#meloromantics

the fucking one abt the scientists saying unlimited clean energy is ready to go whenever gives me heartburn on sight

Right?  Nothing makes you hate your belongings or a dead person’s belongings more than having to move them from one place to another. 

I think the best/worst thing I can do for you is show you the picture he took announcing that they were having a child together.

I’m very hopeful that the show will be better than the book, because the story will benefit from a more experienced hand plus I hope that typical HBO Prestige TV tricks will make the moments I loved stand out more as exactly as creepy as they should be.  

I think Dark Places is better than Sharp Objects but neither of them are that great compared to Gone Girl, which is where she really hit her stride as a writer and in some ways I think of them as a bunch of bad habits she had to get out of the way in order to write Gone Girl, including, I think, accepting and embracing her tendency to write Mary Sue power fantasies.   

I also think of Sharp Objects as being very similar to The Shining.  It’s got some good, iconic, memorable bits...but it’s also a young writer’s early novel where a Shirley Jackson template is used to complain about your relationship with alcohol, with your parents and with your grim career prospects as a former English major.