Politics, reading, writing, travel, moving, TV, movies, molecular cuisine, slow food, wine, foul-smelling cheeses, roller coasters, technology (I want a Google chip in my head.)
Müzik
Ramones, Rancid and its various solo components, Green Day, Iron Maiden, B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Against Me, Black Keys, Offspring, Blondie, J.S. Bach, Ike and Tina, Dance Hall Crashers, Beach Boys, Eminem.
I don't have sophisticated musical tastes. Two guitars, a bass, drums and play them all as loud and fast as you can.
Filmler
Airplane! 2001: A Space Odyssey, Duck Soup, Sin City, The Incredibles, A Clockwork Orange, Borat, Casablanca, Casino Royale (the new one,) The Big Sleep, Iron Man, Die Hard, Road Warrior, Alien and Aliens, Animal Crackers, Godfather 2.
Televizyon
Scrubs, How I Met Your Mother, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Sopranos, Lost, Grey's Anatomy (I'm not proud of it,) House, Jon Stewart, Letterman, Olbermann, The Simpsons, Vegas (not proud of that, either.) Oh, I almost forgot, Battlestar Galactica.
Kitaplar
Oy, this is the hard part. LOTR, the book that made me a writer. Anything by Patrick O'Brien. Anything by Bill Bryson. Ditto Dave Barry. Raymond Chandler. Early Robert Parker. Dan Simmons' sf works. Stephen King of course. "Home of the Brave" by Katherine Applegate. But mostly I read history.
Kahramanları
My lovely HarperCollins editors, Elise H. and Michael S. (You were expecting Mandela and Ghandi? Like I'm going to miss a chance to suck up?) And my agent/lawyer Steve S.
Hakkımda: "This intense, marvelously plotted, paced and characterized story will immediately garner comparisons to Lord of the Flies, or even the long-playing world shifts of Stephen King . . ."
-- Booklist (Starred Review)
Mostly I write. Type type type. With two fingers. I sit on my porch drinking coffee and smoking a cigar and type type type. Sometimes I go to a coffee shop and type type type. Occasionally when I get really excited about what I'm writing I can engage a third finger.
Hmmm. That's boring, isn't it? So. Okay. I'm sitting on my porch type type typing when a car pulls onto my street. I don't recognize the car and the driver is in shadow, but something about the tilt of his head, his silhouette . . . I'm over the railing, spilling coffee and MacBook before he can squeeze the trigger. I hit the dirt as the bullet hits the railing. But that was my one trick used up. Now I'm flat on my back with no cover but a shrub and he has plenty of bullets, a clear sightline and nothing but time.
I've published 150 kid books under 11 different names. These include (with my lovely wife, K.A. Applegate,) the ANIMORPHS series, EVERWORLD, BOYFRIENDS/GIRLFRIENDS, and even, early on, back in the so-poor-we'd-write-anything days, SWEET VALLEY TWINS. My career runs from Jessica Wakefield's first period, to crazy fights between Bengal tigers and razor-covered aliens.
I retired from writing for a couple years, did some other things, including producing documentaries. Now I'm back writing. (insert shameless plug here) I have a six book series called GONE, the first book of which just came out.
Kimle tanışmak isterim: Readers. Fans -- always assuming there are some. Other kidlit writers. Book people. Movie people -- writers and producers. TV people. Chefs. Political junkies. Reporters. Just generally interesting people.
First off, I'm really enjoying the Gone novels...but what is with the annual intervals? People are going to lose interest if they have to wait so long :(
dang,,, i havent gotten the book but on harperteen i read some of gone nd hunger i swear id liek die if i didnt get those 2 books i just found out bout the series but o well lol can wait to get the books wen will 3rd book come out?? is there one?? if u have time comment me bck wit the answers fo the questions!:D)
hi michael! :) i just wanted to say i think you are incredible! gone helped me survive my uncles cottage in poland! haha! woulda died of boredom! your book honestly made me cry, laugh, and scream in surprise! idk if a book has ever had such an effect on me, and i read a lootttttttt (well, maybe little women, but cmon.) i hope your enjoying your summer, and are hopefully working on the next installment in the series, which i wait every day ever so patiently for haha! comment me sometime if you have time! itd be great to talk to u! :)
Thakns for accepting my add. I love Gone, it's pretty amazing. I cna't wait until I have the money to buy Hunger and can't wait for the other books! -Ariana Storm Blesi
oh my gosh. you are like at the top of my favorite author list after only reading like the first chapter of hunger. i accidently read the 2nd one before the first one and even though i was only the tiniest bit confused i couldnt concentrate on that because i was eading one of the best books in the 21st century. i got through with hunger in a day it was just that fantastic. i got gone shortly after and finished it today. im a big book person and your books are just the right length. i also have to admire the ending to each book in the gone series they're total cliff hangers but it comforts me that there will be at least another sequel.
please write lies super fast and super awesome! (i heard thats what its called) and please like update on EVERYTHING! oh and thanks for being wonderfully awesome.
Thanks for the add! I picked up "Hunger" last week, completely unaware that it was part of a series until after I started it. So I ran back to B&N and picked up "Gone." I loved them both and can't wait for the next one. I'm definately not a teen, but highly enjoy sci-fi/fantasy teen books.
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hey, thank you for adding me :) you are an amazing author.. i read GONE and i finished HUNGER a week ago.. i can't wait for the rest of the series.. its pure genius :)
I picked up Gone at the store the other day and I wasn't expecting much, but it looked interesting. I just finished it, and I loved it. Then when I searched 'thefayz.com' I got your myspace and noticed there's going to be six books in the whole series? Oh man. You're going to make us wait that long to see how it all turns out?
Haha, anyway. I loved the book and I can't wait to read Hunger.
