Thursday, September 17, 2009

Hello, (Lang. B)


My name is Bill Pronzini. What was your favorite part of my story? What was your favorite line? What do you think I could've done differently? Why is this story Hardboiled/Noir?

16 comments:

  1. well exactly I don't know because I don't have the story in here but: I think that you would finish the story in a other way, a most interesting one, because the end was kind confuse, I was waiting a more interesting one.
    This is what you could think about your hardboiled noir fiction story.
    My favorite part of this story was in wich you explain all the dinamic abut the game in the bar, how you have this especial adjective to describe in a excelent way what is happening, and make that the reader imagine all what is happening in this moment of the story.
    in this moment I remember not in a perfect way the line but is like a paragraph that is when you talk about the two principal characters how thay interact each other, and how they began to talk and give a good air in this story, a good breath.
    all the hardboiled stories identify because a specific thing, all these stories that we have read are bassed on this special topic and in the time that we read this excelent story I feel reading this class of genre... and I identify it because the way that it is telling, how it is passing word by word it is so interesting to read it!!!!

    At last I want to tell you Luis that I would like that you would let pocho another another hard boiled fiction story, in where we can identify what is happening in there, what is happening in the story paragraph by paragraph, and fell inside of us what is wrong with this story.
    later i would write the specific line that I like very much that in this moment I don't remeber well this would be later.

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  2. Oh I forgot it excelent picture it reflects his personality!!!
    the books in the table, the ones taht are back of he. It reflects the excelent author that he is...

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  3. Hey there my friend! Good story that you wrote!
    The best part was when the supposed Mr ¨Jones¨was telling Quint that he may be a serial murderer, that he likes killing because it makes him feel good. Also when he begins describing how he will kill his next victim...Patiently, knowing him better, and when a bad move arrived he will kill the victim. And the best part is when he already told Mr Quint indirectly that he was his next victim, and in a sudden he changes the direction of the conversation saying that this may be a lie just for fun, and because thats what the liars game is about....lying...That was an awesome part.

    My favorite line was on last page, on last paragraph, where its said:¨He slid off his stool, stood poised behind me. I just sat there; It was as if I were paralyzed.
    ´your call, Mr. Quint`, he said. And he was gone into the night.

    So... about changing something, it would be difficult to see what to change...Maybe the lenght of the story could had been longer...jejeje, thats the only change I will remarke, because this was a cool text to read.

    About if the story is Hardboiled/noir, it defenetly is because:
    First:You wouldnt put us to read a no Hardboiled story
    Second: Because this is all related with a type of murder, combined with a dark setting, a dark conflict, a mysterious and unpredictable antagonist...and more things like that...
    Ps: Be well...with points or without points...Because i had spend 6 non recoverable minutes of my life.

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  5. Well and here is an interview that I made to bill..lets check out what he answer:


    1) What kind of things spark ideas for you?

    1a) Anything and everything can trigger an idea -- newspaper articles, a fact or concept in a nonfiction book or novel or film, lines from a song or poem, etc. As I said, I have a hyper- active imagination.

    2) The characters in your work really bring life to the words. Do you base any characters on people you actually know or have met? Do you put any of yourself into the books?

    2a) I don¹t consciously base fictional characters on real people, though bits and pieces of certain individuals have been fused into characters. Murder victims, mainly. There¹s nothing more gratifying than creating a composite of people who have done you dirt or who for one reason or another you simply don¹t like and then bumping him or her off.

    Well thanks Bill for your time...

    Bill:Your welcome, I expect that helped you.Your teacher will surely give some points to you.

    As we can see in his answers, we would identify now how he reflect those ¨sparks¨of his imagination, and how he made really complete characters in a way that they would fit perfectly in a hard boiled fiction story.
    Ps: The interview was taken from http://www.mysteryone.com/Bill%20PronziniInterview.htm
    Be well.

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  6. Well done Charles it is good this interview...
    and how I said, is excellent the way of writing of this author, and how he makes a relation with this game and the "hobby of killing people"
    Luis is important you come to school because I have some questions...
    Oh and Charles, isn't a interview that you made, it's a interview that you take out of a page.
    correct your grammar my friend!!!

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  7. Hey yo man wassa!
    I think the story is great. I'd like you to borrow me "The Deadliest games". You know what I thought'd be great? If at the end, the actual killer would've been Mr. Quint, but that would have meant that a lot of stuff would've changed in the story, including the fact that the story is narrated in 1st person.

    Yo, I heard you are in Mexico. Don't get close to any mexican pig man! Hahaha...

    Anyways,I hope you have a good time out there in Mexico. I heard that the best place to go there is Cancun, and the second is the Chichenitza (or something like that) pyramids.

    Be cool...

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  9. well luis I all ready read the story and I would like to tell one part of the story that I liked so much that is when Joe and Mr. Quint began to interact, to talk each other because in this part I think that is the most important part of the story. Because in there give place the story and because of this happened the "climax"
    thanx Mr. Bill because of writing this fabulous story.

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  10. I think that we are going to have new people writing...

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  11. i like the aspect of "Jone" being clever, and well the profecional that he is at what he does. because it maskes me want to know what the victim will do against him.
    And i like the protagonist "Mr. Quint" because he is our avegare guy, naive, well without knowing what is goig on. And i like him because it makes me fell like i could do things differently if i was him.

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  12. i do like very much the story is absolutly atractive, i like the narration the characters, most jones he is a profecional in what he does, he is quite envolving and he makes the reader what to know whats true and whats false, i enjoy the story.The end let you thinking of what is happening after.

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  13. thebest part for me it was so big when joe said he was a killer and let the reader ask it self if he is gonna kill mr.quint and after he began to play with what can be real or what can be false what to believe how he said at the begining he was a god telling lies (in the game but its the same at real life) and i like when he said that it can gives a foreshadowing and mae the reader reflect

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