Jim,
Not to deliberately advertise another discussion group here
but Trevanian / Whitaker has been a hobby of mine for awhile
and I occasionally collect / collate information as I find
it.
You might some interesting bits here:
http://groups.google.com/group/Trevanian
If you have any anecdotes from your friend that Whitaker
taught at UT I would be intereswted in hearing them.
I highly recommend his books, if you have never read any then
reading them in the order published works pretty well, at
least read the two Sanction novels and Shibumi.
Dennis
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Jim Beaver"
<jumblejim@p...> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Thanks for posting this, Jim (and
congratulations on your active
> > status in MWA).
> >
> > I read "Shibumi" when I was 15 or 16. I was
blown away by it. I
> > tried to read "The Main" as a follow-up, but it
didn't hold my
> > teen-aged attention. Come to think of it, the
hero's girlfriend
in
> > "Shibumi" might have been a large part of what
kept me turning the
> > pages. Ah, youth!
>
> Thanks for the congratulations. I'd feel even better
about my MWA
> membership if it hadn't been 25 years since my last
published work
in the
> field! (I've got a novel half-finished, but with no
deadline on it
and lots
> of deadlines on other projects, I have no idea when
or if I'll
finish the
> novel.)
>
> I've never read Trevanian. My interest in him, aside
from having
seen the
> so-so movie of "The Eiger Sanction," stems more from
one of my best
friends
> having been a student of his at UT. His obit,
though, makes him
sound like
> quite a fascinating man. Are his books, overall,
worth jumping
into?
>
> Jim Beaver
>
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