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Post by Trace on May 25, 2017 23:12:27 GMT
I hope an unabridged audio is in the future for 'The Heiress of Collinwood"!
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Post by Zagreus on May 26, 2017 1:00:41 GMT
I hope an unabridged audio is in the future for 'The Heiress of Collinwood"! I keep sending audible emails requesting it, so hopefully they eventually get the message
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Post by barnabasbytes on May 30, 2017 20:30:08 GMT
I have the first three audibles, but I read them all first and have only listened to the unabridged AD once. #2 & #3 I've only heard sections. There's something to love about all of them. But I haven't made myself sit down and read #4. I keep hoping Audible will ask her to record it.
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Post by Trace on May 31, 2017 0:46:06 GMT
I have the first three audibles, but I read them all first and have only listened to the unabridged AD once. #2 & #3 I've only heard sections. There's something to love about all of them. But I haven't made myself sit down and read #4. I keep hoping Audible will ask her to record it. I haven't read it yet either...and I'm really anxious to get to it, but I'm a stickler for getting caught up on everything in the pipeline in the order that I put it there! And nothing gets "bumped" to make way for something else. All in good time!
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Post by agentten on Sept 13, 2017 20:49:39 GMT
I read "Heiress" over the weekend and really enjoyed it. It was nice to have Vicki back and give her some focus. Parker smartly embraces Vicki's character flaws and works out ways for Vicki to acknowledge them while helping the reader to understand why they exist. Vicki matures in the book and Parker manages to give our heroin agency in her story without abandoning what makes Vicki the character she is. I was also quite satisfied with Parker's ultimate answer to Vicki's past (though there's still a bit of mystery left in the form of a significant unanswered question).
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Post by joehart1962 on Sept 15, 2017 2:42:47 GMT
I was also quite satisfied with Parker's ultimate answer to Vicki's past (though there's still a bit of mystery left in the form of a significant unanswered question). What's the question?
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Post by agentten on Sept 15, 2017 4:45:14 GMT
I was also quite satisfied with Parker's ultimate answer to Vicki's past (though there's still a bit of mystery left in the form of a significant unanswered question). What's the question? The exact identity of Vicki's father.
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Post by joehart1962 on Sept 16, 2017 7:14:58 GMT
The exact identity of Vicki's father. That is answered in Lara's previous novel, "Wolf Moon Rising." It deals extensively with the great love of Elizabeth's life.
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Post by agentten on Sept 16, 2017 16:01:38 GMT
The exact identity of Vicki's father. That is answered in Lara's previous novel, "Wolf Moon Rising." It deals extensively with the great love of Elizabeth's life. Ah, thank you. I will check that out. I'm reading The Salem Branch right now and have Wolf Moon Rising up next in my read pile.
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Post by joehart1962 on Sept 17, 2017 5:17:21 GMT
That is answered in Lara's previous novel, "Wolf Moon Rising." It deals extensively with the great love of Elizabeth's life. Ah, thank you. I will check that out. I'm reading The Salem Branch right now and have Wolf Moon Rising up next in my read pile. I think "Wolf Moon Rising" is her best work -- vivid, densely plotted with lots of surprises, and quite a shock or two ...
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Post by Zagreus on Nov 23, 2017 21:27:34 GMT
So, with minimal editing, how would one makes these fit more smoothly with the BF stuff? There's a decent amount of stuff that can be handwaved away, but some of it is more rough than others... Some things are really minor, like the a Collins in the 1690s being listed as a brother rather than a son, some of it already fits quite well, like Charity Trask having become a bitter old crone after being crippled in an "accident", but then there's other things, like, when things take place, or which characters are around and alive, etc.
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Post by Zagreus on Nov 24, 2017 23:56:00 GMT
I think the first thing you could do that could go a long way is set Angelique's Descent's framing sequence and the present day sections of The Salem Branch and Wolf Moon Rising be in 1970, rather than 1971, which moves Heiress forward to 1971, rather than 1972. This eliminates the major conflict with Old Acquaintance where Cassandra is out and about on New Year's Eve 1971 and Quentin is still around for the events of Heiress after deciding he needs to leave.
The parentage thing... is... I think you just have to roll with it. I've commented before on how I think those things could be explained away, but on a surface level, I think it's just one of those Dark Shadows continuity things you just have to shrug your shoulders for. The important part, that she's Liz's daughter, is preserved regardless.
Shifting things a year earlier also makes Heiress work as a nice transition, between the Collinwood-centered first three novels and the BF stuff which focuses more on the town and its people.
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Post by Trace on Nov 25, 2017 0:15:43 GMT
I have said before that I don’t like to try and connect them. There are so many different media releases (novels, Ross books, comics, audios, films, Sam Hall ending, remakes, etc.) that I think it’s best to keep them all separate as different parallel times. To me, they work best as multiple separate continuity time bands. To choose some as part of the main TV series timeline and others not, seems exclusionary to the others. I’m just an all or none person I guess.
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Post by Trace on Nov 25, 2017 0:22:30 GMT
I forgot to mention that the audios, of course, are the exception. Mainly because they never ignored continuity and fit perfectly within the TV series universe. There has always been a successful attempt at staying within that universe. All the others are alternate continuations.
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Post by omega on Nov 25, 2017 0:40:15 GMT
I forgot to mention that the audios, of course, are the exception. Mainly because they never ignored continuity and fit perfectly within the TV series universe. There has always been a successful attempt at staying within that universe. All the others are alternate continuations. The non-audios are other time bands. One character from The Flip Side says that he saw versions of her as a vampire (House of Dark Shadows) and a werewolf (the Tim Burton film). With Angelique's Descent the Big Finish audiobook excises the framing device, and any conflict with TV show episodes can be explained by Angelique's POV or simply Lara Parker not having access the internet at the time of writing (the mid-90's, hence why the Miranda DuVal aspect of her backstory isn't mentioned).
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Post by newt5996 on Jan 9, 2020 23:52:28 GMT
So I've found myself recently getting back into Dark Shadows. I've tentatively started a rewatch from the very beginning (10 episodes in, which I hope to actually complete this time around) and a friend sent me copies of all four Lara Parker Dark Shadows novels. I promised to review them on my blog and will start reading in the coming days once I finish the Witcher novel 5 and Doctor Who: Lucifer Rising. So what are everyone's opinions on these four books?
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Post by Zagreus on Jan 10, 2020 15:18:35 GMT
I'm quite fond of them myself, and handwavingly include them in my full chronology of the series There's a few oddities here and there that make me wonder how well she actually remembered the events of the series while writing but for the most part they're pretty spot on and even manage to dovetail nicely with Big Finish's output fairly well.
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Post by Digi on Jan 10, 2020 15:56:29 GMT
I'm quite fond of them myself, and handwavingly include them in my full chronology of the series There's a few oddities here and there that make me wonder how well she actually remembered the events of the series while writing but for the most part they're pretty spot on and even manage to dovetail nicely with Big Finish's output fairly well. I would imagine that working on a show that's just non-stop filming, it would probably all blend together after not too long!
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Post by Zagreus on Jan 10, 2020 16:14:40 GMT
Heh, fair point. Also, when she first started writing her books, I don't think the show was widely available for viewing anywhere!
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Post by Trace on Jan 11, 2020 1:00:04 GMT
So I've found myself recently getting back into Dark Shadows. I've tentatively started a rewatch from the very beginning (10 episodes in, which I hope to actually complete this time around) and a friend sent me copies of all four Lara Parker Dark Shadows novels. I promised to review them on my blog and will start reading in the coming days once I finish the Witcher novel 5 and Doctor Who: Lucifer Rising. So what are everyone's opinions on these four books? They’re all great reads....and Lara Parker is an excellent writer. I think you’ll enjoy them! To my mind, they form their own continuity separate from the the series. I know others have made attempts to connect them, and that’s fine. I have all four trade paperbacks (they make an attractive set!) and also the first three unabridged audios. Lara is, not surprisingly, an excellent reader as well. Her words, her voice! I keep hoping that she’ll record the fourth book eventually, because I love audiobooks, probably as much as I love reading!
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