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greygirlbeast

"The sky above won't fall down."

Nov 14, 2009 12:50

On Thursday, I sent the proposal for Blood Oranges (working title, and almost certainly not the book's final title) to my agent. And now I'm waiting to hear back from her. I was hoping I'd get her thoughts before the weekend, but, alas, no. So...I wait. If she likes it as is, it will be sent along to my editor at Penguin. If Merrilee says the ( Read more... )

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Comments 8

sovay November 14 2009, 21:40:18 UTC

Has anyone else noticed that Emmerich keeps making the same film over and over and over, and that these films essentially adhere to a formula begun almost forty years ago, with Airport (1970) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972)? The last forty minutes or so of 2012 (the film was probably an hour too long, by the way) might almost be viewed as a cynical, hamfisted remake of George Pal's When World's Collide (1951).

Ty Burr, of the Boston Globe:

I like to imagine that the director Roland Emmerich had a key transformative experience at the age of 7, when a relative visiting from Bavaria accidentally trampled his scale model of the Reichstag. Suddenly a light bulb went on over our young Teuton’s head as he realized: People will pay for this.In what exact sense he may have meant that remains ambiguous, but Emmerich now stands as our premier Hollywood Disastermeister, nuking and zapping historical landmarks in "Independence Day," "The Day After Tomorrow," "Godzilla," and other works of taste and forbearance. He has long since surpassed the ( ... )

greygirlbeast November 14 2009, 22:16:16 UTC

Burr's review is wonderful. I'll have to link to it in the next entry.

"...works of taste and forbearance" indeed!

chris_walsh November 14 2009, 21:57:57 UTC

"Eep" about the close call. Or was it a close call? I'm guessing it at least felt like one.

Think Blood Oranges will be a title eventually, even if it doesn't wind up as the title for this book? Kind of like Harlan Ellison had "Midnight in the Sunken Cathedral" as a title years before he wrote the story for it. (P.S. I very happily watched Dreams With Sharp Teeth this week, thanks to borrowing it from the library. Even in my current tightwad state, I want to buy it and loan it out to people.)

As for 2012, I think I'd prefer That's Armageddon! :

(Here's that clip's URL in case the embedding doesn't worl.)

Not gonna see this flick. I've had almost NO reaction to the ads, except queasy discomfort at what happens to the aircraft carrier, so I know to avoid it.

I will say that Woody Harrelson was hilarious, and if only the film had given him a larger part, it would have been quite a bit more worthwhile.I'm not convinced Emmerich has the right sense of humor to let more of that kind of comedy work in one of his films. I don't think ( ... )

chris_walsh November 14 2009, 22:01:49 UTC

P.S. I'd also prefer Lava Tornado!

greygirlbeast November 14 2009, 22:18:16 UTC

I'm guessing it at least felt like one.

Very much so, yes.

2.5 years of one, a bloody century to another bleedingtom November 14 2009, 22:58:31 UTC

I find your rate of work to be far respectful than yourself. Your works don't follow any trend, so you don't get the convience of merely writing an imitation of a book by merely dropping elements in it that skirt it by copyright lawyers. You don't write kiernan versions of Transformers, or 2012, though I would love to read your apocalypse tale. You sweat over your novels, perhaps a bit less since you fled Atlanta, which always burns. (Insert Sherman jokes here)
You don't pull r.l stine fiction out of the anus of your imagination, and publish on a magazine style of work. Writers that do so risk becoming journalists of imaginary worlds, and are as about as entertaining as CNN.

Re: 2.5 years of one, a bloody century to another ardiril November 15 2009, 00:16:24 UTC

"Writers that do so risk becoming journalists of imaginary worlds"

Wait until you read Under the Dome. Once you tire of playing "From which King novel did Stephen steal this?", Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer become actual minor characters, far more than just correspondents.

criada November 15 2009, 07:47:26 UTC

Just got back from 2012. It was so bad, so gloriously bad. We were planning on watching The Day After Tomorrow in a drunken fit to compare, but I think we won't have to. My physics-degree-bearing roommate spent the whole drive home screaming, "mutating neutrinos?!" over and over. I swear you must be right about the science consultants.