Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: RARA-AVIS re: Books in the theater

Mari Hall (found.dead.in.texas@airmail.net)
Tue, 07 Apr 1998 09:32:47 -0500 Roger Dowdy wrote:
>
> Anthony Smith wrote:
> >
> > I disagree about reading something that has a current movie attached to it.
> > Maybe it's just personal, but I think it would be a "Which is better/How
> > are they different" discussion then. I didn't like RumPunch all that much
> > anyway.
>
> I agree with Anthony but perhaps for different reasons. I simply have a
> personal bias against reading books that are currently in the theaters.
> In fact if a book has at anytime been made into a movie and, after
> several years transpiring, I find I'd like to read the book, I'll go out
> of my way to purchase an older copy that doesn't have the movie cover on
> it.
>
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And what a way to bilk the price of a paperback of "Mercury Rising". It
was SIMPLE SIMON when it came out several years ago. At least they had
fine print on the cover (of the movie tie-in) that it was "previously
published". Now, I read the movie ads (if you can when they don't print
them so small and black) and the pub date on the book before planking
down that hard earned money.

-- 
whose DOROTHYL nom is Kate Warne the ex-Pinkerton in
The Woman With the Rose Tattoo by Mari Hall
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