authors are often crap readers.
Heh. Some of my creative writing professors have been really bad readers. It's like...how can you not know how to read this? Come on! Do it properly!
Actually, I was thinking it would be sort of like a pet. You know, we could...we could name her Trixie, or Miss Kitty Fantastico, or something.
Tara ,'Empty Places'
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."
Polter-Cow - Jul 19, 2005 11:09:07 am PDT #8385 of 10002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Anne W. - Jul 19, 2005 11:11:26 am PDT #8386 of 10002
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
I did, however, just get a Stephen King book from the library.
He's not a bad reader, IMO. He did the Abraham Lincoln (yes, you read that right) bits in Sarah Vowell's "Assasination Vacation" CD.
AV is an excellent book on tape, by the way. Jon Stewart and Brad Bird do some of the reading as well, along with some other people I can't remember at the moment.
Connie Neil - Jul 19, 2005 11:13:44 am PDT #8387 of 10002
brillig
King was also in the TV movie of "The Stand." Just throwing that out there, you know.
beekaytee - Jul 19, 2005 11:14:00 am PDT #8388 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
Heh. Some of my creative writing professors have been really bad readers. It's like...how can you not know how to read this? Come on! Do it properly!
WORD.
And I'm with you all the way on the retconning in book 6. I found myself loving all the ends tying up and wondering what kind of platform JK is building for the final go. So much is explained in the flashbacks, etc , that there aren't many unanswered questions.
I heard early on that JK has conceived the entire universe in one swoop and that she has just been filling it in. That makes a lot of sense, given the progression of the stories and is, whoa, impressive.
Then again, I heard the same thing about George Lucas and Star Wars. See what become of THAT!
beekaytee - Jul 19, 2005 11:16:56 am PDT #8389 of 10002
Compassionately intolerant
"Assasination Vacation"
I'm SO getting that one.
§ ita § - Jul 19, 2005 11:17:18 am PDT #8390 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
King was also in the TV movie of "The Stand." Just throwing that out there, you know.
King's been in many of his movies. If not all.
Kathy A - Jul 19, 2005 11:17:30 am PDT #8391 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
King was also in the TV movie of "The Stand." Just throwing that out there, you know.
Where he almost outacted Molly Ringwald! (Yes, I have Molly-Ringwald-as-Fran issues, especially since they cast the excellent Gary Sinise as Stu Redman opposite her. Love that miniseries even with that miscasting, though.)
Kathy A - Jul 19, 2005 11:29:45 am PDT #8392 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Grr. I was just looking up that Hermann-narrated Alienist at Amazon, and it looks like it's (a) only available in cassette or downloaded form, and (b) is abridged. I have issues with abridged versions of books I enjoy, ever since I heard the two-tape version of Clancy's Sum of All Fears, which was mangled beyond all recognition.
Nutty - Jul 19, 2005 11:38:57 am PDT #8393 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I have somewhere a tape version of Robert Pinsky's Inferno translation, read by four poets (including Pinsky). Of the four, Seamus Heaney was far and away the best, and Pinsky reading his own words was second-best. The other two were eh. I don't imagine all poets are oriented toward the spoken/performed word in their minds, but I imagine more of them are than there are novelists of this type.
(For me, good performance is signalled primarily by wide variation in pitch -- or anyway, a bad performance is usually signalled by near-monotone. I forgive much for a voice that uses pitch to help convey meaning.)
DavidS - Jul 19, 2005 11:40:09 am PDT #8394 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Where he almost outacted Molly Ringwald!
I'm always a bit befuddled by actors who get worse. She was fine as a teenager. I really noticed it on the short lived sitcom Townies where she was completely blown off the screen by then-newcomers Lauren Graham and Jenna Elfman, each blasting megawatts of snark and charm and Molly...not.