Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
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PARASITE open thread!

To (somewhat belatedly) celebrate the release of Parasite, here. Have an open thread to discuss the book.

THERE WILL BE SPOILERS.

Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned. (I will not reply to every comment; I call partial comment amnesty. But I may well join some of the discussion, or answer questions or whatnot.)

You can also start a book discussion at my website forums, with less need to be concerned that I will see everything you say! In case you wanted, you know, discussion free of authorial influence, since I always wind up getting involved in these things.

Have fun!
Tags: mira grant, pandemic time, parasite
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faecat

November 11 2013, 18:38:13 UTC 3 years ago

"Silent Hill" is one of my favorite Seanan songs, chock full of lines with beautiful and haunting imagery. In fact, I've contemplated a tattoo of the line "sometimes love is treason." So imagine my level of squee when I started recognizing lines from the song in Parasite, attributed to a children's book. And then there were more excerpts from this book - some that I recognized from the song, others that I didn't, but really wanted to.

So what I wondered was twofold -- first, which came first, "Silent Hill" or the theoretical children's book? And second, will we ever get a chance to see more of the text of that book, or did only the excerpts needed for Parasite get written? I'm assuming the latter, but not gonna lie, if the children's book (or even just the text of it, not necessarily a fancy published book format) were to eventually become available a la Dean Koontz's Book of Counted Sorrows (which he excerpted in about four kafrillion novels before he actually wrote the thing) I would be all over that like a fangirling squeeing thing.

shiyiya

November 19 2013, 09:27:07 UTC 3 years ago

I cosign this comment (aside from the tattoo thing). I spent most of my time reading Parasite listening to Silent Hill on repeat. I squeed a lot!