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GoT s4...episode 1 and Wed Reading Meme...
Apr. 9th, 2014 09:17 pm1. Enjoyed the first episode of Game of Thrones - Season 4 - rather better than the books in some respects. And it's quite different. Actually at this point, the television series and the books are no longer that close in plot. The TV series took a few left hand turns.
I vaguely remember reading on GRRM's blog several years back that he saw the series as a way of fixing a few mistakes in plotting that he regretted in the books. Apparently he felt that he may have written a few characters into a corner, and was struggling to find a way of getting them out of it? (My memory of it is vague and don't feel like hunting it down.) The tv series adaptation provided another path.
If that's the case? I sort of agree.
( spoilers for first episode of GOT, S4 )
2. Wed Reading Meme
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Question? When you read - do you stick with one author you like, or jump around or does it depend?
For me? It depends. I'll read a series - if I like it. But it's unlikely I'll read other books by the same author. Often I've found highly prolific writers get really lazy or get really lazy editors, can't decide which. I remember reading a lot of Stephen King at one stage - mainly because I liked his writing style and focus on character to drive story. Neil Gaiman frustrates me - I want to love his books, because I find the writer adorable, and his books deal with interesting things - but more often then not, I find them sort of boring and my attention wanders. The writing is beautiful..but too much pretty prose, not enough character development or witty banter. Gaiman isn't a master at dialogue, description, dialogue...and his lead characters often feel like cyphers.
Spoke to a co-worker - who mainly reads Sidney Sheldon. She adores Sidney Sheldon. I'd think she'd run out eventually.
And as a writer myself...I find the idea that readers stick to just one author, off-putting. Mainly because I'm not a serial writer. I prefer to write novels about different characters and stories, which are not connected. Of course I haven't found a way of getting published either...so it hardly matters, does it? Plus, I admittedly have been known to binge read books by a handful of writers whose writing style and story-telling style I love. For example: JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis,
Anne McCaffrey, Dorothy Dunnett's Chronicles of Lymond, Minette Walters (stopped after four books, her early ones are great - never could get into the later ones), and recently Sherry Thomas, Courtney Milan...and Meredith Duran.
Bought three books for my neice - for her 10th birthday. They are:
1. The Girl Who Circumvented Fairy Land in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherinne Valente
2. Flora and Ulysses - about a girl who saves a magical talking squirrel
3. The Kids Book of Chess - medieval illustrations - figured my brother could play it with her
I vaguely remember reading on GRRM's blog several years back that he saw the series as a way of fixing a few mistakes in plotting that he regretted in the books. Apparently he felt that he may have written a few characters into a corner, and was struggling to find a way of getting them out of it? (My memory of it is vague and don't feel like hunting it down.) The tv series adaptation provided another path.
If that's the case? I sort of agree.
( spoilers for first episode of GOT, S4 )
2. Wed Reading Meme
( Read more... )
Question? When you read - do you stick with one author you like, or jump around or does it depend?
For me? It depends. I'll read a series - if I like it. But it's unlikely I'll read other books by the same author. Often I've found highly prolific writers get really lazy or get really lazy editors, can't decide which. I remember reading a lot of Stephen King at one stage - mainly because I liked his writing style and focus on character to drive story. Neil Gaiman frustrates me - I want to love his books, because I find the writer adorable, and his books deal with interesting things - but more often then not, I find them sort of boring and my attention wanders. The writing is beautiful..but too much pretty prose, not enough character development or witty banter. Gaiman isn't a master at dialogue, description, dialogue...and his lead characters often feel like cyphers.
Spoke to a co-worker - who mainly reads Sidney Sheldon. She adores Sidney Sheldon. I'd think she'd run out eventually.
And as a writer myself...I find the idea that readers stick to just one author, off-putting. Mainly because I'm not a serial writer. I prefer to write novels about different characters and stories, which are not connected. Of course I haven't found a way of getting published either...so it hardly matters, does it? Plus, I admittedly have been known to binge read books by a handful of writers whose writing style and story-telling style I love. For example: JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis,
Anne McCaffrey, Dorothy Dunnett's Chronicles of Lymond, Minette Walters (stopped after four books, her early ones are great - never could get into the later ones), and recently Sherry Thomas, Courtney Milan...and Meredith Duran.
Bought three books for my neice - for her 10th birthday. They are:
1. The Girl Who Circumvented Fairy Land in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherinne Valente
2. Flora and Ulysses - about a girl who saves a magical talking squirrel
3. The Kids Book of Chess - medieval illustrations - figured my brother could play it with her