Of course, I've read opinions that the Orphan's Tales were too distant. "Urchins, While Swimming", a short story and the first Valente I ever read, won me with characters and language: http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/valente_12_06/
I will check that out!
I suspect that if a book is easy to see as a movie, it usually isn't well-written as a book, though I can't be certain.)
Well, personally I disagree; I've read some FANTASTIC books that basically played like movies in my head and that I would actually love to see adapted (Sabriel and The Wizard Hunters being two of them).
Only two book fandoms have kept my interest for years: Harry Potter and the Black Magician trilogy. I am less certain of their source materials' quality than I used to be, so quality probably has little to do with my fannishness.
*nods* I feel like same way. For me, the source material has to have something MISSING, something that I really wanted to see, in order for me to get really fannish about it.
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I will check that out!
I suspect that if a book is easy to see as a movie, it usually isn't well-written as a book, though I can't be certain.)
Well, personally I disagree; I've read some FANTASTIC books that basically played like movies in my head and that I would actually love to see adapted (Sabriel and The Wizard Hunters being two of them).
Only two book fandoms have kept my interest for years: Harry Potter and the Black Magician trilogy. I am less certain of their source materials' quality than I used to be, so quality probably has little to do with my fannishness.
*nods* I feel like same way. For me, the source material has to have something MISSING, something that I really wanted to see, in order for me to get really fannish about it.