Posted on 07/14/2015 1:32:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 07/14/2015 1:34:38 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
A second Harper Lee book is coming out and is likely to be a wild commercial success. But let's be honest
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Here we go again. Did Marlowe write for Shakespeare, or did Shakespeare steal from Marlowe? Who was Christopher Marlowe anyway?
I don’t think this is the same as Bill Ayers writing DREAMS FROM MY FATHER.
I always found TKAM sort of predictable, full of cartoonish characters, and frankly dull.
the reason it’s this all-time best seller is because it is assigned in various English classes/lit classes at high school, college and university level. The students HAVE to buy it. Every fall it comes back up on the best seller list when classes start again.
I found it just not very good. Not well written. Dull.
Henry Cabot Lodge.
The “second book” .. is really the first book.
“To Kill a Mockingbird” - was really the 2nd book.
Um. No. No-one is going to buy a $20 and spend hours reading it in the notion that they can determine if the prose matches a decades-old writing style. People will buy the book if and only if they expect to love it as literature.
Software can/will determine if it is the same writer in a few seconds. No need to read the drivel.
Kit Marlowe may have been a spy, but no way they could be the same writer. The style and concerns are completely different. Besides Marlowe’s peak was while Shakespeare was still developing and Marlowe died before Shakespear’s best work.
There is excellent software to determine authorship available now.
I would expect Capote’s works have all ready been compared to Lee’s.
Nah. It presents the same problem as the textual analysis of St. Paul: The Harper Lee who wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird” is the same person as the Harper Lee who wrote its sequel, but that person has changed much over the years. If any software recognizes it as the same person, she might as well have died fifty years ago.
This is nasty. The two had a common theme: the deep south. But beyond that they are very different writers. I feel for Lee who is having to go through this in her extreme old age. Who convinced this nice lady to do this? This wouldn’t have happened if her sister was still alive. I’ve visited Monroeville many times and she’s revered in that town.
Keep in mind that TKAM was also severely edited in it’s transition from
Watchman. So how much of the editors writing style got embedded?
Yup! Remember when that Clinton novel was published anonymously and a computer determined it was Joe Klein? He admitted to it, lol.
Editors DO NOT REWRITE. They guide and ask for rewrites, that’s all.
I get that.
But from what I’ve read the TKAM editor was much more ... Involved ... in production of the final product than was the norm.
Could a little drama queen like Capote have kept silent while someone else won awards to his ghostwriting? Not for a single day, much less decades.
Wow. A book about a rape with a truly frightening villain and a scary, housebound hero is dull? If it isn’t Texas Chainsaw massacre it’s boring?
I read it at 12 and never looked back. Didn’t understand what rape was, didn’t understand the famous tea party chapter but boy, did I know I was in the middle of a great read.
Sorry, I’m not buying it. Editors are busy people. They edit - like the very great Max Perkins. They are not writers otherwise they’d be writing.
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