Stranger than Fiction Review

This one had an interesting concept, an actor well known for working in funny movies which get screwed up half way and a review stating it is an average movie. Average movie it is for it is not some hard core art cinema nor is it your daily dose of entertainment, its just sweet.

Well it's probably one of the sweetest movies i have seen in recent times. Something will neither carry forward nor brand classic but one which I would not say was a waste of time. Seems ironical the review, but then that is how the movie is pretty ironical.

It's about a writer having a writer's block who doesn't know how to kill her central character. Somewhere around the corner in real life is her central character, a real living human being who can hear her narrate his story as she goes about writing the novel. Now she wants to kill him and he wants to stop her. What happens makes the story.

It's a watch a forget cute movie which does not leave you laugh till you drop but instead end with a sail and thinking what the hell, it was not so bad, I did not waste time or money.

Reviewers say its average, I say you can watch it once, either it's the really cute actor of a very weird story line, it definitely worth a watch....

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About Lawrence Watt-Evans

Anyone else read this particular author? His books aren't flashy or epic but they've all been particular favorites of mine. His characters are almost universally good, rational people who mean well, most of his conflicts arise due to accidents rather that Rampaging Evil, things generally work out reasonably well, and all in all his books are just solid, pleasant little books. They do not have the scale and sweep of Jordan or Martin, and they aren't as evocative as Gaiman or Mieville, but his characters are likeable, his plots solid, and his books fun little reads.

Just as one example, I just finished a book of his titled "Ithanalin's Restoration." The plot was not epic; a wizard's animation spell goes wrong, spreading his consciousness out into various items of furniture which run away and his apprentice has to recapture them all in order to restore him to life. It basically reads as a "slice of life" story line, in a fantasy setting -- the sort of event that might makes the local news in a fantasy world, but would normally happen in the "background" of other, larger-scale tales (indeed, this book is actually set concurrently with another book in the same setting, and happens in the background of that more epic story line).

Anyway, he is written several books but I have not really found anyone else who reads him; usually I find them in the dustier sections of used bookstores, and that makes me sad 'cause he is a better author than that. I think it may just be that as his stories are less flashy he doesn't get the same degree of attention other authors do.