What Adrienne Thinks About That

The real question, of course, is why am I up so early??? The scary thing is that not only have I blogged, I also had enough time to do a couple loads of laundry and take a walk. Ella's all freaked out by my productivity.

It's also worth mentioning that the last line is a nod to one of my uber-favorites, "A River Runs Through It" by Norman Maclean. I suppose it could be unintentional, but that would be hard to believe. That last line's pretty famous. If Zusak didn't know it, an editor or agent probably would have and pointed it out. Anyway.

Maybe it's time to stop commenting on this entry, and, I don't know, go to work?

If I did not have to know about 5 am I would be a happier person.

I hate these books.
They just came out with a second book to the Treasure's Trove, which is a book that has clues inside and you have to figure them out. Once you figure them out, you have to physically go to the destination and they have jewels worth thousands of dollars.
I don't know why I hate them (or what it has to do with Adrienne's post) but I HATE THEM!
Plus the book isn't all that good.
And now they came out with number 2, Secrets of the Alchemist Dar. Amazon has their own contest going on, in which you can win a $10,000 ring.
Its INSANE I tell you!

That quote sounds like something out of the HBO show Deadwood, which has dialog that gets in the way of itself at every turn and uses twice the words necessary. I think the writers are trying to approximate how people spoke in the old west, but who really knows how they spoke? I guess we know how they wrote, but how many people write the way they speak, that's a talent. And I really don't think they used the Eff word in every Effing sentance.

James Joyce was probably the most self absorbed, crybaby of a writer in history.We(friends&I,read him in high school--along with his polar(yes,I am using that word in a Freudian way)Hemmingway--another reason males shouldn't be allowed to write.But usually,for difficulty,its Finiigan's Wake(sp?)which is used as the very essence of difficulty.What a drag!And Gosh,its a new century.My generation had to accept the Nazi Germany thing as metaphor for everything.In this world,knowing how many innocent folks Stalin killed,the experiments carried out by our gov't on unknowing victimes,geez--that TOBACCO regularly kills around 400 thousand a year,Uganda,Cambodia,oh just the general killing going on all over,I am so sick of anyone who tries to pretend it is anything but ordinary human behavior.And I hate its romantic/tragic/and/or/metaphoric use in lit from anyone.I guess its just because I've lived longer&seen more of it.It can't be demonstrated that any of that lit does any good and certainly,the bottom line is,might makes right.I guess I'm getting pretty effing windy here.I defend anyones right to publish.And I defend anyones right to call BS what it effing is:-)Spit!Hacking,hacking...spitting again,eff...

Cathy, I didn't even know about these books, but they seem fully very bizzare. I will hate them with you. :) And, of course, book-related rants are always on-topic.

Really, in my experience, children's librarians are much more ready to throw around the F-bombs.

Speaking of dialog, one of the things one of my writing teachers said that has stuck with me is that you write dialog that sounds like people think they sound, on account of you have to get rid of most (or all) of the "ums" and "yeahs" and "likes" that pepper most of our spoken language because it gets really freaking tedious in print. In my experience transcribing interviews, limited as it is, I'd say this is very true.

From the title"Deadwood"(much like "Twin Peaks")I'd assumed the show was a comedy.And the times I watched it the first few seasons I fell on the floor laughing more than once.But,the dialogue was really wearing thin after awhile,what with every other word "effing".Anyone seriously considering old west dialogue would most certainly include accents&words from many countries.I have no objection to the effing word,just its over use.It actually stalled the ridiculous plot more than once.So what was funny at first became just tired.Effing tired.Meanwhile,a very lively Perils-of-Pauline kind of plot does manage to move along.The few new ones I've seen parts of seem to be trying to get off the crutch of repeatedly using the effing word for ratings.There are primary sources from the period,after all.And one's imagination should be informed if one aspires to artistic endeavor.That isn't the case with "Deadwood".It is,simply,dead wood.And it effin ain't afraid to effin say so!Effin westies!