Eeeeeeeeeee...!

[athenaltena]

I have a shiny. And I can't stop clutching it.

The talk he gave was awesome, and he's funny as hell and really interesting. I think the biggest laugh was when he talked about how he had found out that Martin Scorsese was directing Shutter Island and it got leaked a little while later, and he got an email from an author friend with the subject line "Scorsese" and the text of the email was "Fuck You."

I got to ask a question about the moment he seems to have in every one of his books that's the major "Oh shit!" that completely takes you by surprise, and his response was that while some authors can get a lot out of really subtle moments he has to do the equivalent of drop an atomic bomb, and he brought up Shakespeare and the moment at the end of Othello when Othello realizes what he just did. When I was getting the autograph he also thanked me for asking that question.

So if you excuse me I'm gonna be in a puddle of fangirly goo for the next few hours.