jim - Oct 29, 2004 5:38:34 am PDT #6237 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
It's a prequel, so cue more embarrassing pony-tail action from Gammon Hopkins.