fpw Wrote:[SIZE="3"]The stories will be set in 1982-83 when he's 13-14. His home town will be set on the edge of the Pine Barrens -- which will loom large in the stories. A place to explore and find...stuff. Mr. Foster's land will be nearby. Folks will venture into the pines to buy applejack from the Appleton family. Mulliners and McKelstons will pass through town. Jack's part-time job will be in a store called USED, full of neat old stuff that he comes to appreciate. There'll be a reputedly haunted house, a reputed witch (who has a dog -- aiiiii!) and Weird Walt, a reclusive Vietnam vet who can act pretty strange at times.[/SIZE]
GREAT! I'm very interested in those stories. I'm looking forward to it.
The form is short stories? Or a full-length novel? How about serial novels, like a Green Mile?
Kenji Wrote:GREAT! I'm very interested in those stories. I'm looking forward to it.
The form is short stories? Or a full-length novel? How about serial novels, like a Green Mile?
[SIZE="3"]They'll be short novels. YA novels usually run 50-60k words.[/SIZE]
FPW
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fpw Wrote:[SIZE="3"]The stories will be set in 1982-83 when he's 13-14. His home town will be set on the edge of the Pine Barrens -- which will loom large in the stories. A place to explore and find...stuff. Mr. Foster's land will be nearby. Folks will venture into the pines to buy applejack from the Appleton family. Mulliners and McKelstons will pass through town. Jack's part-time job will be in a store called USED, full of neat old stuff that he comes to appreciate. There'll be a reputedly haunted house, a reputed witch (who has a dog -- aiiiii!) and Weird Walt, a reclusive Vietnam vet who can act pretty strange at times.[/SIZE]I'm an atheist but it's okay because FPW has created a HEAVEN HERE ON EARTH!
Ossicle Wrote:I'm an atheist but it's okay because FPW has created a HEAVEN HERE ON EARTH!Well, at least that solves your problem about who to yell out to at orgasm. Though, somehow, "Oh FPW!" doesn't have quite the right ring to it.
Of course, we agnostics have an even worse problem: "Oh God, if you actually exist!" is a little wordy.
Brett
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BrettM Wrote:Well, at least that solves your problem about who to yell out to at orgasm. Though, somehow, "Oh FPW!" doesn't have quite the right ring to it.
Of course, we agnostics have an even worse problem: "Oh God, if you actually exist!" is a little wordy.
Brett
Depends on how long you orgasm!
And you forgot to add "from whichever religion". I still think Oden is in the race myself!
KRW
I can't wait for it!
As a big fan of FPW, I must say that I think this is a terrible idea. For one, it doesn't fit AT ALL with the description of Jack in The Tomb. Here are 2 examples.
Pg. 216 "And then he was home, turning the cornerby what had been Mr. Canelli's house; Canelli had died and the new owner must have been trying to save water because the lawn had burned to a uniform shade of pale brown. He pulled into the driveway of the three-bedroom ranch in which he, his brother, and his sister had all grown up, turned off the car, and sat a moment wishing he were someplace else."
I'm sure you could argue that this passage is just talking about his teenage years, so here is a second, more detailed example.
Pg. 234 ""Jack closed his eyes and absorbed the feel of the house. He had grown up here. He knew every crack in the walls, every squeaky step, every hiding place. This living room had been so big then; now it seemed tiny. He could still remember that man in the next room carrying him around the house on his shoulders when he was about five. And when he was older they had played catched out in the backyard. Jack had been the youngest of the three kids. There had been something special between his father and him."
I think FPW is reaching a little far here to connect all his stories. Personally, I don't think it fits with what he's written before, and I'd be much more interested to learn about his life after his first fix-it job for Mr. Canelli and the beginning of The Tomb.
Pg. 216 "And then he was home, turning the cornerby what had been Mr. Canelli's house; Canelli had died and the new owner must have been trying to save water because the lawn had burned to a uniform shade of pale brown. He pulled into the driveway of the three-bedroom ranch in which he, his brother, and his sister had all grown up, turned off the car, and sat a moment wishing he were someplace else."
I'm sure you could argue that this passage is just talking about his teenage years, so here is a second, more detailed example.
Pg. 234 ""Jack closed his eyes and absorbed the feel of the house. He had grown up here. He knew every crack in the walls, every squeaky step, every hiding place. This living room had been so big then; now it seemed tiny. He could still remember that man in the next room carrying him around the house on his shoulders when he was about five. And when he was older they had played catched out in the backyard. Jack had been the youngest of the three kids. There had been something special between his father and him."
I think FPW is reaching a little far here to connect all his stories. Personally, I don't think it fits with what he's written before, and I'd be much more interested to learn about his life after his first fix-it job for Mr. Canelli and the beginning of The Tomb.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Tempest Wrote:As a big fan of FPW, I must say that I think this is a terrible idea. For one, it doesn't fit AT ALL with the description of Jack in The Tomb. Here are 2 examples.
Pg. 216 "And then he was home, turning the cornerby what had been Mr. Canelli's house; Canelli had died and the new owner must have been trying to save water because the lawn had burned to a uniform shade of pale brown. He pulled into the driveway of the three-bedroom ranch in which he, his brother, and his sister had all grown up, turned off the car, and sat a moment wishing he were someplace else."
I'm sure you could argue that this passage is just talking about his teenage years, so here is a second, more detailed example.
Pg. 234 ""Jack closed his eyes and absorbed the feel of the house. He had grown up here. He knew every crack in the walls, every squeaky step, every hiding place. This living room had been so big then; now it seemed tiny. He could still remember that man in the next room carrying him around the house on his shoulders when he was about five. And when he was older they had played catched out in the backyard. Jack had been the youngest of the three kids. There had been something special between his father and him."
I think FPW is reaching a little far here to connect all his stories. Personally, I don't think it fits with what he's written before, and I'd be much more interested to learn about his life after his first fix-it job for Mr. Canelli and the beginning of The Tomb.
(I'm going to preface this post by saying that it's been a little while since I read The Tomb and my grasp of NJ geography is sadly lacking - blush.)
Is there anything in The Tomb (or other RJ books) that would give a definite location for the house that Jack grew up in? Are there any references that would make it geographically impossible for his old family home to be located near the Pine Barrens?
My original thought when I read the Young RJ novel description was that I had never envisioned Jack growing up near the Pine Barrens, but then it IS an awfully big place....
-Luthie
BrettM Wrote:Well, at least that solves your problem about who to yell out to at orgasm. Though, somehow, "Oh FPW!" doesn't have quite the right ring to it.Hm... it's a little better if you sound it out, like a word: "Off-poooo!!" However, I never orgasm, it's unmanly.
Brett
Women should feel free to shout this out, though.
-o