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greygirlbeast

"There's a dark time; this is a dark life."

Jul 08, 2010 12:49

My last entry before Readercon 21The past two days have been hell here in Providence. The temperature hit 101F on Tuesday (a record for the date), and wasn't much better yesterday. We've had to stay out of the House as much as possible, trying to stay cool. It is an old house, this House, and it is made to hold in heat in cold winters. It also ( Read more... )

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fusijui July 8 2010, 22:41:55 UTC

Have a great time at the con! No -- the GREATEST time at the con.

I wouldn't sweat the preorder/Amazon business. The people who were interested enough to preorder are, I'm willing to bet, less drooling jerks than Amazon are. They're not going to get spooked off and not buy the book because of Amazon's asshattery.

kurtmulgrew July 8 2010, 23:51:13 UTC

I am one of the biggest fans of The Avatar: The Last Airbender and I thought the movie was pretty good considering that they had to compress about 9 hours of the show down into less than 2.
And they used the original pronuciations of their names instead of the show's.

chris_walsh July 9 2010, 02:57:58 UTC

Said without having seen either the film or TV version of The Last Airbender, and as someone who runs hot and cold on Shyamalan but wants him to do better than this: I really feel he should try directing another writer's script at least once, like how Terry Gilliam stretched by filming Richard LaGravenese's script for The Fisher King.

Also, I wonder how much writing/rewriting he did this time; he usually rewrites a lot (it wasn't until the 10th draft of The Sixth Sense that he realized what was really up with Dr. Crowe, and he wrote more drafts after that). You might find interesting the book The Man Who Heard Voices: How M. Night Shyamalan Risked His Career On a Fairy Tale. It's about his process making Lady in the Water, which he also rewrote like mad before he shot it (and re-edited after a lot of people close to him had to tell him that they "didn't get it" at first). Reasonably detailed portrait of what Shyamalan is like, too. I reviewed itI'm trying to have thoughts related to people's massively negative reactions to the ( ... )

hair! and amazon email... miss_misc July 9 2010, 18:58:25 UTC

Just FYI, I got the email from amazon about The Ammonite Violin and Others and it did not seem to be threatening to cancel my order, thankfully. In case you are curious, here's what the notification looked like ( ... )