One more thing

[thisbluespirit]

I knew there was something else: and I bought (as a reward for doing hard stuff, including some money-saving/gaining things) the TV tie-in book of Enemy at the Door for 1p on Amazon. I was worried, because TV novelisations do tend to be a special kind of terrible. Anyway, it arrived today! And I will say more some other time (now, I have my parents up here - almost a rl again! Also I should answer comments), because it took a sudden lurch into making me wonder if it was being novelised by Ben Steed (and nobody wants that), but I got my money's worth by about p3 when the author had an go at describing Alfred Burke's face (as Major Richter):

"He [a random Police Inspector] sensed at once that Richter had a capacity to charm that might cloud a man's judgement... Richter was too quiet, too urbane, with a face of that ascetic cast which is acquired by saints, librarians and aristocratic confidence tricksters... Perhaps aware of this himself, Richter had grown a beard, but it did little to hide his saintly expression..."

Alfred Burke grew a beard to spare us all his face, because it was Too Much, trufax, people. Well, there's one mystery of life solved.

(It is very odd about this. It lovingly describes some of the characters as played by the particular actors, down to funny little quirks of how they played a scene and then others not, or he seems to have decided to make up his own version.)

Anyway, "saints, librarians and aristocratic confidence tricksters" :lol: :lol: :lol:. Gosh. I don't know why I went for being a librarian myself, then.

Comments

[oonaseckar.livejournal.com]

The third option sounds the most fun. Pretty minimal qualification, too: I might check the job boards, see if there are any vacancies...

Some novelisations are great, though. 'Desperately Seeking Susan', that one is unhinged and pretty hilarious, goes off on tangents the filmmakers never thought of. The 'Angels' (80's nursey thing?) ones are also good: bleak and grim in the extreme, but good. Also I was going to say 'Johnny Jarvis', but checked and it's a novel adaptation rather than the other way around.

Maybe he just has favourite characters? Then comes to others, goes, 'You, I hate you, your scene is getting cut right down. You're goin' daaahhn!'

[thisbluespirit]

The third option sounds the most fun. Pretty minimal qualification, too: I might check the job boards, see if there are any vacancies...

But do you have that kind of face? Do people also mistake you for a saint or a librarian? :-D

This is not a great novelisation, sad to say. Four episodes of a well-written, balanced and thoughtful TV series compressed into a one dimensional novelisation with bonus missing sexism. Still, the author like describing Alfred Burke, and he did supply the extra info I hoped it might have, so I'm not complaining too hard.

Maybe he just has favourite characters? Then comes to others, goes, 'You, I hate you, your scene is getting cut right down. You're goin' daaahhn!'

It doesn't even seem to be that logical. He describes several people in loving detail at the start, and nearly has a fit over how beautiful he thinks Clare and Peter are, and then the only people he describes using actors' little quirks are Alfred Burke's character, and John Malcolm's (and he doesn't seem to like Kluge, he also says he has "little piggy eyes" and, yes, I do quote.) But then I kind of gave up expecting sense or good stuff after the early bout of extreme sexism.