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| thegreatsporkwielder |
 Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 4:47 pm |
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Bride and Prejudice was cute. But that also brings to mind that modernized version of Pride and Prejudice that came out a few years ago. That was so painful to watch. It's one thing to modernize something (a la Clueless or West Side Story) where you figure out that it's a modern adaptation by watching it. That's clever. It's another thing for them to slap the original name on the update. Eegh.
And I think that's the biggest problem with fanfiction. Sequels, anyway. It seems that the author tries too hard to emulate original author, and then it just sucks because they can't do it! They either try so hard to keep the characters in character that they end up being carbon copies with no depth past what they had in the original, or they try to put their own "spin" on them and they end up being so out of whack that nobody wants to read the book.
Maybe I just need to read better published fanfic. |
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| Overhill |
| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:03 pm |
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You would be, by any chance, referring to the "Little House on the Prairie" prequels and sequels, would you? My daughters wanted to read everything they could get their hands on about the family. Some of the prequels were slightly interesting (like artificial vanilla flavor does have its moments), but the sequels were awful!
There's another genre of fanfic out there, the "finish the book" one, where some author gets some famous persong's unfinished story and "finishes" it. There's a Louisa May Alcott one out there, that the author did not give her name too, so as to give Louisa the credit. It was published in the late 1970's or 80's. There's also Issac Asimov's short story"Nighfall" that was expanded by Robert Silverberg, I think with the former's permission (like Anne McCaffery working with a number of other authors on her various books/story lines, getting ready to pass them off, it seems. Pern now belongs to her son Todd.) |
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| thegreatsporkwielder |
| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:49 am |
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I wasn't referring to any specific fandom, just what I'd noted in general.
There's also Emma Brown...the first two chapters were written by Charlotte Bronte and Clare Boylan finished it. I've never read it, but my Victorian Lit professor said it was awful. |
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| wonga |
| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2006 7:25 am |
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thegreatsporkwielder wrote:
And I think that's the biggest problem with fanfiction. Sequels, anyway. It seems that the author tries too hard to emulate original author, and then it just sucks because they can't do it! They either try so hard to keep the characters in character that they end up being carbon copies with no depth past what they had in the original, or they try to put their own "spin" on them and they end up being so out of whack that nobody wants to read the book.
I can't agree with you more. If the writers would just be themselves, let it flow instead of being something they aren't perhaps their attempts wouldn't be so bad.
I have noticed that many of their own original works are actually quite good. |
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| Overhill |
| Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 3:37 pm |
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Lousia May Alcott was basically forced by her readers to write more of "Little Women", and ended up with what we now know as the second half of the book (Little Wives or something), Little Men, and Jo's Boys, at the end of which she gave short summaries of how each character lived to the end of his or her life, then firmly (and as I recall, she actually used the word "firmly") put an end to the series, sort of what I imagine JKR's last chapter to do.
In that pre-Einstein era, I don't know if there were fanfics that explored Alternate Universes, but this is the post- era, and there are an infinite AUs, as many as people can create them.
(and at this point, I'm imagining my OC Richard Goodfellow and his friends star-gazing while camped out on the top of the Astronomy Tower at Hogwarts on a clear and moonless night....) |
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| Firewhisky |
| Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 12:50 am |
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Anyone here ever heard of "Witch world", by Andre something or other?
In any case, I found a book of fanfic based on it, and actually enlisted by the author!
It wasn't too bad... in fact, some/most of the stories were more interesting than the original. hmmmm.... |
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| Overhill |
| Posted: Sun Dec 24, 2006 6:32 am |
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I haven't read that series, but "Elfquest" had four volumes of stories that took place during different Holt chiefs. Richard Pini was the editor; I don't know if he recruited them, or if they came after him. They were good reading.
There was also a series called "Friends of Darkworld" or something. There was one story I wanted to read, but I guess it's out of print - a spoof of Anne McCaffery's Pern series, where "T'Spoon" and "Broth" went through some sort of portal, and ended up working at a tavern on "Darkworld". (Wonder if it had anything to do with the children's book "Dragons Don't Cook Pizza"....) |
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| JackieJLH |
| Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 5:14 pm |
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Extremely, extremely late reply, but...
Overhill, there's a sequel to Wicked? What's it called?! *wants* |
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| Overhill |
| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:18 am |
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| JackieJLH |
| Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:40 am |
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| OMG! *orders* Thanks!! |
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