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[Vanity Title And No Content From Obituary] Pat Conroy, renowned author has died.
http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20160304/PC16/160309613

Posted on 03/05/2016 5:42:36 AM PST by Jonty30

Pat Conroy, author of best selling novels, Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, has died of cancer.

It is confirmed that he did get off the island, but it is unknown whether he took his little buddy with him.


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1 posted on 03/05/2016 5:42:36 AM PST by Jonty30
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To: Jonty30

OH! No! My first read of the morning and it has to be this? Terrible news...I’m always waiting for another book..

Who is the buddy?


2 posted on 03/05/2016 5:46:14 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Jonty30

I enjoyed both the books mentioned as well as “Lords of Discipline”.


3 posted on 03/05/2016 5:48:04 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Thank You Rush

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yfSLuEj99d0


4 posted on 03/05/2016 5:49:14 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: Jonty30

RIP


5 posted on 03/05/2016 5:51:41 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Jonty30
Wasn't Prince of Tides the one with the graphic homosexual rape scene and the guy getting mauled/eaten by the pet tiger?
6 posted on 03/05/2016 6:32:08 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Jonty30

Sorry - I don’t get the connection. Didn’t Pat Conroy live on an island off the coast of SC? I thought you were referring to his home there. Too subtle for me, I guess.


7 posted on 03/05/2016 6:33:24 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: Thank You Rush

The picture has him looking a lot like the Skipper.


8 posted on 03/05/2016 6:42:49 AM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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“”Wasn’t Prince of Tides the one with the graphic homosexual rape scene and the guy getting mauled/eaten by the pet tiger?””

The scene in the house with the escaped convicts - yes...I couldn’t place the tiger for a minute but then it all clicked... Fabulous movie and of course, fabulous book with a lot that wasn’t in the movie. The last Pat Conroy book I read and must be his last one was burying the past with his dad - again fabulous. No one could write like he did. I have always treasured his books and will treasure them all the more now.

EXCERPT from “The Death of Santini”

“”In this powerful and intimate memoir, the beloved bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and his father, the inspiration for The Great Santini, find some common ground at long last.

Pat Conroy’s father, Donald Patrick Conroy, was a towering figure in his son’s life. The Marine Corps fighter pilot was often brutal, cruel, and violent; as Pat says, “I hated my father long before I knew there was an English word for hate.””

“”As the oldest of seven children dragged from military base to military base across the South, Pat bore witness to the toll his father took on his siblings, and especially on his mother, Peg. She was his lifeline to a better world, the world of books and culture, and despite the serial confrontations with his father Pat managed to claw his way towards a life he hardly could have imagined as a child.””


9 posted on 03/05/2016 6:45:38 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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Interview....I recognize the interviewer but the name escapes me - Peter Jennings?

http://www.usatoday.com/videos/life/books/2016/03/05/81360030/


10 posted on 03/05/2016 6:51:09 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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Later


11 posted on 03/05/2016 6:54:25 AM PST by gaijin
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Read 2 of his books. Big Liberal. RIP.


12 posted on 03/05/2016 7:03:23 AM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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I believe you are thinking about the movie "Conrack", staring Jon Voight. The movie is based on Conroy's experience as a young teacher.

Conrack (1974)
13 posted on 03/05/2016 7:18:17 AM PST by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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Really enjoyed The Great Santini. Bull Meacham was a helluva character and more than a little based on Conroy's father. RIP.
14 posted on 03/05/2016 7:49:25 AM PST by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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Loved the movie. The scene with the cream of mushroom soup is a classic. I also greatly enjoyed Conroy’s (nonfiction/autobiographical) work on basketball ‘My Losing Season’.


15 posted on 03/05/2016 8:35:56 AM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: Jonty30

A very conflicted man who wrote with great elegance.

His Dad made a statement about how Pat needed to be a hero in his books.


16 posted on 03/05/2016 8:42:34 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Kid Shelleen

Don’t think I ever saw that but do remember the book it was taken from. It wasn’t that story I was thinking of. I ran across the name of the island this morning - strange name - Fillip or something similar - looked it up on Google Earth and was amazed at the hundreds if not thousands of islands there....and now I can’t find the name again!!! I remember he had moved to one of the islands and it was referenced in something this morning - the only way I would have known the name. The islands have Beaufort addresses I believe, so it’s possible he was still on one of the islands and not in Beaufort proper. It will nag at me all day so when I find it, I will be back - HA!


17 posted on 03/05/2016 8:47:16 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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To: SkyPilot
Liberal

But not without some regret.

My Heart's Content

18 posted on 03/05/2016 8:50:15 AM PST by EveningStar (It's a cult.)
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To: ameribbean expat

“The scene with the cream of mushroom soup is a classic””

And the scene in Prince of Tides when the father threw his plate of food across the room and the mother went out to the kitchen and had the kids help her dish up another plate for him - dog food! He complimented her on it and the kids had to keep straight faces....Priceless.


19 posted on 03/05/2016 8:50:18 AM PST by Thank You Rush
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http://www.skygod.com/quotes/greatsantini.html


20 posted on 03/05/2016 9:05:05 AM PST by paddles ("The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." Tacitus)
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