Duk Sauce
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Scott Hawkins:
Hi Mr. Hawkins, I really REALLY enjoyed the LIbrary at Mount Char. I'd never quite read a book like it. I was ready to give up halfway through but once the threads started coming together I was hooked. I was wondering who your influences were (I have a guess of one or two but I want to see if i'm right!) and what the inspiration behind the story was. Thank you! ? (I needed to include a question mark apparently)
Scott Hawkins
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(view spoiler)[Hey Duk Sauce,
Spoilers Ahoy
Stephen King and Thomas Harris were two of my biggies. I tend to read books that I like over and over and over again--no joke, dozens or hundreds of times. For the most part I'm not doing a conscious analysis of "okay, he's doing this in scene X, followed by this in scene Y," but I've got to believe that that sort of thing sinks in at some intuitive level by the fortieth or fiftieth reading.
I will say that the storyline of Mount Char was to some extent a descendant of the novel The Godfather. The theme about a king finding his successor is identical, and the first chapter of Mount Char draws heavily from the "let's meet the characters" wedding scene that opens The Godfather.
I definitely read a lot of Neil Gaiman as well, but I've never studied him to the extent that I have some other writers. (hide spoiler)]
Spoilers Ahoy
Stephen King and Thomas Harris were two of my biggies. I tend to read books that I like over and over and over again--no joke, dozens or hundreds of times. For the most part I'm not doing a conscious analysis of "okay, he's doing this in scene X, followed by this in scene Y," but I've got to believe that that sort of thing sinks in at some intuitive level by the fortieth or fiftieth reading.
I will say that the storyline of Mount Char was to some extent a descendant of the novel The Godfather. The theme about a king finding his successor is identical, and the first chapter of Mount Char draws heavily from the "let's meet the characters" wedding scene that opens The Godfather.
I definitely read a lot of Neil Gaiman as well, but I've never studied him to the extent that I have some other writers. (hide spoiler)]
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Whitney
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Scott Hawkins:
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Pardon me if this has already been asked, or if it really is obvious in the book, but I didn't catch it, even after reading it twice.... How does it become David's "assignment" to rescue Steve from prison? Does Carolyn convince him? How does she convince everyone that Steve is "essential" but also disposable? And is his heart a McGuffin?
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