I understand, I think. My first fantasy series was Oz. If you're only familiar with the movie (or even the first book), then it might be hard to understand why I was obsessed with Oz in elementary school. It was actually a strange, richly populated world, especially as portrayed in Ozma of Oz and The Patchwork Girl.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree. People are much better now at keeping track of characters. Think of TV series like Supernatural. Over the years, there have been Hunters, Men of Letters, Demons, Angels, your average monster (good or bad). They recur and no one blinks an eye.
Not in the same class at all. The Star Wars Christmas Special is both terrible and fun to watch. This WoT thing is terrible and boring.
With a lot of work and time. They'd also have to account for fabric composition.
Thank you for the correction and information. :) I do think he got bogged down in his story, though, and he did end up telling the story of a world war, whatever his intentions.
This is the key: "...Game of Thrones, which I view as a nice show that bears a striking resemblance to some books I love" Multiple characters would be condensed into single representative characters from each nation, and they would be secondary characters only meant to show how annoying it is for small town heroes to…
Not to compare his writing with Dickens, but Dickens was incredibly dense and detailed and his books make great movies. Most of the written detail are visuals, some of the branches and characters can be condensed. At least one of the books can scrapped all together, any meaningful events merging with the book before…
I don't think it was a choice - whatever the "industry" believes. He wrote and spoke about the Eastern inspired series he wanted to start, but couldn't because WoT was in the way. It was more a compulsion - the need to follow every creek that branched off the river. He wanted to tell a story about a world war (West…
Bandersnatch is a great word, but it would be more accurate to call it a Red Eagle. It sounds like a faux military maneuver, so it would work. "That was Red Eagle" or "they Red Eagled it".
It will never work. The software will project the fabric "tapering just so" because that's the image it has programmed. It won't account for the way the design looks on an actual person's unique shape. We've all tried on clothing that's supposed look a certain way, but it doesn't on us because we're too busty, too…
I can't believe I reversed that. :) Yeah, that's who I meant. But, now I'm just confused because I thought his books were firmly in fantasy, even though they have a literary style.
Is slipstream primarily written to appeal to literary readers? What makes that different than a really good science fiction novel or a real great fantasy novel.
So that's why my brother was posting "parents have the right to choose" vaccination messages on Facebook yesterday. I assume it's a talking point and Rush Limbaugh was going on about it as well.
Your dad is an evil clown. Sorry.
If that was mid-metamorphosis, I'd be happy. I'm imagining that the original doll has closed eyes and a closed mouth until it's possessed by evil forces - then boom: "What big eyes and teeth you have, Bozo."
They're making the Annabelle mistake. To suspend belief, we have to belief that most people would find the doll harmless, but they've intentionally given the doll scary features - very real looking eyeballs with black lines over them, matted hair, and upper and lower teeth in a grimacing smile.
Some atheists do suffer from an overactive faith region of the brain. You can see it in people like Hitchens who is a point-for-point doppelganger of, say, Pat Buchanan. The main POV shared between them? If you don't agree with them, you are literally ruining everything. Literally ruining the world.
We're supposed to be safe in our own houses, so we have a long memory for the ones that were closer to flytraps than havens.
I was there at the beginning, too. Well, late 80's when desktops were being mainstreamed into offices as a "do it all" device.