Comments on: Where did you go?

By: KVTaylor

KVTaylor — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:01:38 +0000

Aaron, From what I’ve seen of it, illustrations would OWN in Loathsome. Can you imagine how cool that atmosphere would be when translated like that? Man…

But yes. Kubrick effing rules. “A Clockwork Orange” is still my favorite movie ever!

Cate, I’ll drink to that– dreaming small is for, er, the small-minded. Right! But yeah, there are total similarities with “Tom Jones”, but “Barry Lyndon” is cooler. Also, funnier, if you can believe it. (But I like Thackeray better than Fielding anyhow, so I might be a little biased.)

By: Cate Gardner

Cate Gardner — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:33:24 +0000

I refuse to dream small, and now I want chapter illustrations. I don’t think I’ve seen Barry Lyndon. I thought I had, but I’m guessing I was confused with ‘Tom Jones’ as I pictured Albert Finney in the lead role.

By: Aaron Polson

Aaron Polson — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:08:00 +0000

Kubrick rocks my socks. I want full page plates of engraved prints in Loathesome. That would kick too much @$$.

By: KVTaylor

KVTaylor — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:56:59 +0000

Jamie, precisely! Plus, it’s a throwback to that whole manuscript illumination with the giant pretty capitals at the beginning. Who doesn’t love that? (Okay, maybe cool people don’t. But I do.)

Jeremy, they do! Or they did last year, because that’s how I saw it. So good!

Nat… wow. You’ve had some good ideas. But I think you just topped them all. The verdict: Yes.

You know, Alan, in the book the horse is sort of jumping past a stone bridge– or something otherwise stupid. Not as dramatic as Rob Roy’s escape (which is awesome), but far more hilarious. Oh Barry, you lovely little scoundrel.

It’s nice of your wife to pick up the slack– I admit my better half had to do a lot of that last year, poor man. This year he’s studying for exams, so it’s a good thing I didn’t have to beg for that again, I reckon!

Also, never too early to shop. I love buying stuff for people. My god.

By: Alan W. Davidson

Alan W. Davidson — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:46:31 +0000

November did disappear for me. That NaNo thick really sucks up your time. Lucky my wife took up some of the slack.

Nice illustration. Is the horse really jumping off the stone bridge (got me thinking of the bridge in Rob Roy where Neeson makes his escape from Tim Roth).

Much to early to shop yet…

By: Natalie L. Sin

Natalie L. Sin — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:41:57 +0000

The illustration got me thinking. I want my first novel to have a centerfold ; )

By: Jeremy D Brooks

Jeremy D Brooks — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:28:30 +0000

I need to see if that’s on Netflix Watch It Now…they have 2 or 3 Kubrick movies there, I think.

By: jamie

jamie — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:33:24 +0000

Another Kubrick film I haven’t watched. And I thought I had seen most of them. Also, little illustrations are the best. They might not move a story forward but they give us a hint of what is to come.