10 [Report This]Date: March 05, 2007 11:17 pm Title: The Rescue
OK too many freakin' brilliant lines to quote. Jigzaw puzzle!!! 3:48:16 a.m!!! He won't thank you till much later!!! Grossvatar!!! tracking device on his car!!! beet juice mayonnaise (that made me want to hurl!)!!! And I am SO GLAD you kept the William Goldman quotes because you are right, mustn't tamper with perfection! Wow! Just, wow!!!
Author's Response: Thanks so much, Muggins, for your comments - so much fun to read! :)
10 [Report This]Date: October 16, 2006 04:31 pm Title: The Rescue
If Dwight had to make a quick getaway, Kevin would make good, slow bait for his pursuers. - great line!
Love how, when it's Dwight's turn to be in action, Ryan is refered to as The Temp.
Ryan's the narrator? Since I still don't know the original story, it surprised me. I'll have to go back to previous chapters to look for clues...
Author's Response: The book was "narrated" by the author, and the movie used a grandfather/grandson duo where I've used grandfather/granddaughter. The dialogue is very similar. In the movie, though, the story is complete fantasy - you don't ever get the impression that the grandfather was actually in the fairy tale, the way Ryan is here. But I wanted someone who had witnessed Jim/Pam to tell the story; I figured he could learn the bits he didn't know later, after they were friends, happily ever after.
10 [Report This]Date: October 14, 2006 12:00 pm Title: The Rescue
Wooo! Go, Ryan! I didn't think he'd be Miracle Max, but it fits perfectly! Yay "to blaaave," er, True Love.
If Dwight had to make a quick getaway, Kevin would make good, slow bait for his pursuers.
Snerk.
Author's Response: Whee! Thanks, Beth :)
10 [Report This]Date: October 14, 2006 10:09 am Title: The Rescue
Ah, 'true love' indeed. I'm on pins and needles over here. Great use of Kelly. So good.
Author's Response: Thanks, bitterpill!
9 [Report This]Date: October 14, 2006 08:27 am Title: The Rescue
Look at you, adding new chapters before I even get a chance to get up to date with the last couple! (Not. Complaining. At. All!)
This is getting so crazy/fun/silly, and I'm still loving how closely you're sticking to the original.
Ryan in Miracle Max's role is NOT what I would have expected, but it worked so well, with his ailment being drunkenness rather than death! Hee.
And Ryan = narrator! Now I understand that "irony = I'm madly in love with your grandmother" comment from one of the early chapters - I just thought I was completely slow and ignorant before.
Author's Response: Thanks a lot, Semby!
10 [Report This]Date: October 14, 2006 08:11 am Title: The Rescue
The casting in this chapter is so perfect! Kelly as advocate of true love, Toby as hapless joiner of Pam and Packer, Kevin as Fezzik. I love you. :-)
Author's Response: Yay! Thanks, Lissa ;)
10 [Report This]Date: October 14, 2006 08:02 am Title: The Rescue
Ryan is the narrator! I hadn't caught on to that at all. If someone wants to do something for true love, that would certainly be Kelly. :) Dwight and Kevin were very cool together. Can't wait to read the last chapter!
Author's Response: Some of Grandpa's lines will make a LOT more sense now ;) Thanks, Gen!
10 [Report This]Date: October 14, 2006 07:30 am Title: The Rescue
kelly was perfect as valerie! i could just see her shreiking her lines :) and of course toby will want to do the paperwork slowly, because he wouldn't want pam to go out with packer!
Author's Response:
Valerie was the first character I cast after Westley + Buttercup. Kelly's too perfect :) Thanks, again, janelle!
10 [Report This]Date: October 14, 2006 05:49 am Title: The Rescue
When the second message came through, Dwight dropped his lightsaber and pulled his shirt back on.
OMG. I can't EVEN....
There's so much I love about this chapter - I seriously can't even begin to list them. Ryan and Kelly. Kevin.
"Today's Saturday."
"Shoot," said Kevin.
LMAO!
You've accomplished this arduous task to perfection, Shan. Really, REALLY well done. :)
Author's Response:
Hee! Glad you liked those. I was LOL writing this chapter. Yeah, I crack myself up - I'm a dork. Thanks, Krissy ;)
10 [Report This]Date: October 14, 2006 05:34 am Title: The Rescue
I love every bit of this- it's fun, and spot-on with the original, and it makes me laugh. But then I get to a line like this: "The place where, in a soft blue glow, he had kissed her, silent and determined." and I just stop, because that's so profoundly, simply right. That's the best description of the Kiss I think I've read.
Author's Response: Wow, thanks, Lis. I just like reliving the Kiss ;) Glad you're digging the story!