Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series to go to the big screen...

[YellowRubberDuckie]

I know she's a republican. Doesn't mean her craft isn't GREAT! I've read and reread these books, and yesterday I picked up Blowfly, the latest Scarpetta incarnation at Barnes and Noble. Then I did a search and found out that Sony has bought the rights to two of the books, the fourth and the eighth, and they were in talks to buy all 11 books in the series to be movies. I'm sooo excited. Anyone else read these books?
Here's an article about this: http://www.richmond.com/output.cfm?ID=1348494&vertical=
Apparently, the guy who wrote Saving Private Ryan and The Patriot is adapting books four and eight to the big screen.
Duckie

[flamingyouth]

1. "Post-Mortem" is still my favorite of hers

Scared the bejeebus out of me when I first read it. :scared:

[asjr]

2. I have neglected her in recent years. Must get back to her.

I like Edna Buchanan a lot. I think the last Cornwell I read was The Body Farm. She is a good writer.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

3. You must read the entire series before reading The Last Precinct...

...and BlowFly. So much has happened!! SOOO good.
Duckie

[asjr]

8. I'll do that. After my sister gave me this computer and I got on DU, my

reading has really become lame.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

11. REading is NEVER lame!!!

I love books that involve my heart and soul. Like how much I love the Harry Potter books. Damn, I love those books. Reading rocks.
Duckie

[Kenneth ken]

4. what to say, what to say...

I very much liked her first few books. I thought it was brilliant that she didn't glamorize her killers in any way, shape or form. The killers were a complete non-entity, with just the results of their crimes to show they existed at all; until the end of the story, where they showed up as actual characters, briefly.

Then she went away from that, and started including narrative from the killer's point of view. As though the killer had some actual worth as a human. Disappointing, but still good writing. She continues to sex up her killers, giving them more and more "time as people" in the story, and every time she does that, gets farther away from what was brilliant about her early writing.

I was very disappointed by Trace (spoiler):
Benton Wesley was dead. It's bullshit to bring characters back from the dead! / spoiler.

I think I am probably done with reading her work now, as in she's off my list. Might as well sell her stuff to Hollyweird and let them trash it up. Her credibility is already in decline.

[NV Whino]

6. Also her Jack the Ripper: Case Solved

is totally ridiculous. This woman spend $4 million doing research and buying paintings and so called evidence. It all still comes down to circumstancial. She didn't prove a thing. I can think of a lot better things to do with $4 million.

[Kenneth ken]

7. I skipped that one.

I didn't actually believe she would be able to come up with DNA or any other sort of absolute evidence to make a case, so didn't see her actually being able to make a definitive conclusion. And without that, what's the point.

At the end of Trace, where there is the author blurb about who Patricia Cornwell is, it mentions that she has set up an organization of some sort that develops(?) investigative techniques, or something...

Anyway some sort of criminal research-type institute. Obviously I haven't read up on it, or what it does, or tries to do, but it at least vaguely sounded like a decent use of some of her money.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

12. He comes back in like the 15th chapter of BlowFly...

[NV Whino]

5. Loved her first books

But I think she's gone off the deep end with her latest ones.

Re filming books: I keep wondering who will play Scarpetta. Any thoughts?

[mapster]

9. I totally agree

I think her ego has gotten way too inflated. Her last two or three books are not up to the same standard as her earlier work. Did anyone see the documentary about the Jack the Ripper book? All those close up shots of her gazing soulfully out the window of what appeared to be a private jet. Creepy.

[Misunderestimator]

10. I loved her first books as well.... must have been her selling out as a

Republican that screwed with her mind... I just despise lesbian republicans.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

13. She's not a lesbian.

Whatever gave you that idea?
Duckie