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...Rowling pieces her books together meticulously, detail by detail. Meyer floods the page like a severed artery. She never uses a sentence when she can use a whole paragraph. Her books are big (500-plus pages) but not dense--they have a pillowy quality distinctly reminiscent of Internet fan fiction. (Which she'll readily grant: "I don't think I'm a writer; I think I'm a storyteller," Meyer says. "The words aren't always perfect...
...wouldn't want to live in Meyer's next book. Her fourth Twilight novel, Breaking Dawn, will be out in August--it's already No. 8 on Amazon.com--but on May 6 she will publish The Host (Little, Brown; 619 pages), a science-fiction novel being marketed to adults. It's set in the near future on an Earth that has been conquered by parasitic aliens who take over the bodies of humans, annihilating their hosts' personalities. One human host resists; she lives on as a voice in the head she shares with the alien. When host and parasite...
...there's a formula to Meyer's work, it holds true here: she rewrites stock horror plots as love stories, and in doing so, she makes them new again. She writes vampire novels without the biting and science fiction without the lasers. Instead, she slows down the action, tapping it for the pent-up emotional drama that's always been present in it but had been all but invisible until she came along. "That's what I like about science fiction," Meyer says. "It's the same thing I like about Shakespeare. You take people, put them in a situation...
...about portraying the part,” Irving adds. “It wasn’t really a race issue.” The original book, by Ben Mezrich ’91, was recently exposed by The Boston Globe as more creative than its non-fiction label would suggest—according to the article, large portions of the novel are embellished or completely false. But again, neither Irvine nor Kaplan put much stock in the media crtiques. “[Mezrich] got the essence of what we did very well,” Irvine says, though...
...cards being played gives the “count” of the decks, and the higher the count, the better the chance of winning in a game of blackjack. Using this basic strategy, and disguising himself with pseudonyms such as Vincent Vega (a character from Pulp Fiction), Irvine helped his team earn up to $500,000 in a single weekend. Taking the stage after Irvine, Kaplan gave the details of his blackjack experience. Talking strictly about numbers, he broke down his early career into statistics. His MIT blackjack team set out with $89,000 and doubled their money...