From: sculpty@dontemailme.com   
      
   In article , firstinitiallastname@texas.net   
   says...   
      
   >And Simon and Schuster knows a bunch of McMurtry   
   >fans will buy his and never read Bridger's.   
      
   Reason enough to publish "yet another" version.   
      
   Thanks for continuing the discourse on this subject.   
      
   I've begun reading the McMurtry book, and it is   
   a different point of view - thank goodness - and   
   I will continue with it. It's also been long   
   enough since I read the Bridger version that I've   
   forgotten stuff - which being old does to one!   
      
   On the fictional comments you made, I know that   
   current events drive authors to write fictional   
   accounts. But there is also something else at work   
   that is less understandable - to me. I'm an artist,   
   so books about art and artists catch my attention.   
   And in the past five or so years there has been a   
   proliferation of novels set in olden times. As   
   one example of a "best seller" that was a leader   
   in the genre, GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING, by   
   Tracy Chevalier - about the artist Vermeer and his   
   model. What prompted so many authors to suddenly   
   begin writing about "dead" art and artists? - is what puzzles   
   me. Of course, the one that's been on the "best   
   seller" list the longest - several years going now -   
   has been THE DAVINCI CODE.   
      
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