The movie Unstoppable is about two (sexy) guys trying to save a train - or at least keep it from going off the tracks & killing bunches of people. While watching, I realized I wanted the train to crash. In my defense, I didn't know it was (loosely) based on a true story so I'm not sure I'd have wanted to see destruction if I'd known, but - there it is: The little boy that is in all of us came out in me at that moment and screamed for a big train wreck.

The movie is pulling the viewer in that direction. We are all racing toward that moment of destruction.

I thought about how that happens in reading. The author has brilliantly set up a plot point & as a reader, you can feel the genius of it & you're moving to the climax & you want to see that train wreck because the author has set it up so well & it's brilliant - but then, WAIT -

- something completely different happens & it fits even better - the resolution is perfect & it makes you cry & laugh because the author is quite brilliant & you are so pleased you bought this book & had this reading experience & life is certainly now a different thing before you picked up the book.

Know what I mean?

Megan Whalen Turner is this kind of writer for me. Do you have one?