Michaels 10 Fanfic Reviews

Friday Night in Sin City - SIN CITY FAN FICTION

The main gist of this piece was to show the author's favourite character (Marv) as the author see's him. So he takes us through a rundown of a "typical" friday night at Marv's local bar/strip joint. Although there were a few spelling mistakes, I found that it was written very well. The author shows us that Marv is a instinctual character by using short sentences to describe his surroundings. With each sentence he focuses more intently on the description, creating a tableux feel in my imagination as slowly, the picture builds. This Style of writing is both compelling and helps us to quickly develop an idea about what sort of person Marv is. It also, being written in a narrative form, stays "true" to the movie by making us think like the character. A great start to a fanfiction, however, it could go on into the story more as i suspect marv would want to find out the reason for the womans blood on the moustache man.

Salisbury Tales - FALLOUT 3 FAN FICTION

The story portrayed in the fan fiction is one about a girl, whom due to the conditions she was conceived under, was born with a deformed leg. Her father starts a post-apocalypse inn for travelers in the D.C. wasteland to take shelter in. I enjoyed this story because of its view on a preconcieved game world. In the game you have to choose to either help or hinder the peoples of the wasteland, you never really have a "home" as you are constantly travelling. By makeing the story about an inn keeper they developed a different vantage point in the way they could write (by making the story about adventures she hears about rather then her own adventures).
The only downside I felt about it was that the characters the writer introduced were not developed enough.

My Life in the Brotherhood - FALLOUT 3 FANFICTION

This fanfiction is about an initiate in a military organisation 80 years after a nuclear war that desimated the world. I found the story interesting although the concepts in it were far from the actual concepts of the game. Aka the military organisation puts saving lives above all other duties, so the idea that as a training excercise they would sluaghter each other is preposterous. The writing style was interesting although there were many spelling mistakes as well as grammer mistakes. However as i was saying the first person perspective was a perfect way to write this as it is a personal account of a trumatic experience and therefore in first person it it conveys the account in a bias way. Overall its an adverage story in my oppinion just because it strays so far from the original game concepts.

Cold - FALLOUT 3 FANFICTION

This is the story of an unnamed hunter in the capital wasteland, he does what he needs to survive, that includes hunting humans as they are the most abundant source of food left. His only companion is a mutated dog which he found as a pup 10 years before the events in this story. The story structure is composed brilliantly as it "trickles" information about the character. This makes it a very enjoyable read as you begin thinking the character is a savage raider, but in actuallity he just wants to survive. However it did have a very "rushed" feeling to the writing as if the author didnt really plan what they were going to write as the sentances sometimes didn't really flow and a few had grammar mistakes. overall it is probally the best of the fallout fanfictions i have read as it sticks the the ideals of the game as well as going more indepth about the "mechanics" of surviving.

Dehumanization - FALLOUT 3 FANFICTION

Dehumanization is a fanfiction about a young boy whom eventually grows up to be a raider. However after reading it i felt a little ripped off, the story didn't really develop anything towards the raider aspect of the character. In saying that i did enjoy the way it was written and if it continued I know that i would have read more. The pace was a really good aspect of the way it was written, by making milestones in how far the character got to the door it enthralled you into the anticipation the character is feeling. There weren't really any spelling or grammar issues with also helped in making it easy to read. The ending left much to be desired though, as the structure dissipated and led to a dead end where i ending up just being dissapointed because until that point it was great.

If Only - A CLOCKWORK ORANGE FANFICTION

The author of this fanfiction has decided to tell the tale of how Alex (the main character in A Clockwork Orange) met his three Droogies; Pete, Dim and Georgie. It is written from the perspective of Georgie and hints as to reasons they droogies hold malice towards Alex in the original. The interesting thing about this piece of writing is that language-wise, it follows the orginal book perfectly. It does this by using the same "pace" in the sentences as well as the words that were created as slang specifically for the book. I really enjoyed reading "If Only" as it had no grammar or spelling mistakes, it seemed like it was extensively planned and the contain was a near-perfect style to that of the orginal book. I think it has the potential to be extended and become a very good piece of literature.

The Road Taken - THE ROAD FANFICTION

The Story here is the boy has gone with the "good guys" and what happens in the passing day. The good guys are a family of wanderers much like the boy and his father were. I think the author intended initially to write more as the first quarter of the story is recapping over what was pretty much explained at the end of the road (eg. describing the new characters, what the plan of action is, etc). I found it too repetative having read the road, the characters don't really do anything they havent done before and they dont really develop into any thing more then colourful sillouettes. Personally unless more is written i think that the story would have been better if it was unaltered. Overally I believe it is a good idea that just failed to really deliver anything a fanfiction should.

Don't Speak Against the Sun - THE ROAD FANFICTION

This is a fanfiction that is based soley on the apocalyptical world describe in the book the road. It is the memoirs of a Woman whom is slowly dying of the ash blight which has spread across the world. As a story peice i found it quite enjoyable if not a little confusing as to what was going on, from what I could figure out, the intervals of time were determined by the intervals of blood, which i suppose was ment to symbolise the lack of working time devices (Watches, clocks, etc). However i think it would have been far more effective if they just wrote it as days since the memoir was started. I like the authors style of writing though, it was blunt and to the point and i think with a little more planning it would be an awesome peice of writing. The ending was also rather genius, the abrupt mid-word cutoff could only have ment death was met. The author went through a lot of effort to convey the world as that which is imagined whislt reading the road, so overall this is one of the better pieces i have read.

A Moment in Time - THE ROAD FANFICTION

"A Moment in Time" is a fan fiction that relates the last day of a man. It is set in the world created by the author of the road and decribes the setting with details as are used in the book. The Story is good as it accounts what the man has learnt from surving as long as he did in the wasteland and has a good pace with a solid intro, middle and ending. How ever i did find that the writer should have stressed just how sick the man was. I liked the amount of discription that went into the mans activities and setting though. After reading it you realise that all along the man knew when he was going to die, and it was just his attempt to have the best day he could possibly give himself.

The Road: The Long Road Home - THE ROAD FANFICTION

This is a genius fanfiction. The writer puts off telling you that it is about the man and his son until around half way through the story. Using blunt conversation and vivid description he captivates and enthralls the reader into picking up pace as they read. However the Cherry on the cake is that In the very last line you realise that the author is just intentionally making a satire mockery of the novel. I really enjoyed it, half because of the ending and half in spite of it. The writer obviously was very good at capturing the writing style of the book and mixed it with the conversational style of the movie making it a combination of portrayals of the road. Funny and clever, the first of the good satire fanfictions i have read.