SF Site Interview with LKH
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lkh_lashoutsI found the following interview with Ms. Hamilton done September 2004 by the SF Site. The Complete Interview
There were a few choice bits that just had to be brought up. Ms. Hamilton is in italics. My comments are plain.
I have two degrees: English and biology. . . . I also was about two or three classes from having a history or Political Science major (it would have depended on what classes I finished up with, which the degree would have been in).
This is the first time I have seen her mention an English degree. The verve and originality for punctuation that she displays in her published works make one wonder how she got an English degree. I was under the impression that to acquire an English degree one had to grasp at least the basics of punctuation; full stop, comma and apostrophe.
Between the age of thirteen and fourteen I discovered fantasy and horror. From that moment on, I was hooked.
WTF! All those times she fondly talked about wanting to watch horror movies a 2, and Granny telling her fables didn't happen? Or don't they count as horror and fantasy?
And then farther on in the interview she says this:
I've been fascinated with horror movies since I was a very little girl, like under six. When I discovered the old Hammer vampire films around seven or so, I was enthralled. . . . my Scottish-Irish grandmother used to tell me that Rawhead and Bloody Bones would get me if I wasn't good.
And just something unabashedly interesting and potentially good.
We will be going back to New Mexico and doing a follow up book with Edward and his would-be family. We will see how the children have coped with what happened. . . . [it will happen during one of] the next five books probably.
There were a few choice bits that just had to be brought up. Ms. Hamilton is in italics. My comments are plain.
I have two degrees: English and biology. . . . I also was about two or three classes from having a history or Political Science major (it would have depended on what classes I finished up with, which the degree would have been in).
This is the first time I have seen her mention an English degree. The verve and originality for punctuation that she displays in her published works make one wonder how she got an English degree. I was under the impression that to acquire an English degree one had to grasp at least the basics of punctuation; full stop, comma and apostrophe.
Between the age of thirteen and fourteen I discovered fantasy and horror. From that moment on, I was hooked.
WTF! All those times she fondly talked about wanting to watch horror movies a 2, and Granny telling her fables didn't happen? Or don't they count as horror and fantasy?
And then farther on in the interview she says this:
I've been fascinated with horror movies since I was a very little girl, like under six. When I discovered the old Hammer vampire films around seven or so, I was enthralled. . . . my Scottish-Irish grandmother used to tell me that Rawhead and Bloody Bones would get me if I wasn't good.
And just something unabashedly interesting and potentially good.
We will be going back to New Mexico and doing a follow up book with Edward and his would-be family. We will see how the children have coped with what happened. . . . [it will happen during one of] the next five books probably.
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Date: 2006-04-23 04:26 pm (UTC)I don't know how it is elsewhere with science, but where I studied? if you could not write a coherent essay (with proper punctuation and references) then there was a good chance you would fail the course and have to repeat. And scientific essays are a tough beast to write - you have to be coherent, pursuasive, intelligent and get all your research across in a succinct manner. You have no real room to waffle on and dance about the point - you make your point, you back it up, you move on. It's taught me how to write with brutal efficiency. Also, I pwn at essay writing.
Other disciplines aren't quite so tough on essay writing - I know in psychology you could get away with fudging a bunch of stuff so long as you had evidence to back up your opinion.
And for creative writing (yes, I did that too!) - that was the class I slept through and got high distinctions. Mostly because A) I'd learned how to write the Essays of Doom, B) can do it without excess fluff, and C) know thy punctuation and spelling.
Every time I read about how she/Merita have a biology degree, I imagine her saying it in a Ralph Wiggum voice. "I'm a scientist!"
No, lady, you're not. You're an embarrassment to the sisterhood. It's hard enough to be a woman that studies science, and it's people like you that give us all a bad wrap. Get off my fucking island. Now.