February festival, Day 6

[pensnest]

A fic with great dialogue.

Trouble is, great dialogue crops up in so many popslash stories, and I cannot for the life of me remember all the fabulous conversations that have made me laugh aloud, or smile and nod and say yes, or even rage at the characters.

However. I'm sticking with yesterday's author, Jae, because The Earl of Rothinghamtonfordshire has some of the best dialogue *ever*. Those Backstreet group meetings in which everyone gets sidetracked into discussing Nick's book, Kevin's eyebrows and the fact that "they're not real monkeys"... Much of the story happens in dialogue, and it is brilliant. (When I recorded the story I kept having to stop the recording, announce to the cat that this was the best story *ever*, and sober myself before I could get on with it.)



Nothing I've written is on a level with TEoR, which is no surprise. And really, deciding that I've written "great dialogue" is a bit, well, I dunno, it isn't really my call. However, I'm nominating The White Room, because I remember wanting to keep things fairly stark when I was writing it, and cutting back on frills and such as best I could. I'm a frilly writer. But I'm particularly fond of the scene where Chris is bandaged and the five of them are eating together.

Comments

[rikes]

Nothing says good literature like a bunch of monkeys. ;D

Wow, that's a lot more snow than I saw at your place last year. Good luck! :D

[turlough]

You have more snow than I do. That's just wrong! :-)

[frausorge]

That's quite an impressive amount of snow!

[eponymous.livejournal.com]

Damn you.

Clearly, this is all part of your plot to make reccers stay on track (I'm only, er, three days behind at this point), because you have again recced one of my planned stories. I was going to rec your marvellous reading, too.

Now I guess I'll have to come up with something else. And perhaps pout a little. In a cheerful kind of way.

[pensnest]

The Earl of Rothinghamtonfordshire is clearly, and deservedly, getting a lot of love. I seem to have pre-empted everyone! Heheh. I'm glad you like the reading.

[brandywine28.livejournal.com]

Lord Almighty, this is the second time in only six days you've beaten me to the punch and recced a story I had planned on using! I suppose I could always vow to beat you at your own game by waking up extra early for some pre-sunrise reccing, but I think we both know that isn't going to happen. :)

[pensnest]

In fairness, I don't think there's any reason why we can't duplicate recs—but on the other hand it's nice to be reminded of other great stories that didn't spring to mind.

[turps33.livejournal.com]

All our snow has melted now. It stuck around for all of a day.

And now I'll go re-read about Nick's book again.

[pensnest]

Ours is still lying about, but much less of it than on Sunday, and the roads are clear. Which is fine, really, because it just looks pretty without being a real nuisance.

[luxshine.livejournal.com]

I love Howie's lines in that fic. They're wonderful. And Brian's calm acceptance that no, their group is not very good at thinking things through... and who can sleep with who and... I have to go and re-read all about Nicks's book again.(However, my favorite line ever in a fic has always been "Fuck me gently with a chain-saw," And I can't remember which fic it came from... I do remember KEvin said it.

[zebraljb.livejournal.com]

I believe that line is also in the movie "Heathers"...

[luxshine.livejournal.com]

Really? I had no idea, haven't seen that movie.

[pensnest]

I think I love *everybody's* lines in that story, and can quote many of them. But I know there is other great dialogue in so many stories. Can't place your Kevin quote, though the chainsaw notion has been used more than once.

[luxshine.livejournal.com]

I'm almost sure it was a genderbender fic... probably Howie was the one who turned into a girl.

[pensnest]

That does ring a very faint bell...

[eponymous.livejournal.com]

You're thinking of Lois Lane's girl!Howie: What Makes You Different (Makes You Beautiful).

But it was originally from Heathers, yep. Great movie. (:

[luxshine.livejournal.com]

Also, I love your icon... yummy

[puszysty.livejournal.com]

I do not envy your weather at all.

[pensnest]

It's not so bad at the moment—much of the snow is melted, the sky is bright blue and the sun is shining. Could be a lot worse!

[zebraljb.livejournal.com]

This is probably my fave line, though there are many great ones:

"I didn't mind," Brian said. "I liked being the vicar, and living in the vicarage with the vicaress, and riding in my vicarriage all over the vicartown."

(I want a vicarraige now)

[pensnest]

I liked "It means, if you made a statue of him, it'd small."

and

"Whoever invented bus school should be put in prison."

Ah, glee!