http://bookgroupbuzz.booklistonline.com/2008/12/05/a-paragraph-is-worth-a-thousand-frames/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:27:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://bookgroupbuzz.booklistonline.com/2008/12/05/a-paragraph-is-worth-a-thousand-frames/comment-page-1/#comment-41693 LindaJ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:50:48 +0000 http://bookgroupbuzz.booklistonline.com/2008/12/05/a-paragraph-is-worth-a-thousand-frames/#comment-41693 P.S. Nice headline for this post! P.S. Nice headline for this post!

]]> http://bookgroupbuzz.booklistonline.com/2008/12/05/a-paragraph-is-worth-a-thousand-frames/comment-page-1/#comment-41692 LindaJ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:50:22 +0000 http://bookgroupbuzz.booklistonline.com/2008/12/05/a-paragraph-is-worth-a-thousand-frames/#comment-41692 Wow, I want to read "Stand By Me" now. Your dad's comments about King's writing being more like a screenplay is interesting, because I'm not sure that's necessarily a bad thing. (But maybe your father doesn't think it's bad; he's just an observant reader.) As I grow as a reader, I've been thinking about the power of what isn't said ("music is the space between the notes" kind of thing) and the tremendous restraint that takes as a writer. You have to trust the reader, and I like to think of the writer, on his or her 13th revision, agonizing about what to leave in. And on another note: I think "Jaws" the book was better than "Jaws" the movie! Reading Jaws on the beach changed my salt water swimming behavior FOREVER; somehow, I don't think watching Jaws in a theater or on TV would have instilled that kind of fear. Wow, I want to read “Stand By Me” now. Your dad’s comments about King’s writing being more like a screenplay is interesting, because I’m not sure that’s necessarily a bad thing. (But maybe your father doesn’t think it’s bad; he’s just an observant reader.) As I grow as a reader, I’ve been thinking about the power of what isn’t said (”music is the space between the notes” kind of thing) and the tremendous restraint that takes as a writer. You have to trust the reader, and I like to think of the writer, on his or her 13th revision, agonizing about what to leave in. And on another note: I think “Jaws” the book was better than “Jaws” the movie! Reading Jaws on the beach changed my salt water swimming behavior FOREVER; somehow, I don’t think watching Jaws in a theater or on TV would have instilled that kind of fear.

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