I stayed up all night last night reading "Body Language" by James W. Hall (it doesnt help that I went to school with someone with the same name, he was good looking and always nice to me. But we were just classmates not much else.)
It was a good read, I had only planned on reading just the first 3-4 chapters last night then go to sleep, well I end up reading the whole 32 chapters in one sitting. Boy am I tired. It is a thriller book, but if you dont like cursing, blood guts and gore and the strange overtones then I wouldnt recommend this book. In several places the book made me stop and think "My God this author is a sicko!" What I didnt like was the cussing during the narrative. I dont mind cussing in a book if its in the character to cuss but never the narrator. whats odd is that 2 of the characters reminded me of people that I know in real life. Unfortunately one of the characters reminded me of my ex-husband. BOO HISS!!:thumbd:
But on another note I am going to make my first actual attempt at a novel. NO MORE FALSE STARTS FOR ME! Im in the middle of character development and brainstorming for ideas.
My story is basically about a young woman whose life is changed drastically when she is diagnosed in her 20s with a rare disease that slowly robs her of her hearing and vision. some 20 years later she is using a CI to hear and her vision is limited to making out the shapes of objects, no color or depth distinction. She eventually does have a family during that 20 year span, but the story starts to take off when her doctor tells her about a new drug that can possibly reverse the effects of this disease over a 2-3 year period, well 3 years into the trial period, news gets out that the drug is bad and causes cancer in most patients that take the drug over a number of years. The drug is pulled and slowly over a number of years the woman not only loses her sight and hearing again, she also develops cancer. She files a lawsuit, but someone from the drug company feels she knows too much and wants her offed, as in there is no way she will be able to testify in court because what she knows can send the drug company into an Enron like shut-down. I havent decided yet if my main character will live to the end or not, but I need to find a way for her to grow and flourish through the relationships she makes so that the story can touch my audience in some way or at least make them stop and think a bit. Something like that. I hope to have a first draft of Chapter 1 finished in a couple of weeks.