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Book Club: Discuss/find out about a Classic Tale Set in Wyoming: The Virginian
Front-Ranger:
Description of Em'ly:
--- Quote ---"Feathers on her breast there were none. These had been entirely worn off by her habit of sitting upon potatoes and other rough abnormal objects. And this lent to her appearance an air of being altogether decollete, singularly at variance with her otherwise prudish ensemble."
--- End quote ---
Em'ly reminds me a little of Alma, and in some ways serves the same purpose in the story.
Kd5000:
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So is Front-Ranger the facilitator... Do you have a list of future books to read. I might be late in joining this book group as I'm in the middle of several books right now. The Middle Sea ( a history of the Mediterranean), Capote's Christmas stories,
I've been in two bookgroups, never one on- line. The first group just read gay man's fiction. They had books six months in advance picked out. I got tired of reading the same genre. Plus the ones I liked such as THE BLACKWATER LIGHTSHIP, they thought were so low-brow.
The other bookgroup was more mainstream. I suggested THE DA VINCI CODE when it first came out. Never forget the lady who said "I thought books like this went out with Chariots of the Gods." My next selection was SOLARIS. Controversial selection as I thought the astronaut got a second chance to redeem himself for walking out on his unstable wife. Other readers thought he needed to get over it. One person said it read like Frankenstein. I invited a few ppl over to watch the 1972 Russian film version at my residence. The person who compared the book to Frankenstein wasn't invited. ;D
Front-Ranger:
Yes, I guess U would call me the facilitator, Karl! Altho I haven't been involved in a book club before so have no idea how to proceed. We are talking about next books to discuss over here:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=1059.msg130991#msg130991
Please give us your thoughts! I am especially interested in "buddy" stories, coming-of-age stories, and novels or short stories that have been made into movies.
There is another thread here where we are talking about comparing Brokeback Mountain to other movies. There has been a little about comparison to Hitchcock's work, and I have also compared it to...Solaris! I just watched the Russian version and rewatched the new version with George Clooney a couple of weeks ago.
Front-Ranger:
More pics of The Virginian. Here is Bill Pullman in the TNT version of last year:
Frankly, he just doesn't ring my bells. He would make a nice dad, but not the Virginian.
Now here is Gary Cooper as TV. He rings my bells, a little anyway:
Here's another photo of someone I imagine would make a nice Virginian, if I can't have Jake:
Stay tuned, I have more!!
Front-Ranger:
Another shot of Gary Cooper as the Virginian:
And of my mystery man (if you don't know who this is, you've been living under a rock for 20 years!):
And here's another candidate, what do you think?
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