[bksvol-discuss] Re: A Memory of Light
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:13:37 -0500
No, nobody finished the Dickens book.
However, Rupert Holmes wrote a musical based on the unfinished work. It has
multiple endings. The audience gets to vote on who they think the villain is.
Lissi and I and a friend went to see it and were not overly impressed. I,
because I'm not much into musicals in any event, Lissi because, while she likes
musicals in general, she didn't care for most of the songs in this play
Too modern sounding for her she said.
Evan
----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Loran Bailey
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2013 2:49 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: A Memory of Light
I warn you, the series is really, really long. Also, some series books
work fine as stand alone novels. These do not. Each one just takes up where the
last one left off and continues the story. It is not really a series so much as
just one enormous novel that is broken into various volumes because it would
never fit in one book. By the way, speaking of authors who died in the middle
of writing something, did anyone ever finish The Mystery of Edwin Drood by
Charles Dickens? By now I would think that there would be a number of versions
since the author and the title are so famous, but I don't recall ever hearing
of any.
On 1/12/2013 12:55 PM, Dornetta wrote:
Hey Evan;
I remember reading a guy who died before he finished a very popular (this
was during a discussion with a friend of my husband whom I have a great deal of
respect for). Anyway he was talking about this series that the man couldn't
finish and about the guy who took over writing the series and how I should
"at-least try reading it, Netta" Anyway this friend has subsequently died and I
have wondered for many, many months who the man was that he was referring
about. I went into our local Books-a-Million store and asked one of the
employees about the author but she had no idea who I was talking about (I think
that day, it was high school working night because no one in the store was
helpful) Anyway, what I want to say is a GREAT BIG THANK YOU! Because I now
know the name of the series as well as the author and I just might read the
series in memory of good ol' Mr. Ed.
Netta
"Just because you are blind does not mean you lack vision"-Stevie Wonder
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