Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond > Brokeback Mountain Open Forum
getting hit hard by offhand revelations (story discussion)
Front-Ranger:
No, go ahead with your questions about the story and comparisons of story to the movie, NavyVet. This is the place, you've come to the right place!! As for talk about fanfiction, you can talk about it to your heart's content over on the fanfiction forum. We have set aside a whole forum with two moderators for people to talk about fanfiction. Now, Mel, don't get your dander up, cut NavyVet a little slack, he'll get in the swing of things very soon!!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: NavyVet on October 23, 2006, 11:31:42 am ---I only mentioned IMO that on first impression, the grammar and sentence structure surprised me. Her 'style', I guess, took some getting used to for me. I have reread it multiple times since then and it has grown on me.
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Her style took me some getting used to, too, NavyVet. The first thing I tried to read of hers was "The Shipping News," and I didn't get very far. I read BBM before seeing the movie and although I liked it I wasn't as swept away by it as some people were. If they hadn't made a movie of it I might never have read the story again. Now the more I read it the more I appreciate it, but even now it's not as easily appealing as the movie is, for me.
Momof2:
If I had read the story before the movie, I might not have watched the movie. I am an avid reader, but was not greatlty impressed. Thank goodness I did not. I am not sure what it is about the story, I guess the whole time all I could picture was "Our" Jack and Ennis and not the ones in the story. I would like to read some more of her writing.
I have to say that we have some unbelievably talented writers on FanFiction.
Front-Ranger:
For all of you who are greatlty, or even just greatly, impressed with fanfiction, I invite you one and all to redline it over to the fanfiction forum and make those unbelievably talented writers' day. And while you're at it, you might mention to them that they might use a little of their talent to create their own original characters. But if you have a weakness for a story that is full off run on sentences, or even a story with run-on sentences in it, this is the place to talk about it.
Front-Ranger:
To start our weekend off right, I borrowed Fabienne's sig line to quote to remind us of why the story is so great, and to show that Annie Proulx IS a romantic after all, in her own way:
'Ennis, riding against the wind back to the sheep in the treacherous, drunken light, thought he'd never had such a good time, felt he could paw the white out of the moon'
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