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twilamarie2003
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I just went through all of the pages in this thread. What an amazing amount of information. I will have to go re-read now. Thank you for coming to answer questions for us. You are wonderful.
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Thank you Cassandra!
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Nicky
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| Cassandra, thanks for taking time out of what must be a very busy schedule for us. My question is, what books have inspired your writing? Are there any books that made you think, "I'd really like to explore that topic in my own work?" |
There are a lot of books that have inspired me — it's so hard to boil them all down. I'll pick one: Jace is probably inspired in part by one of my favorite fictional heroes: Francis Crawford of Lymond from Dorothy Dunnett's The Lymond Chronicles (they're historical fiction and each one is a huge brick of a book - there are six - but they're so rewarding and they have a great romance in them. And Lymond is both very sexy and very complicated.) |
*OME*! I just read this and couldn't believe it! I think I might have stopped breathing. Dorothy Dunnett is my FAVORITE (Don't throw stones at me I love Stephanie and Cassandra, but I've known Dorothy longer  ). Over the last two days I just read CoB & CoA and then had nothing to read and pulled out Game of Kings (My copy of which is falling to pieces) because I just needed something I knew would be great to fill the void. As I was reading it (His drunken speech at Midculter/then also the thing about how people who love him are destroyed), I kept thinking how Jace (and Edward) is like Lymond. It is so nice to know you have read her. I feel she is like the most under-appreciated author ever. It is almost impossible to convert people, because the prose is so, so dense that people give up before they can really get into the flow. I try to tell them it is like poetry, you just have to let it wash over you at first, even if you don't get it. Still, I've only gotten one person hooked. AHHHHHH. I feel so satisfied.
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cassandraclare
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OME! I just read this and couldn't believe it! I think I might have stopped breathing. Dorothy Dunnett is my FAVORITE (Don't throw stones at me I love Stephanie and Cassandra, but I've known Dorothy longer ). Over the last two days I just read CoB & CoA and then had nothing to read and pulled out Game of Kings (My copy of which is falling to pieces) because I just needed something I knew would be great to fill the void. As I was reading it (His drunken speech at Midculter/then also the thing about how people who love him are destroyed), I kept thinking how Jace (and Edward) is like Lymond. It is so nice to know you have read her. I feel she is like the most under-appreciated author ever. It is almost impossible to convert people, because the prose is so, so dense that people give up before they can really get into the flow. I try to tell them it is like poetry, you just have to let it wash over you at first, even if you don't get it. Still, I've only gotten one person hooked. AHHHHHH. I feel so satisfied. |
Yes, I always try to mention Dorothy Dunnett as an influence when people ask me about influences, because so few people have read her, it feels like, and I really want there to be more. Her prose is very dense but very rewarding, and Lymond is one of a long line of sarcastic, poetry-quoting, sexy antiheroes that I just love. She does a wonderful job with making him sympathetic and unsympathetic at the same time.
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Erica.loves.edward
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Cassandra! Seriously you ROCK! and i love your books! AMAZING!
My hubby is reading CoB right now, and I'm pushing him to hurry up, so we can discuss it!
When i was reading CoB, i was texting kendra, a TM on here, and I was so happy when Jace and Clary finally ya know kissed and somewhat said a little of what they felt
and she didn't respond to me (rude... i know right, no actually she was waiting for me to read more  )
and THEN... *ducks* I about threw the book when it came out that they are brother and sister!
But after much thought, I've decided... well I PRAY that they aren't bro and sis and if they are... we'll I'll deal with it I still want them together! (not that i would normally recommend incest)
Its just that Jace..MAN! I have read a TON of books, and he just jetted into my TOP 3 fictional character boyfriends!
As i'm writing this I realize that I sound about 12...lol, but I just really love your books, and how everything comes together and your creativity!
Now for my questions, I was reading somewhere, that are characters in your books that correspond to Holy Blacks Tithe series, (which are fabulous also BTW) NOW i have this huge problem somtimes i get reading way too fast and get excited and miss details, so i have to do re-reads alot
so my question again... which characters are these?
Thanks so much for answering all of our questions! love it that you are able to take time out of I'm sure your CRAZY HECTIC schedule to do this!
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Nicky
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OME! I just read this and couldn't believe it! I think I might have stopped breathing. Dorothy Dunnett is my FAVORITE (Don't throw stones at me I love Stephanie and Cassandra, but I've known Dorothy longer ). Over the last two days I just read CoB & CoA and then had nothing to read and pulled out Game of Kings (My copy of which is falling to pieces) because I just needed something I knew would be great to fill the void. As I was reading it (His drunken speech at Midculter/then also the thing about how people who love him are destroyed), I kept thinking how Jace (and Edward) is like Lymond. It is so nice to know you have read her. I feel she is like the most under-appreciated author ever. It is almost impossible to convert people, because the prose is so, so dense that people give up before they can really get into the flow. I try to tell them it is like poetry, you just have to let it wash over you at first, even if you don't get it. Still, I've only gotten one person hooked. AHHHHHH. I feel so satisfied. |
Yes, I always try to mention Dorothy Dunnett as an influence when people ask me about influences, because so few people have read her, it feels like, and I really want there to be more. Her prose is very dense but very rewarding, and Lymond is one of a long line of sarcastic, poetry-quoting, sexy antiheroes that I just love. She does a wonderful job with making him sympathetic and unsympathetic at the same time.
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Ok, after I started breathing and managed to reply to the fact that you liked Dorothy Dunnett, I went back and finished reading the thread, only to discover you also like Dorothy Sayers! I felt a pretty serious squee coming on, along with a desperate marriage proposal. I am barely containing the marriage proposal because you mention your boyfriend quite fondly on your blog, and I am actually already happily married, albeit to a man who has two reactions when the Dunnett books come off the bookshelf, 1. Eye rolling 2. Reminding me about the time I first read them and basically disappeared for a month (and then spent the next year relating everything I happened across to the books). In my defense, I tried to share them with him, but every time I would come bouncing into wherever he was and read a passage while swooning, he would groan loudly and grouch, "What does that even mean?"
To save this thread from becoming my own personal, "Why I love Dorothy Dunnett" thread, I am going to take you up on the "I love getting email responses after people have read my books" comment and actually write to you.
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cassandraclare
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Now for my questions, I was reading somewhere, that are characters in your books that correspond to Holy Blacks Tithe series, (which are fabulous also BTW) NOW i have this huge problem somtimes i get reading way too fast and get excited and miss details, so i have to do re-reads alot
so my question again... which characters are these?
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Glad you're enjoying the books! The characters from Tithe are in City of Bones, p. 173 in my version. "Clary saw a girl about her own age with a smoothly shaved bald head leaning against a brown-skinned boy with
dreadlocks, his face adorned with a dozen piercings. He
turned his head as the carriage rolled by as if he could see it,
and she caught the gleam of his eyes. One of them was clouded,
as though it had no pupil."
If you've read Valiant, you may recognize them as Luis and Val.
Cassie
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cassandraclare
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Ok, after I started breathing and managed to reply to the fact that you liked Dorothy Dunnett, I went back and finished reading the thread, only to discover you also like Dorothy Sayers! I felt a pretty serious squee coming on, along with a desperate marriage proposal. I am barely containing the marriage proposal because you mention your boyfriend quite fondly on your blog, and I am actually already happily married, albeit to a man who has two reactions when the Dunnett books come off the bookshelf, 1. Eye rolling 2. Reminding me about the time I first read them and basically disappeared for a month (and then spent the next year relating everything I happened across to the books). In my defense, I tried to share them with him, but every time I would come bouncing into wherever he was and read a passage while swooning, he would groan loudly and grouch, "What does that even mean?"
To save this thread from becoming my own personal, "Why I love Dorothy Dunnett" thread, I am going to take you up on the "I love getting email responses after people have read my books" comment and actually write to you. |
The two Dorothys: Sayers and Dunnett. Maybe it's something about the name? My boyfriend loves Sayers, but I haven't gotten him to read more than one of the Lymond books yet. He always referred to Lymond as "one of those heroes whose rapier wit hides his inner pain", a description which I eventually used in CoB to describe Jace.
Thanks for the email; it takes me forever to get through email — I have a backlog of it — but I always answer all of them.
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TwilaholicMom
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Hi Cassandra! Thanks for answering all of our questions. I love the series so far (I think I'm my 10th re-read - it's in my 'book diet' rotation lol) and I can't wait for CoG to finally come out. My question is this:
Clary has had several dreams that seemed prophetic in nature. Will this turn out to be another of her special powers or is it just a really great way to give us clues?
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cassandraclare
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Hi Cassandra! Thanks for answering all of our questions. I love the series so far (I think I'm my 10th re-read - it's in my 'book diet' rotation lol) and I can't wait for CoG to finally come out. My question is this:
Clary has had several dreams that seemed prophetic in nature. Will this turn out to be another of her special powers or is it just a really great way to give us clues? |
It's not a special power of *hers* — it's more someone trying to communicate something to her.
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Hi Cassandra! Thanks for answering all of our questions. I love the series so far (I think I'm my 10th re-read - it's in my 'book diet' rotation lol) and I can't wait for CoG to finally come out. My question is this:
Clary has had several dreams that seemed prophetic in nature. Will this turn out to be another of her special powers or is it just a really great way to give us clues? |
It's not a special power of *hers* — it's more someone trying to communicate something to her. |
OHHHH! I think I just TOTALLY figured something out!!!!
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Nicky
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Ok, I'm not one, generally, to ask questions about books I read because I kind of figure I should understand what the author meant me to understand, and if I don't, maybe I wasn't meant to. I don't know if that makes sense. For the most part any question I want the answer to, I figure the answer is, "Wait and see" or possibly, "If you are going to read my books, at least pay attention." However, I recently wondered this:
When Clary has just discovered that Valentine is her father and she and Luke are discussing it, there are a few times where either he doesn't answer or they get interrupted. I'm wondering if that is significant. I'm not going to ask what the significance is, but just, is it?
Here are the passages in question:
"Jonathan," she said softly. "He would have been older than me? A year older?"
Luke said nothing.
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"And when you said 'Clary isn't Jonathan,' you meant my brother. My mom was so overprotective of me because she'd already had one child who died."
Before Luke could reply...
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I'm wondering what Luke knows (if anything)....
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Nicky
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| Umm, was Stephen's first wife Luke's sister?
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