He explained that real life doesnt happen in regular chapters. I also wanted to mention that books vs. films is an interesting question, though I usually come down on the side of books. 2018. Given the weeks topic, today when I woke up I felt I had neglected a writer whose works had more direct effect on me than most: Chuck Berry, songwriter extraordinaire and among the most influential guitarists who ever held a pick or an audience spellbound. She died on Jan. 22, 2018. I wondered what there was about The Last of the Mohicans that made it worthy of great American novel status. Ill do as you say which is to save all of my comments in a Word document and copy them over if need be. Muddy Waters, to whom Berry showed his demo record on a trip to Chicago from East St. Louis, heard a hit, and brought Berry to the attentions of his employers at Chess Records. Thanks, Kat Lib! Too late! I was, at thirteen, gratified by the appearance of the Beatles, who, in their own high regard for Berry, seemed to feel similarly, at least a bit. E.L. Doctorow (1931-2015) penned excellent novels such as Ragtime and Worlds Fair (the latter a fictionalized memoir) after years as a publishing-company editor who worked with writers such as James Baldwin, Ian Fleming, Norman Mailer, and Ayn Rand. I realize it would be time-consuming, but if you want to try reconstructing your comment, that would be great. Dave, do you find any parallels between her and the still living Bob Dylan? googletag.pubads().setTargeting("resource", "List_171107"); I do recall seeing the film of Mansfield Park and thinking it was an interesting take on Austen. You can see what my problem is with posting here now and it does have something to do with the way my WordPress.com account is set up, but not sure why. Im also a huge fan of Anne of Green Gables and various other L.M. if (sourcesToHideBuyFeatures[i] == source) The Gang That Couldnt Shoot Straight. Love this, both the novel and the film. return cookiePair[1]; . In some ways, Solitude is like The Brothers Karamazov absolutely brilliant in many sections, even as things drag a bit elsewhere. Ill say! (Of course, sci-fi was only one of the genres in which Bradbury excelled.) I did not. Derek Walcott - Saint Lucian poet and playwright who received the . Writers Write shares writing resources. } I hadnt read anything by Emecheta (1944-2017) until I saw an obituary about her Jan. 25 death. William Peter Blatty (1928-2017), The Exorcist. So it might be tricky for me to try to explain your problem to WordPress since Im not on your computer or device. 10/1/13: Tom Clancy, a celebrated author of crime fiction and military thrillers, perished in a hospital in Baltimore. For instance, I liked The Deerslayer a lot more. They might or might not agree to that. James (1920-2014) also wrote her first novel relatively late (42) and penned her last one when past 90! So sorry, Kat Lib Im not seeing it. Sort of the city vs. country narrative of the book. I love how the so-called bad guys used a LION to intimidate people. The topic of the month was Island which she fortunately spelt out for me, as I thought shed said Ireland. . } stylesheet.rel = "stylesheet"; Required fields are marked *. One of her many quotes and I paraphrase spoke to trying to bring someone a rainbow who has a cloud. setDisplayBids: function() {}, His gutsy, pre-novelist reporting reminds me that Stieg Larsson did almost the same thing before writing The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, etc. "In The Weight of Water there's a line," she said in an interview last year with WBUR radio, according to . A.src = t; The faults I found with this film were (1) I had to fast-forward through the scene that depicted very ugly sketches of life on a slave plantation, but more importantly (2) the character of Fanny Price was portrayed as a very spunky, 20th century sort of heroine, not anywhere near the character of the book. Loved your descriptive, informative comment! Yet I ultimately found the novel pretty compelling. Your favorite authors who died during the past five years either ones I named or others? Lena Horne died on May 9, 2010. Here are some sources, and let's discuss other ways to share relevant links and obituaries:https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/Obituary/index.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_in_2022Other Years:2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. Naps? If/when you do read Jane Austen again, Id heartily recommend the relatively short but substantial Persuasion my favorite from the author. David Bowie (1947-2016), Space Oddity. Which reminds me of what is possibly apocrypha, yet perfect the supposed deathbed utterance of Oscar Wilde: The wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. authors who died in the last 10 years. July 20, 1999 Feb. 19, 2020. Weve already planned his party, but Im sure it will go off-script just like my moms did. 3. Richard Matheson (1926-2013), I Am Legend. The box for submitting comments is below already-posted comments, but your new comment will appear at the top of the comments area unless youre replying to someone. [CDATA[ One or the other of us has to go. All great men are dying and I dont feel so well myself.. I remember when The Huffington Post would never post some comments, so I got in the habit of copying each comment of mine into a Word file before I hit send sort of the opposite of the Word-file-first approach I mentioned in my previous comment. As I recall, Fanny broke the fourth wall and addressed the audience directly which, in a sense, is what all first person narrators do. Darn! However, occasionally films are good because they use the original work as inspiration or a jumping off point for something entirely different and unique. //]]> Thank you! A shame she didnt write more books starring Cordelia Gray; do you have any idea why? 5. Who are some famous people that have died in the past 10 years? Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014) was of course best known for his epic masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude, which took eighteen months to write between 1965 and 1967 as his family slid into major debt because of that effort. I also considered that, as an adventure yarn, it was inferior to the pulpy tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs. She was an English Novelist died in 1817 in Winchester, United Kingdom. Stop trying to confuse things with a straw man. "ObfuscatedMarketplaceId": "A1PQBFHBHS6YH1" I agree that usually novels can go much more more in depth and provide more information and insight into characters minds and hearts than movies can. Oh did you hear Rex likes to take frequent naps ? googletag.pubads().setTargeting("surface", "mw"); Nat Hentoff (1925-2017), The Nat Hentoff Reader. This is not to say that Austen didnt have a sense of humor, because she certainly did, nor that certain characters werent playful or witty, which many were. Goodhearted, deferring, dutiful, and so on, but not Mary Tyler Moore as Mary Richards! One of the tracks? I was in your city last weekend. } Interesting to see the perspectives of writers who were born to wealth Edith Wharton is another example of an author who tweaked the upper class from a place of inside knowledge. He also wrote Foucaults Pendulum, which has impressive intellectual heft but contains some sections that work better than a sleeping pill for getting a bit of shut-eye. I keep forgetting about those two names! on librarything, ive a collection I call read-of-the-just-dead. And Im still not done with all the work! (function() { I guess the born-somewhat-later Pete Hamill is still around, but writing books more than columns these days, I believe. ! What a weird, funny, Wilde-like (possible) last line, jhNY! James She wrote the dystopian novel, Children of Men. We've said goodbye to some iconic faces over the past decade. Douthat is indeed living in some alternate reality. I didnt know that, in addition to not driving, Ray Bradbury also didnt fly. I have only read Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park although both were well over 20 years ago. Its like the Three Stooges meet the mob. 1966 William Frawley, American vaudeville, silent and sound screen actor (I Love Lucy - "Fred"; My Three Sons - "Bub"; Miracle on 34th Street), dies of a heart attack at 79; 1967 Georges Lonque, Belgian composer, dies at 66; 1969 Fred Alexander, American tennis player (Australasian C'ship 1908, 5-time US Indoor winner), dies at 88; 1973 Vera Panova, Russian author and journalist (Sputniki . Not familiar with Jenny Diski will go to Wikipedia now! Its like the Three Stooges meet the mob. The year 2016 was a hard year for celebrity deaths, but the world also lost a number of incredible authors who died over the past year. . In a way, dementia makes the actual grieving over death a bit less intense when it comes the sufferer has been mourned by those closest, and by his most devoted readers, in Marquezs case, for some time. bobess48, while Im having trouble coming up with a film done about a Jane Austen book that I didnt love, Ive seen multiple mini-stories about each one of her six novels that Ive loved, mostly because they were more true to the novel. Nelle Harper Lee I once had an office mate who was from Monroeville. (Stopped doing that with this blog when I started it in 2014.). Even now, I am getting Clarence ready to head over to LensCrafters in Rockefeller Center for a new pair of eyeglasses. for(var i=0; i