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This is going to sound so insane and odd coming from a book lover ... I know his works but I cannot help but visualize a Native American actor when I see his name. lol Great choice of read by the way ;-)
I could see how that would happen-He's a great actor, but I get annoyed when I try to find articles about British Graham Greene and pictures from dances with wolves of keeps coming up.
I bet it does get annoying. I've had similar problems when searching for something and not finding it, but finding everything opposite of what I want to find. Both are good in their own ways ... just thought it was funny I pictured one person while knowing who was meant lol ;-)
Nice to hear from a fellow Greene fan,I can't wait to reread the Honorary Consul; the dream-scene at the end gets me everytime.
It is an amazing work. Greene struggled tremendously writing it. When he read it some years later, he said he never had control of what he wrote until the final chapter. It's his own favorite work I think. He claims the book came from the "Cave of the unconscious." If you enjoyed that book, you might enjoy Lowery's, "Under the Volcano." He drew on his own life experience to write that novel. What a "novel" idea 🤣
I might of seen the first half hour of a movie based on that novel, Volcano, when I was a kid. I remember a depressed, drunken brit in a white suit stumbling around the day of the dead festival- I'll definitely check it out. That's super interesting that he struggled with Consul -I always imagine a disinterested genuis type, carefully writing his five pages every morning then drinking all and never giving his five pages a second thought. It's funny, I want to know more about him, but I hear he might have been a total bastard -and i'd almost rather see him as a hero-writer than a living, breathing, person.
I didn't even know there was a movie based on Volcano lol I will have to find that and check it out now. Sadly, I know what you mean about the content of one's character v. the image you want to see them as. Many of my heroes and heroines turned out to be nothing like I imagined them. This is what brought me to the conclusion that I wanted to be the person I set everyone else up to be in my mind ... the best that I can be ;-) It's hard when you want someone to be the kind of person that they never were. It's like reading a book that inspires you only to find out at the end of the book that it was all a lie. If people knew half the stuff they thought they knew about those that they have been looking up to or admired, they wouldn't get inspired anymore. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. lol
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This is going to sound so insane and odd coming from a book lover ... I know his works but I cannot help but visualize a Native American actor when I see his name. lol Great choice of read by the way ;-)
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I could see how that would happen-He's a great actor, but I get annoyed when I try to find articles about British Graham Greene and pictures from dances with wolves of keeps coming up.
I bet it does get annoying. I've had similar problems when searching for something and not finding it, but finding everything opposite of what I want to find. Both are good in their own ways ... just thought it was funny I pictured one person while knowing who was meant lol ;-)
Nice to hear from a fellow Greene fan,I can't wait to reread the Honorary Consul; the dream-scene at the end gets me everytime.
It is an amazing work. Greene struggled tremendously writing it. When he read it some years later, he said he never had control of what he wrote until the final chapter. It's his own favorite work I think. He claims the book came from the "Cave of the unconscious." If you enjoyed that book, you might enjoy Lowery's, "Under the Volcano." He drew on his own life experience to write that novel. What a "novel" idea 🤣
I might of seen the first half hour of a movie based on that novel, Volcano, when I was a kid. I remember a depressed, drunken brit in a white suit stumbling around the day of the dead festival- I'll definitely check it out. That's super interesting that he struggled with Consul -I always imagine a disinterested genuis type, carefully writing his five pages every morning then drinking all and never giving his five pages a second thought. It's funny, I want to know more about him, but I hear he might have been a total bastard -and i'd almost rather see him as a hero-writer than a living, breathing, person.
I didn't even know there was a movie based on Volcano lol I will have to find that and check it out now. Sadly, I know what you mean about the content of one's character v. the image you want to see them as. Many of my heroes and heroines turned out to be nothing like I imagined them. This is what brought me to the conclusion that I wanted to be the person I set everyone else up to be in my mind ... the best that I can be ;-) It's hard when you want someone to be the kind of person that they never were. It's like reading a book that inspires you only to find out at the end of the book that it was all a lie. If people knew half the stuff they thought they knew about those that they have been looking up to or admired, they wouldn't get inspired anymore. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. lol
