But I'm really enjoying this book! What is it? On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. He's got this great sense of humor, and his quirky musings on his childhood have really captured my attention (I'm only about 50 pages into it so far). I got it out of the library because Noumenon sent me a link to a couple pages from it on Amazon.com, in which King discussed dialogue, which is something I really focus on in my own writing.
It will be worth reading this book, for me, if only for this little section about watching mainstream movies in the 1950's and 1960's, found on page 45:
"They were boringly wholesome. They were predictable. During The Parent Trap, I kept hoping Hayley Mills would run into Vic Morrow from The Blackboard Jungle. That would have livened things up a little, by God. I felt that one look at Vic's switchblade knife and gimlet gaze would have put Hayley's piddling domestic problems in some kind of reasonable perspective."Love it! Altho I really like The Parent Trap, the idea of pitting the bubbly blonde twins up against that menacing hood Artie West is deliciously intriguing...
Hey, thanks! I tried to find them myself, but I'd forgotten what you said you searched for, and just looked for "dialogue" and that brought up about a zillion pages, which I tried to wade through until I ran out of time and had to go to work. So thanks for reminding me!
ReplyDeleteAlso...why were you searching for 'hauptmann'? Been reading other people's Combat! fanfic on the sly? ;-)
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ReplyDeleteHah! What a great quote. I didn't remember that. But with Brian Keith around, Artie might have a little trouble.
ReplyDeleteVery good book. The way he tells his life is quite fascinating.
True, Brian Keith can get pretty fierce. I'm thinking especially of him in Nevada Smith...
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