Author Topic: "Brokeback Mountain--The Complete Novel" 1943-2006  (Read 34363 times)

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Re: "Brokeback Mountain--The Complete Novel" 1943-2006
« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2015, 10:01:29 am »
162 Chapters??? YIKES!!!
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Re: "Brokeback Mountain--The Complete Novel" 1943-2006
« Reply #11 on: July 31, 2015, 10:48:28 am »
All of a sudden it doesn't seem very appealing any more to try and read it.

I might give it a chance though, just for the hell of it.

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Re: "Brokeback Mountain--The Complete Novel" 1943-2006
« Reply #12 on: July 31, 2015, 11:28:42 am »
All of a sudden it doesn't seem very appealing any more to try and read it.

I might give it a chance though, just for the hell of it.

I read about 17 chapters last night (each chapter is relatively short) and I think I've seen enough.

One of the things that bothered me is that he suggests Enniss' father had absolutely nothing to do with Earl's death, which is clearly NOT canon.

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Re: "Brokeback Mountain--The Complete Novel" 1943-2006
« Reply #13 on: July 31, 2015, 11:35:01 am »
Same goes for Ennis being accused of Jack's death.

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Re: "Brokeback Mountain--The Complete Novel" 1943-2006
« Reply #14 on: July 31, 2015, 11:35:09 am »
Also, Earl's last name is "Lamb".  Are you kidding?

And Rich's last name is "Sapho".  Hunh?

And LD Newsome, Sr shows up in Sage as a con man.  C'mon!

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Re: "Brokeback Mountain--The Complete Novel" 1943-2006
« Reply #15 on: July 31, 2015, 11:35:53 am »
Same goes for Ennis being accused of Jack's death.

Well, that could have happened after the story/film canon.  But, yeah.

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Re: "Brokeback Mountain--The Complete Novel" 1943-2006
« Reply #16 on: July 31, 2015, 11:59:56 am »
Also, Earl's last name is "Lamb".  Are you kidding?

And Rich's last name is "Sapho".  Hunh?

And LD Newsome, Sr shows up in Sage as a con man.  C'mon!

Good grief! Vern can't spell, but he's heard of Sapho? Well, I suppose it's possible.
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Re: "Brokeback Mountain--The Complete Novel" 1943-2006
« Reply #17 on: July 31, 2015, 02:44:36 pm »
lmao!


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Re: "Brokeback Mountain--The Complete Novel" 1943-2006
« Reply #18 on: July 31, 2015, 06:29:41 pm »
I suspected it might be a loser when I saw Ledger Park, Hathaway Farm, etc, on the map.  Lack of imagination and originality.

Seeing the last names of Earl and Rich confirmed it - silly.
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Re: "Brokeback Mountain--The Complete Novel" 1943-2006
« Reply #19 on: August 01, 2015, 01:52:38 pm »
If I were to get it, it would mainly be for my collection of Brokeback stuff, but I wouldn't read it.


Tell him when l come up to him and ask to play the record, l'm gonna say: ''Voulez-vous jouer ce disque?''
'Voulez-vous, will you kiss my dick?'
Will you play my record? One-track mind!