Read, read, read...

[uberreiniger]

Only a few pages have been turned since my post on my thoughts on Kushiel's Chosen and already the plot is thickening and getting better. I'd forgotten how cool a herione Phedre is when she's actually doing something. It's only when she is idle with free time on her hands and nothing to do save pour out inner monologue that she starts sounding like the most annoying Popular Girl from your high school class. You know, the one that wouldn't talk to you?

Authors are always getting told to write about what they know? Kind of makes you wonder how J.C. comes up with all the... things that happen in the Kushiel series. Actually, according to her it all just came about because she's a huge angelology and Rennaisance geek. The rest *gasp* I think she just made it up! It's nice to see an author who can confidently write about what they know, yet can do so without making themselves the protagonist. I am starting to love Orson Scott Card, but does every main character have to be a Mormon with subplots that involve his church? You all know I love Stephen King, but how many novelists can the state of Maine have? Given that all his novels take place in the same "world," so to speak, I think it would be interesting if he wrote a story in which all his writer protagonists went to a writer's conference together...

Maybe in order to avoid the cliche I shall have no choice but to embrace it. I will write a novel about a lazy security guard who plays roleplaing games.

Hmm... Make that a handsome security guard...

Comments

[cherith.livejournal.com]

Did you know that Card CAN write about something else, and well? I didn't, until I checked out his mini-series on women from the Bible. They're very very well done, and from me, that's saying a lot. The two I've found are Sarah & Rebekah.

Oh, and if you ever finish the Kushiel's stuff (and still like it), you might find the Black Jewels trilogy by Anne Bishop worth reading.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I'll check it out. Thanks!

[gothicbeauty21.livejournal.com]

I can't believe you're having such a hard time getting into it...I devoured each of the books in about 2-3 days each.

[gothicbeauty21.livejournal.com]

Oh, for Halloween last year I dressed up in Phedre's costume as Mara. It was fun, but it definately would have looked better on the body I have now vs. the body I had then...and it'd DEFINATELY look better on the body I'll have NEXT year... :p

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I like the Mara costume a lot. You could always just hire your own Favrielle to keep up with your costuming needs :)

[gothicbeauty21.livejournal.com]

I have one -- her name is Mom.


She's the one that helped me sew my costume last year ;)


This year i think I'll be Melisande...now if I could just get some blue contacts...

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Will you have a Phedre on a leash complete with see-thru dress?

[gothicbeauty21.livejournal.com]

As awesome as that would be...I doubt it.

I'd not be able to keep my hands off her ;)

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Just try not to sell her to any Vikings, m'kay?

[gothicbeauty21.livejournal.com]

Oh hell no...I'd keep her locked up in a pleasure chamber.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

It's not the books' fault. I am by nature a very slow reader. Most of my friends can finish a book they love in a week tops. It takes me much longer.

[kakita-shisumo.livejournal.com]

Make that a handsome security guard...

Co-worker of yours or something?

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I'll let the icon speak for me.

[ysathora.livejournal.com]

I am starting to love Orson Scott Card, but does every main character have to be a Mormon with subplots that involve his church?

I think that's just Lost Boys. He openly admits to making that one too personal.

[freyjas-child.livejournal.com]

Ah yay someone else who enjoys this series! In a way I'm hoping it's over but I'd also like to hear more of Phedre if J.C. is up to it.
Though I did feel the story was flagging a little towards the end of the trilogy. I did though enjoy it enough to feel it worth adding to my collections of books rather then borrowing from a friend.
Do you read Bernard Corwell at all?

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Well she's just published a new novel in the series, so it looks like the Kushiel tradition is alive and well. Not familiar with Corwell. Tell me a little.

[freyjas-child.livejournal.com]

Ah hot damn! I hadn't been to her site in a while so I'd no idea there was a new one about to be out. It's a shame though that I'm going to have to wait till it's out in paperback as hardcover is too much for me to afford>.>

As to Bernard Cronwell he's a fiction history(is that the right term?) writer. He's done a fairly well known series on King Aurthur.
I'm presently working my way through his Saxon series. Which is about the first king of a united England, Alfred The Great. It's told through anothers eyes but I found it to be very compelling.

So those are his two series that I know fairly well and enjoy.

[wolfiegirl.livejournal.com]

You know what? I've been thinking about jumping back into the writing game--something I haven't done seriously for the last 3 years I've been homeschooling.

Reading posts like this one reminds me of that energy you get when you really, really have that drive to write.

And I bet your handsome security guard could have some decent adventure. ;)

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't write, it's such a huge part of me now. If both my arms were cut off I'd be learning to write with a pen in my teeth. There's really no feeling quite like it, (writing, that is, although I'm sure having no arms feels unique too.)

I've often thought my weird adventures at the haunted factory I used to guard would make an excellent basis for a horror novel.

[wolfiegirl.livejournal.com]

I'm just hoping that when the kiddo goes back to school, I re-find that fire within myself to write again.

I think you can probably drudge up something from the haunted factory that would rock!

Hell, half of my published works drudge up the tiny Texas town I was born in. They're hicks, simple, yet complicated, but so easy to write, because I lived it.

Gotta work with what you know.

[megiloth.livejournal.com]

I will write a novel about a lazy security guard who plays roleplaing games

I'm detecting a little favoritism here.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

You're right. I should spotlight a few other characters to give the reader a change of pace. I was thinking about writing in this drunken homophobic ex-Marine for comic relief...