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Taking On the Liblits! Wolfe and Crichton Strike!
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Posted on 01/02/2005 5:44:49 AM PST by LS
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01/02/2005 5:44:50 AM PST
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LS
To: LS
I wonder if this Crichton book will be made into a major motion picture? I guess it's not that kind of book to begin with but a movie dealing with the books premise would be nice.
To: LS
Wolfe also did a half hour or longer interview on Fox News this weekend. I think it was New Years Eve. Interesting guy.
P.s. Im reading State of Fear also and its great.
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posted on
01/02/2005 5:49:38 AM PST
by
Dave S
To: LS
Great post, and commentary on two favorite authors! Right now I'm reading "Air Frame" by Crichton. He's fun reading and now there's another Crichton book to enjoy. Thanks for the recommendation.
Wolfe is sharp edged, the way an entertaining writer should be. God bless his conservative soul. :)
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posted on
01/02/2005 5:53:35 AM PST
by
bd476
To: LS
I got Wolfe's latest for Christmas from my sister-in-law. Lookinf forward to reading it.
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posted on
01/02/2005 5:54:58 AM PST
by
bubman
To: LS
Thanks for the heads up on these tow books; they sound very interesting and deep.
I read Wolfe's 'A Man in Full' and it was fantastic as well as entertaining. He deserved every penny he made off that one, certainly. Through the art of telling an interesting story he presented four contrasting characterizations (stereotypes if you will) of manhood that are quite illustrative and enlightening. Suggestion though if you haven't yet read it, consider 'Zeus' to be code for 'Christ' and I think you will get the full message.
We Christians today do have to go back to using code to represent our bleifs, and Wolfe is the first in a long time I think to have done this to avoid persecution.
Maybe we can also use the Sun to represent the Son, and the Joshua Tree to represent the Cross, but Wolfe has set an example, I think. of how to reference Christianity subtley and not register on the leftist radar..
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posted on
01/02/2005 5:58:59 AM PST
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JFK_Lib
To: JFK_Lib
Saw that show on fox,, a whole hour, a fascinating guy.
Really thought his "Bon Fires of the Vanities" said it all for that period.
W. E. B. Griffin, my favorite, has a new one out, "By Order of the President"
It meets the "Entertainment" test.
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posted on
01/02/2005 6:37:00 AM PST
by
late bloomer
( Neglegere homo pone aulaeum)
To: LS
I enjoyed "I Am Charlotte Simmons" quite a bit. For anyone who thinks that colleges aren't like this, allow me to assure you that they are. Mine wasn't quite as bad as the book depicted, but most of the description of rampant sex, alcohol, drugs, and childish behavior rang very true. I thought Wolfe explored the issues of a conservative student in a den of liberalism quite well.
To: LS
Tom Wolfe and Michael Crichton are two examples of British Tory Chris Patten's saying that "the facts of life are conservative." They are not conservatives who became writers, but writers whose respect for facts has led them to express conservative views.
A key element of Wolfe's credo as a writer is to make his fiction 'true' by grounding it on observed fact, as if he were a reporter describing what is happening rather than a literary figure spinning a tale. Indeed, Wolfe began as a reporter and was one of the pioneers of the "new journalism" that energized reporting in the 1960's through colorful detail and dramatic stories.
Similarly, Crichton's fiction relies on carefully researched scientific facts. Crichton, who trained as a doctor at Harvard Med, has sometimes anticipated scientific developments that were contrary to expert opinion.
To: Dave S
Try Wolfe's
From Bauhuas to Our House. An abosultue scream, partucularly if you have ever work on "Nan der Roh's Row."
Too funny.
To: CasearianDaoist
To: mainepatsfan
Perhaps someone could suggest it to Mel Gibson.
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01/02/2005 6:58:22 AM PST
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I_dmc
To: LS
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01/02/2005 7:07:09 AM PST
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Mamzelle
To: LS
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posted on
01/02/2005 7:11:22 AM PST
by
hershey
To: CasearianDaoist
Bauhaus was very funny. Guy's got a rapier for a pen, that's for sure. Dissects pretentiousness with glee.
To: mainepatsfan
I wonder if this Crichton book will be made into a major motion picture? My prediction: Hollywood will turn Crichton down, but Mel Gibson will option it and make loads of money.
To: CasearianDaoist
Try Wolfe's From Bauhuas to Our House. An abosultue scream, partucularly if you have ever work on "Nan der Roh's Row." There's another place, perhaps in the same book, where Wolfe refers to "Mies van der Rohe on row" of plastic airport chairs.
To: mainepatsfan
It most certainly "is that kind of book." These days Crichton's books seem to be written like screenplays for the inevitable action movie, which irks me.
Having said that, the book IS important for its relentless skewering of global warming.
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posted on
01/02/2005 7:50:15 AM PST
by
Pete98
(After his defeat by the Son of God, Satan changed his name to Allah and started over.)
To: BlazingArizona
You'd think at some point the Hollywood producers would choose making money over being politically correct.
To: BlazingArizona
I liked the bit about architects that run academic departments and design building for campuses. There was some sort of presentation (at Harvard, I seem to recall) where the acrhitect was going on about his building. He said something to the effect that the building "was having a conversation with the landscape. Wolfe says something like "whereupon a Harvard logic professor was heard to ask 'just what did the landscape have to say.' "
Too funny.
I like the opening chapter where he describes the feeling corporate chieftains had when they actually occupied these building that no one liked and that they had paid millions for. He says "and it made their heads hurt!"
Gotta love it.
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