Natalie L Sin has a cool post about some God like things she has done as a writer... And being a Goddess (ahem!) myself, I thought I'd steal the idea and do a top ten of my own evil and strange deeds. All fictional of course.
10. Stopped zombies going to the Oscars.
9. Sent a bunch of senile seniors to the moon.
8. Ran down a giant chicken.
7. Threw a bunch of dead zombie Dolly Parton impersonators out of a plane.
6. Nuked my home town.
5. Dismantled a homicidal robot.
4. Removed the face of a serial killer.
3. Flown half-way across the U.S. on a neon sign.
2. Turned a kid into a paper doll.
1. Stopped time.
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Looking for Alaska is John Green's first book (his second, An Abundance of Katherines, shall be reviewed forthwith). Looking for Alaska is a rather heartbreaking story. There is, of course, a boy and a girl, but there's also a boarding school and some alcohol and a suitcase labeled "COFFEE TABLE" and many last words. Miles Halter (the boy) goes to boarding school and meets Alaska (the girl) and a bunch of cool stuff happens, none of which I will tell you about, because I'm cruel. Then a Bad Thing happens, also which I will not tell you about.
Looking for Alaska is divided into two parts-- before and after-- and the chapters are named accordingly (a month before, two days before, etc). This gives the whole book a sense of inevitability. There is a Bad Thing that is about to happen, and you can see it coming, but there is nothing whatsoever that you can do about it. Of course, there is never anything that you can do to stop something that happens in a book, unless you are the author of the book, or you have magical powers, but Looking for Alaska really drives the point home. The entire first 3/4 of the book is just building up to the Bad Thing, just waiting for it to happen. And then, BAM. Bad Thing. And it hurts your soul, believe me.
Now, look at the picture of the cover. Do you see the shiny round gold thing? Yes? Good. That, dear reader, is a Printz award, which, if you don't know, is a very fancy sort of an award. Looking for Alaska won a Printz (a fact that you may have surmised from the aforementioned shiny round gold thing). Why did it win a Printz, you ask? Silly reader! I say. Because it is good! Now go, go out into the wonderful land of books and read it. I command you!
I award this book 4.5 daggers.*
Depressedly, Bad-Thing-hatingly yours,
*I should probably give it five, but there's too much drinking. Is that a legitimate reason to take away a half a dagger? Eh. Teenage drinking is annoying.
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Despite all of the teen drinking and sex and smoking, I absolutely adore this book. It is a beautiful story of love and loss and suffering. And it made me cry. It absolutely ripped my heart out. And one must love a book that can do that.
The inevitability of the Bad Thing really hits you, though.
Hits you hard.
I give it the only set of daggers that I am able: all five.
Hoping for good last words...
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Warm weather, the dog days of summer, time to break out the shorts. Nothing more refreshing and cooler than lounging about, unencumbered, with plenty of free time to lounge and let the mind flicker an wander. The perfect time to snack on short stories and other collected short works. I am opening this one to the floor because while I feel I could cover this topic myself I've found myself more
Um....Dolly Parton whatsitnow? Sound intriguing.
It's my story for the Bloody October anthology... :)
It was a really fun post to do.
Wait, I can nuke my hometown? I knew I forgot something!
I think I may do it again - I don't think I did enough damage first time. :)
Nice list. Creepy, but in a good way. ;)
Creepy is always good. ;)
Sounds like you have one heck of a great time every time you sit at your computer. Now, about that home town, you wouldn't mind telling me where it is so I can avoid it, would you?
BTW, the earlier anonymous was Gustavo - sorry about that, it's just that I've gotten used to LJ recognising me instantly that I do this all the time when I'm on a different system!
See, this is why I'm going to do this list now...
Yeah, me too.
Hi Gustavo - if you click the OpenID button it lets you use your livejournal account. Oh, and I'm always forgetting to put my name on comments I live on LJ.
JC, Jeremy - it's such a cool idea isn't it? Kudos, Natalie.
Does sound fun (hey, who wouldn't want to nuke their city?... I'll be in the Bloody October Anthology myself.
You have a cool blog here; I remember a lot of those zines of old listed in your biblio. I added you to my author links, hope that's all right.
Cheers,
Lawrence
www.lawrencedagstine.com
Cheers for visiting, Lawrence. And I look forward to reading your story in the Bloody October antho...
Speaking of zombies...
I just saw this at tor.com: http://tor.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=blog&id=4258
Not sure if you have a zombie novel lying around, but I thought I'd give you a heads-up (hehe) just in case.
Thank goodness those zombies didn't make it to the Oscars! Although they might have improved the pre-awards shows no end.
Agh!
I have two zombie novels. One for children (far too short) and one for adults at 141,000 words long and only in hardcopy. Long story. I keep meaning to transfer it to the computer - that is type it up and edit it of course because it kind of sucks a little bit - but keep putting it off. Kicks herself.
And double agh! They didn't want a synopsis.
LOL! This has cheered me up. :)
I recommend trying it at home. :)