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Cassandra Clare and the Panned Picture
When we last left out heroine she was leafing some thorny mahogany pickle to her partner-in-crime to go to her big movie premiere.

Well the first of the Mortal Instrument movies is out, ladies and gents!

While not doing terribly bad (Sony had nothing to lose apparently), it didn't exactly shine either taking in only $9 million through the weekend and $14 million at the moment.

So Cassie Claire, er, Clare, has had to do a wee bit of backpedaling.
Covered here but the important tweets are at the bottom.

You see, she didn't really have any control over the film and so if it bombs, it's the movie producer's fault. Nope, zero input on the whole dealio.

Will there be a sequel, given the budget versus the income? Will it matter? Who knows. Expect to see the Mortal Instruments t-shirts next month at your local Hot Topic and see Cassie Clare in her next adventure, Dancing With Wool!

(It could be wood again. Or Woof? Woozie? Dancing With Who?)

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dunmurderin
2013-08-31 04:41 am UTC (link)

I'd also recommend his short-story collections, especially Night Shift and Skeleton Crew. The story "The Boogeyman" gave me the screaming heebie-jeebies and "The Mist" still makes me more than a little nervous on foggy days.

As far as novels, I recommend Carrie and Eyes of the Dragon, which was a fantasy novel he wrote for his daughter (iirc). These are also shorter works and when King is writing shorter pieces, he seems to have better focus on the story than he does in some of his longer works (though, that said, the expanded version of The Stand really did add something to the story).

I'm also pretty fond of Christine and Talisman

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	rhiannonmr 2013-08-31 08:20 am UTC (link)
	The ONE book I always recommend by King is The Stand. That book set the bar on apocolyptic plagues for me. The miniseries was pretty much just okay. I read the long version of it and the one thing that jarred a bit was some of the 70s references like Captain Trips and such, but otherwise? Excellent book. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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