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To: gondramB
Thanks for the tip on the Remo Williams novels!

I've never read one,but now look forward to picking one up!

7 posted on 10/24/2005 8:13:54 PM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: smoothsailing

They're kind of hard to come by in the brick-and-mortars, so you might want to try Amazon. Even there, they're a little pricey. You probably should start in order, but book 3 is generally considered the point where the books hit their stride. If you've seen the movie and loved the interplay between Remo and Chiun, that's the book where it came into focus.


13 posted on 10/24/2005 8:25:50 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: smoothsailing
"Thanks for the tip on the Remo Williams novels! I've never read one,but now look forward to picking one up!" Sadly they wrecked the series when they made it into a left leaning movie. The National Review story was so sad when they realized what had been done to the series. Like congress, there is nothing Hollywood can't screw up when they try.
Often the villain in a given Destroyer novel is guided by a left-wing agenda. Back in the 1970s, the Wounded Knee protesters were mercilessly mocked; the conservative dream of a U.N. out of the U.S. was finally, blessedly (albeit fictionally), realized; and Carter CIA head Stansfield Turner was rightly called to task for making a hash of Central Intelligence. More recently, the Clintons and their cronies came under repeated fire. The humor in the series is wickedly pointed and decidedly un-P.C. Environmentalists, Hollywood celebrities, and journalists in particular have been targets of satire in The Destroyer for years.

So how does a highly successful 34-year-old book series that was once firmly grounded in patriotic and good old-fashioned Right-leaning American values end up listing Left-ward and, at least as a partial consequence, now find itself on the verge of cancellation?

http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/mullaney200510180824.asp
14 posted on 10/24/2005 8:26:03 PM PDT by gondramB
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