Comments on: Wednesday Morning LitLinks http://authorscoop.com/2009/06/24/wednesday-morning-litlinks-60/ The Latest in Literary News Mon, 21 May 2012 11:29:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: William Haskins http://authorscoop.com/2009/06/24/wednesday-morning-litlinks-60/#comment-6182 William Haskins Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:28:39 +0000 http://authorscoop.com/?p=5535#comment-6182 well said. well said.

]]> By: Stew http://authorscoop.com/2009/06/24/wednesday-morning-litlinks-60/#comment-6181 Stew Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:03:10 +0000 http://authorscoop.com/?p=5535#comment-6181 Yes. I liked that one, too. His book is based on someone else's characters, plays with the original's title, includes the original author's persona, and uses a bastardized take on the classic, Frankenstein for a premise. Not to mention he's used a device Vonnegut used in Breakfast of Champions (and possibly other authors have done so too) by putting an author in the story with his characters. Except one difference. Vonnegut put himself in a story with his own characters. and he isn't the author and the characters aren't his. But yes, super-original. Yes. I liked that one, too. His book is based on someone else’s characters, plays with the original’s title, includes the original author’s persona, and uses a bastardized take on the classic, Frankenstein for a premise. Not to mention he’s used a device Vonnegut used in Breakfast of Champions (and possibly other authors have done so too) by putting an author in the story with his characters. Except one difference. Vonnegut put himself in a story with his own characters.
and he isn’t the author and the characters aren’t his.
But yes, super-original.

]]> By: William Haskins http://authorscoop.com/2009/06/24/wednesday-morning-litlinks-60/#comment-6180 William Haskins Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:13:21 +0000 http://authorscoop.com/?p=5535#comment-6180 my favorite: "I think 60 Years Later IS a super-original novel. In many ways I believe 60 is as original and creative as Catcher. I realize I'm putting myself on the line saying this, but it's really a modern day Frankenstein. " my favorite:

“I think 60 Years Later IS a super-original novel. In many ways I believe 60 is as original and creative as Catcher. I realize I’m putting myself on the line saying this, but it’s really a modern day Frankenstein. “

]]> By: Stew http://authorscoop.com/2009/06/24/wednesday-morning-litlinks-60/#comment-6179 Stew Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:09:20 +0000 http://authorscoop.com/?p=5535#comment-6179 Reading that interviewing with JD California made me a little ill. Especially, "This is about creating. I find it appalling that things that belong to everyone, things you can't own, are being vandalized by greedy authors that are hiding behind laws that were meant to boost creativity and creation, not hinder it." I do so wish I could talk to him. "Holden Caulfield does not belong to all of us. It is something you CAN own. and the only vandal here, is you." What an ass. Reading that interviewing with JD California made me a little ill.
Especially, “This is about creating. I find it appalling that things that belong to everyone, things you can’t own, are being vandalized by greedy authors that are hiding behind laws that were meant to boost creativity and creation, not hinder it.”

I do so wish I could talk to him. “Holden Caulfield does not belong to all of us. It is something you CAN own. and the only vandal here, is you.”

What an ass.

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