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Terrific review & analysis!!
Chris: Thank you for your kind words of encouragement. So, two quick notes in response.
1.) I'm guessing you're a Dickens fan like me, given that you're currently reading Oliver Twist. I think there are many similarities between Dickens' style of impassioned writing and McMurtry's style.
2.) I opened the "next book" in my McMurtry series and the new edition of "Somebody's Darling" opens with an updated McMurtry preface to readers in which he essentially says just that: He often loses control of his own novels while writing. It's an odd preface because it almost dares readers not to read this next book. That honesty makes me smile and like McMurtry even more.
Just this morning, I once again emailed an offer to copy edit my local newspaper in exchange for free daily copies. The incorrect word used in caption on the front page drove me to do so.
God bless journalists.
Well, considering that the Lincoln newspaper still claims Willa Cather as having worked there (at least at one of the pre-cursor newspapers), it's a sad note to read, Sherry. That is, if you're referring to the Lincoln paper. I'm a lifelong journalist and have a bit of connect to Nebraska newspapering because a beloved member of my extended family was a key editor at the Omaha paper in the '60s and '70s. Other members of our extended family were from the Lincoln area and often talked to me about their papers, which they got by mail after they left Nebraska in the '70s. Thanks for your note. I agree entirely: Sad to see the best of newspaper editing has all but eroded, these days.
"I remain a huge fan of his work, even the lesson he struggled to learn about needing a good editor, which Brooks proved to be for the enduring benefit of all of us."--Good editors are a gift!
Agree. And thanks for taking the time to add this comment.
What a superb review, with so much great information about why this novel fails to work for some of us. I love McMurtry, but I hated Aurora enough to just bail.
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Chris: Thank you for your kind words of encouragement. So, two quick notes in response.1.) I'm guessing you're a Dickens fan like me, given that you're currently reading Oliver Twist. I think there are many similarities between Dickens' style of impassioned writing and McMurtry's style.
2.) I opened the "next book" in my McMurtry series and the new edition of "Somebody's Darling" opens with an updated McMurtry preface to readers in which he essentially says just that: He often loses control of his own novels while writing. It's an odd preface because it almost dares readers not to read this next book. That honesty makes me smile and like McMurtry even more.
Just this morning, I once again emailed an offer to copy edit my local newspaper in exchange for free daily copies. The incorrect word used in caption on the front page drove me to do so. God bless journalists.
Well, considering that the Lincoln newspaper still claims Willa Cather as having worked there (at least at one of the pre-cursor newspapers), it's a sad note to read, Sherry. That is, if you're referring to the Lincoln paper. I'm a lifelong journalist and have a bit of connect to Nebraska newspapering because a beloved member of my extended family was a key editor at the Omaha paper in the '60s and '70s. Other members of our extended family were from the Lincoln area and often talked to me about their papers, which they got by mail after they left Nebraska in the '70s. Thanks for your note. I agree entirely: Sad to see the best of newspaper editing has all but eroded, these days.
"I remain a huge fan of his work, even the lesson he struggled to learn about needing a good editor, which Brooks proved to be for the enduring benefit of all of us."--Good editors are a gift!
Agree. And thanks for taking the time to add this comment.
What a superb review, with so much great information about why this novel fails to work for some of us. I love McMurtry, but I hated Aurora enough to just bail.
