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« Reply #75 on: August 11, 2011, 07:41:10 PM » |
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Les Misérables. Just beautiful.
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« Reply #76 on: August 11, 2011, 09:11:00 PM » |
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« Reply #77 on: January 27, 2012, 06:49:09 AM » |
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Les Misérables. Just beautiful.
I agree. Strangely enough, when I wrote Past Imperfect it had a Les Miserables style plot: a detective at its core obsessed with hunting down a criminal. Except I felt that in today's age a clever criminal could get away with a serious crime (such as murder) for half a lifetime, so the detective ends up the wounded party, rather than the reverse. |
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« Reply #78 on: January 27, 2012, 07:45:26 AM » |
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One episode / book for Sherlock and Doctor Who. I love these two and I would gladly write one episode, one book to those. And movie; Screamers (The Second Variety). That's my favorite. Or a new X-Files. I would happily write a conspiracy episode / book or an entire movie into that franchise.
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« Reply #79 on: January 27, 2012, 08:57:44 AM » |
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Pride and Prejudice
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« Reply #80 on: January 27, 2012, 09:14:10 AM » |
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Mystic River. Great layered story.
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« Reply #81 on: January 27, 2012, 09:27:59 AM » |
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I am not a writer so I'll base my answer either on my favorite book, A Game of Thrones, or a book that I haven't read but has sold over 150 million copies, The Lord of the Rings. Because who has read A Game of Thrones and not liked it? Who wouldn't want to sell 150 million copies of a book?
This thread prompted me to Wiki the best selling books of all times. Who knew that Eric Carle's "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" sold 30 million copies? I believe it. My kids love that book!
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« Reply #82 on: January 27, 2012, 10:09:10 AM » |
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I would like to say a money-maker like Twilight or Harry Potter, but the thing is that it is not just the book...but the book at the right time, with the right agent, and other factors...so simply writing it would not have guaranteed anything.
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« Reply #83 on: January 27, 2012, 10:32:43 AM » |
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Actually, on second thoughts, I'd have loved Dan Brown's sales from The Da Vinci Code - but on a completely different book of my own making so that it gained literary kudos as well |
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« Reply #85 on: January 27, 2012, 05:26:41 PM » |
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Deliverance, James Dicky.
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« Reply #86 on: January 27, 2012, 07:54:57 PM » |
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I always wanted to write a script for an episode of Star Trek, but never got around to it. Maybe if they ever start a new series I'll give it a shot.
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« Reply #87 on: January 27, 2012, 09:15:36 PM » |
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Hi,
Great question.
For me the scripts would be either Star Trek Enterprise (the absolute best of them in my opinion) or Wonderfalls. Fantastic series, gone too soon. But the dialogue is superb, the wit sparkles, the disenchanted characters still make me laugh, and the entire premise, a prophet who doesn't want to be one and so in the end is simply used as one, is brilliant.
As for the books - I'm a fantasy author through and through, and many have said Lord of the Rings. Great choice, but a little too 1940's for me. I'd take Steven Donaldson's first trilogy of Thamas Covenant instead. Fantastic story, beautiful imagery the man is an artist with a pen, and this was his best. After that he seemed to slip into his dark place a little too far.
Cheers, Greg.
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« Reply #88 on: January 27, 2012, 09:35:43 PM » |
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I don't know about books, but I see movies all the time that I think, "Dang, I wish I'd come up with that." Like "Book of Eli." What a great concept.
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« Reply #89 on: January 27, 2012, 10:21:43 PM » |
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It's an interesting question...
For sheer power, genius, and literary mastery...Knut Hamsun's HUNGER...or Dostoyevsky's THE IDIOT...or Robert Pirsig's ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE
But that's 3 books...
And even Alexander Trocchi's CAIN'S BOOK...
But behind each story and each writer there was such a tale of suffering and tragedy (in some cases redeemed, in some cases not...but who could decide that besides the authors)...so you might be tempted to wish you'd have written the book, until the next moment you realise you'd then have had to live the life behind the book.
(Oh...and Mikhail Bulgakov's THE MASTER AND MARGARITA!)(More genius...more tragedy...)
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« Reply #90 on: January 28, 2012, 02:52:57 AM » |
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The Bible. For the royalties.
The Bible, because that would mean I was God. |
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The Bible. For the royalties. The Bible, because that would mean I was God. That Sarah must give you a lot of confidence! |
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« Reply #92 on: January 28, 2012, 06:19:34 AM » |
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The Green Mile Steven King
One of the best books I have ever read!
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« Reply #93 on: January 28, 2012, 07:14:29 AM » |
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Books: Any of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. Film : The First Great Train Robbery. TV : Dad's Army.
I know I couldn't improve on them, but it would have been great just being a famous Victorian (and later) author, or just part of the film / TV teams.
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« Reply #94 on: January 28, 2012, 07:27:01 AM » |
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