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Book Talk - Stephenie Meyer
Tuesday. 8.21.07 9:52 am
Last night, I went to the Stephenie Meyer book talk at the Tattered Cover Bookstore. I have always been a fan of book talks, not always book talk of people I've hear of either. Actually, I have an offal habit of showing up to book talks that I really should have known more about. Like Eragon for instance. I had heard that Eragon was a big sucess. I had heard that he was speaking that night and I had heard that he was an interesting person to listen to, so I went to the book talk. He was a good speaker and I'm glad I went (I have a signed copy of Eragon, now), but I felt sort of silly coming up to the signing table and saying, "well, no. I haven't read you book, but I will!" I still haven't finished the book. *slams head against wall.* This time, I did at least read half of the first book before I went.


This one, reminded me a lot of the Harry Potter premiers: where everyone dresses up and answers Harry Potter trivia or just randomly quizzes you on it, just to see if your a real fan. I fail miserably. All kinds of people at the talk were bearing t-shirts saying stuff like "Edward, I love you!" and "Jacob, pick me!" and stuff like that. Some of them were pretty cute, some were pretty funny. I started to wonder what it would be like to be a fan convert. Simultaneously, as I was sitting in that folding chair, midway between the front and the very back taking in the sights and sounds, I had to admit that I didn't quite feel like I belonged here.


I took a seat next to a couple of nice people from Chicago. They told me about their trip across the United States, the girl told me a little about her school and it was very interesting. The time passed easily for me.


As for the crowd, they were only waiting because they were forced to. Coming there early didn't mean the festivities hadn't begun. They talked and joked and pointed and laughed racously. A couple of girls from the Twlight series fan club kept running up and down the isle telling everyone to "shh!! they're going to kick us out!" They bonded. The time stretched on and the tension in the room mounted exponentially. The hands on my watch finally pointed to seven, the doors opened and... she came in.


A wall of screams hit the little bookstore like a nuke hitting hiroshima. You could almost swear that the books covered their ears along with me at that moment, whimpering in terror as the words were blasted from their pages and sent away, burnt and melting, into a sudden darkness. A group in the back of the crowd began to chant, "Ed-ward! Ed-ward! Ed-ward!" The author gazed around timidly, waving as she found her way to her seat. They introduced her, they asked us which 'camp' we were in: Edward or Jacob and the excitement around this 'much debated issue' called for another round of screaming. A stainglass breaking whine sprung from the inexpert choir of girls, all trying vainly to be sopranoes. They loved it. They owned it. They probably would have screamed all day if they thought it was appropriate. I'm glad they had fun. Unfortunately, I've never been much of a screamer. "It's a lot like getting drunk" I thought dispondantly, "It's only fun when you're doing it."


The author, with an expression of someone who is trying to compliment a bad dish, skipped her "talk" and went straight to questions. It was the usual string of questions: what is your advice to young writers?, why did you do X in book X? What will happen in the new book? What is your writing process? The answers were dolled out dutifully and then the signings began.


Numbers ranged 1-50, line up. Numbers ranged 51-100 line up, etc and so forth until they filed us all through the assemlby line and we were permitted to flit out of the doors.


That was it. I came to a book talk, attended a rock concert and came out of a book signing. I walked out and phoned my mom to tell her why I was so late. She asked if I had fun. Yeah, I said, sure, it was fun. I had met some interesting people from Chicago after all. So yeah, I had fun. It was just an interesting experience.

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errr .... so much of a bunch of intellectual people at a book talk. i'm going to a tea session with an upcoming author in Malaysia this saturday. pretty sure, we old folks won't be like that especially me since i haven't read his book.

i don't really like eragon but i just felt it was too long winded. i wanted to finish it since all authors should get a chance but eragon was seriously stretching my nerves far too long. sadly to say, i'm planning to sell that book.
» renaye on 2007-08-21 09:33:43

nice exp
» jolenesiah on 2007-08-22 05:26:54

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