Comments | cleolinda: Twenty questions (3)

cleolinda

Twenty questions (3)

Mar 08, 2010 18:23

More Formspring questions. Posted 3/9/10.

( Is your mom as badass as I think she is? )

harry potter, made of fail, writing, house of bark, dolls, fandom, twilight, sherlock holmes, jack the ripper, formspring, movies, books, my mother, my sister, podcasts, m15m, tonner

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robinmc March 10 2010, 03:15:58 UTC

I'm sure lots of people have told you this (hell, I may have at one point), but Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series is fantastic (well, the first three are - I haven't made it past that). The leads are pretty much the anti-Bella and Edward, but just as addictive. Gabaldon taps into the id much like Stephenie Meyer, but in a more visceral (ie they actually have sex and lots of it) way.

So, if you ever have time, I can't recommend Outlander highly enough.

dzurlady March 10 2010, 12:26:34 UTC

werewolves, Greek gods, angels, zombies, fairies (multiple projects on all of those)
Wait, fairies?

evewithanapple March 10 2010, 17:08:33 UTC

it really might have been done more than once

It has- Murder By Decree was made in, in think, 1979, and starred Christopher Plummer as Holmes. My dad loves it, but I snoozed through the second half.

aoi_tsuki1 March 10 2010, 17:50:12 UTC

The first half of Death Note is one of the most superbly written pieces of supernatural crime-thrillery drama you'll ever read; the second half is still the best case of watch-glancing "...Is this over yet?" I've ever encountered. The art's also quite good.

I never got the idea of meeting celebrities, either. The only time I've ever been at an event with one who seemed perfectly comfortable with a bevy of strangers talking to him like old friends was Peter S. Beagle; I s'pose it's been long enough since he wrote The Last Unicorn that he's gotten used to the assumption that knowing someone's work = knowing that person.

SMeyer a "storyteller" *bah* hartlyn March 11 2010, 02:54:26 UTC

Totally agree with you on this one. She has good story ideas (though one could argue that everything she's done has been done before. Even The Host is like Animorphs for adults. Supposedly for adults.) Her plotting and pacing are terrible and her sensibilities juvenile. Thanks for making her characters better than she did via Secret Life.