Patrick’s Comments (group member since Mar 09, 2009)

Patrick’s comments from the fiction files redux group.

I rented a car. I am not sure of time and stuff for now but needs people to reserve spots and plan ahead for rides and forth and I would be asking for a bit of trade off in food or what not's or some expenses to offset whatever you want to work out with me for this week...Let me know either here on this thread or my profile...

How is the metro bus system there or do I need to rent a car?

Thanks for the post. I read his Perdio Street Station and a bit of the Iron Council. I got bogged down by all the Victorian weirdness in his Iron Council.

Happy birthday, Ben. (Didn't you run this scam last year to be the center of our attention?)

'Alicia learns a great deal about her family, her fiance, herself, and what type of man she truly wants to be with. She comes to the lonely and desolate gray shore where the mad sea foam and rings the rusted silver bell. A lone voice from the village idiot cry out to her from behind, 'R'yleh! R'yleh!' A lone figure wrapped in seaweeds wades from the shore, holding a sopping page a personal ad, with her name circled in red...'

why that's madness, I say, madness!

Neat, it looks like a prison or something a writer could use to really focus on his work.

Thanks. I do admit I felt rattled and stung, and agree with most of Alex's honest opinions, but I have to learn to take my beatings like everyone else who dares to be egotistic enough to write a book and expect people to spend hours and days to read copies of his or her work.

Thanks again for your indepth opinion, Alex, and look forward to the others' opinions as well, negative or positive.

Everyone, don't forget to take the poll I put in about Kanye West. With all of us, together, today, in this hour,united as one, we will change the world just with a click of the mouse! All we need to do is make a stand...an honest stand.

I would like to add that I attempted to make a distinction between hard and tears by placing a comma between them. But I guess I should have put a period between to make it stronger and more precise. I wrote it like 'alone, he wept and wept hard,/clean tears flowing'... meaning he cried really really hard, then clean tears, meaning the tears themselves were cleansing. I guess I got caught up in the emotion when writing out the scene and revising it and did not catch it while rewriting it. Thanks for the tip.

Although I have to say that I really like 'soft, dirty tears.' even if it is used as an example of imprecise writing. It's poetry to me.

Thanks for the in depth coverage. I will think about the criticisms and the mistakes you pointed out in the next book. My writings is often described as tenacious and I will try to do better in strangling my darlings before they see the light of the day.

BTW, I still think the idea of teenagers still holding on to dirty jokes and calling each other names even in the worst time is pretty darn funny.

Congratulations on your son. Sorry about Lauren's dad.

If she was one, he would have known her biblically especially if her rates are reasonable.

Damn! Can you save a copy for me at the Dorkplooza?

I still would take her home even if she sets my house on fire. Although my shyness would have prevented me from inviting her to my home for a night cap.

Happy birthday. Due to laziness, I gotta concede to Hugh.

I have been raving over this brillant novel, Let the Right One In, . in other topics on goodreads.

While I rolled my eyes at yet another vampire novel, this book is one of the most finest novel that I have read in a long time. It is not really a vampire novel but a novel of how children grow up to become adults. It is simple but beautifully written, with dark scenes of horror.

It really opened my mind to foreign writers and their outlooks on lives in other countries yet, that book hit close to home.

Wow, Tolstoy got a real sweet set up for his writings.

I myself just started the book and while I admire the author's guttiness, I do feel tepid toward this book. Maybe it will get better but it is a pain in the ass to read one sentence paragraphs and try to guess what the heck is the woman narrator trying to said. And if she is really alone, then why bother typing the whole thing if nobody's around to read it.

Voltaire also makes war looks like a Three Stooges festival except when someone gets blasted by a cannon, the result is blown bloody body parts, not the hilarity of a blacken face and smoke streaming from the victim's hair. Even if his prose was a bit flowery.

At least that's what I thought when I read one of his works.

Actually, I really like that prose. If an author could write it very clear and well enough for the reader to experience most of the sensations, then she done did it. Plus the fact the writer is one heck of a cute girl couldn't hurt neither.

I think if writing too well is writing like that author then I can just attach this along the line of you never can be too rich and too thin. Now it's you never can be too rich, too thin, and write too well.

However, I wondered what would C.E. Morgan's character, Aloma, would make of PFL? My money is on the hunch she would simply adore it.

Ha, The covers promise more than they can deliver.

Yeah, me too. I read his Sons and Lovers and I admit I did make use of his passages, expecially the part of the children's game, in where they play the same wild stupid sorrowful game over and over. His Women In Love, was also a masterpiece of course...but it does rely too heavily on Christlike figures. I often borrowed some of his images in my own writing which made it even better than I could have made it if I had not read him in my British/Irish Literture class ten years ago.
I have not read his Rainbow yet but will check it out when I am mature enough to grasp his concepts.

I still own the book with the cover of what looked like trees surrounding the house in Women In Love, and the trees looked vaguely like bulky looking woman making love to a man, and it seemed symbolic to me, that the image of what going on behind closed door is usually sex.

I am familiar with his work and gladly, his writing is very rich and at the same time earthy. Sheesh, it had been too long since I read his work.