From: firstinitiallastname@texas.net
HooDoo U. wrote:
> In article , firstinitiallastname@texas.net
> says...
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>>And Simon and Schuster knows a bunch of McMurtry
>>fans will buy his and never read Bridger's.
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> Reason enough to publish "yet another" version.
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> Thanks for continuing the discourse on this subject.
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> 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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You know, some things are just mysteries. It does seem that several
works may appear with similar themes, and you can't always tell why.
Maybe it's just a complex combination things, or maybe it just happens,
and we notice when it happens. Full moon syndrome.
--
Gerald Clough
"Nothing has any value, unless you know you can give it up."
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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