Re-discovering English Literature

I've just discovered someone I just can't understand how I could live without before. Jasper Fforde. I have only read one Thursday Next book by this funny I suppose Welsh man and I am really eager for the others.

Turning page after page and wishing the day had more hours I'd spent this last week reading anywhere (on the bus to and from work, on the bed, during breakfast time while my mates talked and talked and talked...). It was amazing because Fforde has a quality I have only found on another British author: Terry Prattchet. They both have the gift to take a part of our culture and turn it into something completely new and really amusing.

In the case of Fforde I have read The Eyre Affaire in which a literary detective, Thursday Next travels to the Jane Eyre book chasing the villain Acheron Hades and finally have the book's end changed. It's amazing how my remembrances of Jane Eyre florished in my mind while reading.

Rob is dead

Rob just died this morning. He was on his way to work when something so extraordinary happned that he had to stop his walking process just to see it. The girl that walked behind every morning questioned him but he was paralysed.

She saw him go white with fear just the moment before someone stopped his car in front of them and sticking a gun out of the window shot three times. The car raced away without anyone noticing who the driver was or even the license plate.

Rob is dead. All his life has been useless. Someone stopped him just before the moment he was going to be useful for the first time in his life. But nothing is left. Why do I have to talk about him then?

This is just crazy. Let's find alive characters to talk about them. Sorry for the ramblings.

Killing your characters

After speaking about the new Harry Potter movie and the last book of the series that I'm awaiting so eagerly I started to consider the idea of killing your favorite characters. I know readers normally carver for round endings where everything is solved and they can leave the book with a sense of relieve, imagining life in books as more adventurous but that always ends nicely for the main characters. They end up happily married, or achieving the goals they had previously stated.

I don't know if it would be a sound idea to have evil win over good. I think that this novel, short story or whatever would lack something, the reader would be disappointed but as an exercise is so appaeling to me that I'll try to kill my main character in a short short story. If the idea is somewhat publishable I'll try to post it here.

Till then I leave you with the idea to question yourself. Is it possible to kill your main character and, at the same time, make a novel pleasent to the reader. Let's try and play a bit with language!

Nervous for the new Harry Potter?

Me yes!

I'm eagerly waiting for the Order of the Phoenix film and of course, for the last book of the series "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" which means I will have to reread the whole series. I can't stand a finale so announced. But at the same time I just want more of Harry and to read the whole story at last.

The problem is this last book will put a full stop to the ongoing story as a way for J.K. Rowling to be free at last to write something else. There's too much people freaking out with her story so as to leave i t open-ended. My theory is that she'll kill Harry and free the world of Voldie. But if Harry lives there will always be the possibility to ask her for an adult Harry story and I don't think she'll want to do it. She's been spending too much time with the same character.

Remember that she is not the only author to kill her characters off. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did the same to Sherlock Holmes but he hat to eat his hat off and make him come back from the dead. Let's hope someone has an ace or two in his hands.

To begin with, I'm leaving you with this teaser trailer of the film that will be released in two months, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

You wanna know how I lost my virginity? So do I

Punching, don't you think so? This is one of my favorite lines ever in my everlasting favorite TV show that should be viewed by any teenager or even any adult who has some youth breath inside: Veronica Mars.

I have just discovered Rob Thomas and I feel he is someone we, the ones who aspire to write and publish something, should keep an eye on. He has an inspiring gift for dialogues and plotting, two of the best characteristics a writer should have. Even though I have only seen his TV show I am eager to land my hands on Neptune Noir. If he writes novels as he does write scripts I will be his most faithful fan.

I just hope/praise for this third isn't the last season. It just can't happen. They cannot cancel a show like this and continue with boring series or stupid Pussycats. I just desire there is someone as smart as Veronica and gives her another season just to amuse the quality fans the series has and deserves. Well, really, it deserves a lot more, but, people may be brain affected by the bombarding of too many and too bad TV shows.

Veronica, we want you back!

Beginning

Just trying to begin a blog in English, to practise my language and improve my skills.

I bow to myself not to tell anyone I know until I feel really comfortable with my words, my sentences and my paragraphs.

My ultimate aim will be recognition and publication, but this appears to be a slippery way to which not everyone has access. Though I now promise to myself that I will disclose my identity whenever my first work is published.

I'll try to be more or less consistent in my practise but I know of my procastination tendencies. If I do overcome them, a great battle will be won.