tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post516234613882883176..comments2024-03-28T14:05:25.134-07:00Comments on Sacnoth's Scriptorium: Books Exiting the SystemJohn D. Rateliffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-77056672236609299802014-07-01T19:01:52.738-07:002014-07-01T19:01:52.738-07:00Dear David (B)
Your point is well taken, except f...Dear David (B)<br /><br />Your point is well taken, except for the Harte descendent's plan to work he'd have had to prevent or co-opt the publication of THE JUMPING FROG: from that point on Twain clearly had the jump on Harte. By the time HUCK FINN was published almost twenty years later Harte had clearly fallen far behind.<br /><br />And you're right that HUCK FINN is presented as a sequel to TOM SAWYER. I suppose one author could write a follow-up to another author's book, but it's my impression that TOM SAWYER was the more famous in Twain's time. Maybe the author needed to absorb a little more of the actual history before writing his time-travel novel.<br /><br />--John R.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />John D. Rateliffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-68400877825708194372014-07-01T18:50:37.287-07:002014-07-01T18:50:37.287-07:00Dear David (L)
Thanks for the comments re. AMBERL...Dear David (L)<br /><br />Thanks for the comments re. AMBERLEAF FAIR. I've read four of Karr's books and only liked one (THE KING ARTHUR COMPANION), thought one was okay (IDYLLS OF THE QUEEN), and actively disliked the other two (LADY SUSAN, her terrible continuation of a piece of Jane Austen juvenalia, and FROSTFLOWER AND THORN, which is unpleasant and kinky). I'll hang on to AMBERLEAF FAIR for a while to at least give it a skim before it goes, but I think she's just not the author for me.<br /><br />--John R.<br />John D. Rateliffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12324926298336489295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-45348110062867647212014-06-21T08:52:51.833-07:002014-06-21T08:52:51.833-07:00I read "Never the Twain" and remember be...I read "Never the Twain" and remember being irritated by the scene where the protagonist forestalls Mark Twain from writing "Huck Finn" by copying out the text and having it published under his own pseudonym. (He picks "Ernest Hemingway," a name that would mean nothing to anyone at the time.)<br /><br />The problem is - I think this is set before "Tom Sawyer" as well - is that the book "Huck Finn" can't exist without "Tom Sawyer". It says it's a sequel on the first page.<br /><br />I pointed this out at the time, and was taken as saying that you can't read "Huck Finn" without reading "Tom Sawyer" first, but that's not what I said at all.David Bratmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08090662884600828582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-44299256987515752012014-06-20T22:51:52.306-07:002014-06-20T22:51:52.306-07:00that is, "Western European tradition" ra...that is, "Western European tradition" rather than the New Guinea social milieu of _Sex and Temperament_.<br />David Lenanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03924913099478464694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2239062544101975016.post-65074767658258218782014-06-20T22:50:09.349-07:002014-06-20T22:50:09.349-07:00I think _At Amberleaf Fair_ is a worthwhile read--...I think _At Amberleaf Fair_ is a worthwhile read--an interesting take on a less-violent society, the mystery being investigated doesn't define the real genre of the book, it's a sort of thought experiment, one that might have been inspired by Margaret Meade's take on the Arapesh, applied to a society a bit more in the Western European, and one that might serve as a model for us. I think it stands out as Karr's best book, you might want to read a few pages, just in case, before you pass it on. There are other short stories associated with the world and main character, though I'm not sure I've read more than one or two of them. Otherwise, I either haven't read the book or I either agree with you or can see where you're coming from. _Peter Pan_ is the same book as _Peter and Wendy_, right?<br />--David LenanderDavid Lenanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03924913099478464694noreply@blogger.com