Interview With Sarah Waters

"Bad juju? Is that a voodoo-thing?"

i'm such a huge fan. fingersmith is one of the finest book ever written in my opinion. thank you sarah for creating amazing fiction, with characters that just happened to be gay. all the books are brilliant & refreshing to read.

thanks malinda for this vlog. sarah was full of humility & down-to-earthness in this interview, it makes me adore her more, as if her intelligence & genius writing isn't enough to make me swoon. plus i find her totally HOT in this vid. haha... ok i'm trying to be semi-professional in this post, but what can i do? i'm such a fangirl at heart. sarah waters rocks!!! LOL

p/s: but really, no lesbian character? what the hell? :P 

Affinity The Film Was Sorry To Say............Pants

Iv'e Read All Sarah Waters Books And Affinity Was the Most Compelling Thing Ive ever read

The Adaptions Like The Books Iv'e Watched Tipping The Velvet & Fingersmith They Were Pretty True

Affinity On The Other hand Was Nowhere As Good As The Book.

 

PROUD TO BE BRITISH...

 

I might be a bad lesbian for saying this, but I havn't read a single book by Sarah Waters. Although I have seen Fingersmith and Tipping the Velvet, that's gotta count for something, right? Right?! :)

 

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I heart Sarah Waters. Thanks so much for this interview.

LOL @ Malinda declaring "I love TV". 

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all of her books...the last one, nightwatch, was really different from her "usual stuff", not a pageturner for me, but i still liked it...sorta...it was very different^^

but the movie "affinity" was - nicely spoken - not as good as fingersmith (still my favourite in book and film) and ttv (liked the book, tolerate the movie;))

well, i wouldnt watch it again, so much for sure, i'm afraid

I read all her books and saw all the adaptations, except Affinty, which was shot here in Romania, I'll probably recognise some interiors.

Tipping the Velvet was such a fun novel and mini-series. Fingersmith I enjoyed even more, though I didn't like the film that much, excellent production values, great actors, of course, but... a bit too much on the commercial side IMO, and it changed some things in the novel that worked just fine for me.

The Night Watch was so different, more classically modern, of course; strangely I found myself more involved in the discreet relationship between  the male characters, at some point.  Though Kay was dashing, my hero. :-) 

 

Sarah Waters :) Great interview - I can't wait for the Affinity adaptation to make it's way over here, the book had me guessing right up until the end. And a Night Watch one in production - I think that one will make a great movie too.

I for one am not bothered about the next book not involving any lesbian storyline. I love her writing style and personally think it would be a little narrow minded if anyone were to rule out reading the book altogether just because of that.

And the road stretched on like an angry woman...

I actually got into Sarah Waters' books not because of the lesbian element but because of the neo-Gothic, Victorian facets of the books. Sarah Waters' attention to detail is impeccable, and somehow, that doesn't impede her ability to write compelling narratives. Tipping the Velvet was a joyous romp of a book (even if I didn't agree with the ending), and Fingersmith was ingenious in its constant identity switches. And even outside the Victorian element, as in Night Watch, Sarah Waters still employs her seemingly avid research skills and flair for creative narrative twists (seriously, time travel AND different character viewpoints?) to create a wonderful book. It doesn't surprise me that Night Watch will be made into a movie, though I think a longer miniseries, one that would allow for brooding views of war-torn London, would serve it much better than a 90-minute one-shot (in fact, I think a feature film with Cate Blanchett as Kay and Kate Winslet as Helen would be best, but what do I know?).

Affinity, however, is, in my opinion, the height of Sarah Waters' talents. I read it a few months ago for the first time and was absolutely floored by how terrifying it is. A lot of reviews I had read claimed that you can see the ending coming, but I honestly could not, and when it did come, it felt like someone had punched me in the gut; it's just so much the antithesis of a happy ending, and in such a twisted way, that by it alone I loved Affinity. But even beyond that, the disturbing codependency that forms between Margaret and Selina, interspliced with diary entries that recount Victorian seances and underscore the increasingly blurred line between this life and the next, and the descriptions of life in a women's prison in late-1800s London kept me reading well into the night. It's just so incredibly, deliciously twisted.

And with that...I'm off to watch the Affinity movie.

"Out of the box is where I live." -Starbuck

the same way I enjoyed Tipping the Velvet and Fingersmith.  The ending was very depressing and I didn't care for the way the main character was taken advantage of.  The way the character ended things reminded me of older novels about lesbians where they had to commit suicide to show that being a lesbian wasn't a good thing.  Personally, I don't agree that it's now ok to kill off the lesbians again because we've somehow come full circle in lesbian entertainment.  I've always preferred a happy ending.

:O no lesbian characters in the new book?!?! oh well, i know i'll love it anyhow.

p.s. did Malinda have somewhere else to be? :P she kept checking her watch.

No lesbian characters????? nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Ah Malinda, you're so lucky, and Sarah is so cute! And fun, and lighthearted, and down-to-earth! :) Thanks for the interview, Malinda. I would have thrown away my watch, though--this is Sarah Waters after all--who cares about other appointments? Lol!

I think it's a good thing that her next novel will not have lesbian characters in it. She's such a talented writer that there's a good chance the novel will be brilliant with or without lesbians. There's no reason why she should confine herself to lesbian characters. I think it's a brilliant move on her part career-wise.

Sarah, you're my hero, and I love you. Mmmwah! :)

You got to interview...Say What!. I can deal least it was you Malinda. You have good taste in authors and books.

OMG, so many good news :) I can't wait to see Affinity.

And Night Watch will be made into a 90 minutes film. Uh oh, I hope it will be good. It's my fave Sarah Waters book so far and I wouldn't think it's possible to squeeze it into 90 minutes. Well, we'll see.

I'm really looking forward to the new book, although there won't be any lesbians ;) Post-war gothic sounds definitely good.

Thank you for a wonderfull interview.

I think I love you both.