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May. 21st, 2006 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
apocalypsosSo I went to my parents' house for dinner tonight, and my dad gave me one of his old prepaid phones, and my mom gave me her paperback copy of The DaVinci Code because I said I hadn't read it.
I just read the first page.
Okay, here's the thing. The first story I ever wrote was because I read a horrendous romance novel when I was about fifteen that made me fling the damn thing at the nearest wall and shriek, "I can write better than that!" And I couldn't at that point, but I was damn well going to try.
I think if I had read this back then, I wouldn't have become a writer.
I would have become the quarterback for the Eagles.
They wouldn't have had much of a choice but to draft me at that point, really, considering I would have thrown this book hard enough to brain Dan Brown from several states away.
I just read the first page.
Okay, here's the thing. The first story I ever wrote was because I read a horrendous romance novel when I was about fifteen that made me fling the damn thing at the nearest wall and shriek, "I can write better than that!" And I couldn't at that point, but I was damn well going to try.
I think if I had read this back then, I wouldn't have become a writer.
I would have become the quarterback for the Eagles.
They wouldn't have had much of a choice but to draft me at that point, really, considering I would have thrown this book hard enough to brain Dan Brown from several states away.
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Date: 2006-05-22 06:35 am (UTC)I'm ambivalent about them turning Repairman Jack into a movie. On one hand it could be really good but I don't know who they'll pick to play this character and it could easily turn into something bad. (thinking Mission Impossible bad) These books do have potential to become great movies, after all the series is good with interesting and harrowing plots and believable characters.