hate the line of work, you may, but at least you're getting paid now *hugs* I'll let the housemates know you approve of the Assassins Apprentice line - I know at least one of them has read the lot.
"Regarding "A Song of Ice and Fire": I'm giving up. It's boring. It's dull. It exists only to make you buy the next book *not* because it's any good, but because the individual books are not self-contained. As much as people object to The Wheel of Time (hi Fergal!), there is a level of resolution in each book"
I think the Fire & Ice books are beautifully written and bring out the base bluntness of the situation - there is little flowery language to over-dramatise the situation.
For (a very mish-mashed) example: Where Farsee uses "I watched the tide of death rise to inundate the little town"; Fire & Ice uses "Of the fishing village, nothing remained but cold ashes that stank when it rained" - which is far more powerful imagry.
The former is poetic, but detracts from the scene - murder is hardly that beautiful; whereas the latter is straight and to the point - I can almost smell the ash (although that may be my burning cheese-on-toast).
Just my thoughts on it all, not that you asked :-D
< For (a very mish-mashed) example: Where Farsee uses "I watched the tide of death rise to inundate the little town"; Fire & Ice uses "Of the fishing village, nothing remained but cold ashes that stank when it rained" - which is far more powerful imagry
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As comics go, you can get away with having several short stories set within a single collective background. Hell, I can live with several movies within the same background.
But not several stories within the same movie. I don't pay for a novel to read a colletion of short stories.
As for the script itself, I found it dull, cliché (and not in a good way: I expect film Noir to be cliché :P), and predictable.
I disliked the way it bounced around genres, going from 'corrupt cop' to 'superhero' (the 3rd story, with the guy who was in love the blonde, and was practically indestructable), to 'grumpy old cop'. The movie didn't combine genres, which is fine, but the different stories were all played in a different genre. Given the shared background, this jarred in a big way.
Wohoo someone else who agrees with me on song of fire and ice! yay! This has led to many arguments with me and rob, assassins apprentice is fantastic just finished it and wanna get second book now to see what happens. i still aint seen 1st series of 4400 ah well rob wanted it for christmas so i got it for him and will see it at some point im sure :-)
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I'll let the housemates know you approve of the Assassins Apprentice line - I know at least one of them has read the lot.
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Heretic. Burn the witch!!!
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Condense into a single novel.
*Now* there's a story worth reading, in which the author gets to the god damn point within my lifetime ( ... )
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For (a very mish-mashed) example: Where Farsee uses "I watched the tide of death rise to inundate the little town"; Fire & Ice uses "Of the fishing village, nothing remained but cold ashes that stank when it rained" - which is far more powerful imagry.
The former is poetic, but detracts from the scene - murder is hardly that beautiful; whereas the latter is straight and to the point - I can almost smell the ash (although that may be my burning cheese-on-toast).
Just my thoughts on it all, not that you asked :-D
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As a movie, it was crap.
As comics go, you can get away with having several short stories set within a single collective background. Hell, I can live with several movies within the same background.
But not several stories within the same movie. I don't pay for a novel to read a colletion of short stories.
As for the script itself, I found it dull, cliché (and not in a good way: I expect film Noir to be cliché :P), and predictable.
I disliked the way it bounced around genres, going from 'corrupt cop' to 'superhero' (the 3rd story, with the guy who was in love the blonde, and was practically indestructable), to 'grumpy old cop'. The movie didn't combine genres, which is fine, but the different stories were all played in a different genre. Given the shared background, this jarred in a big way.
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