Has anyone seen the film version of Willeford's COCKFIGHTERS,
with Warren Oates? Is it good? Is it like the book?
Don
--- Jeff Vorzimmer <
jvorzimmer@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Don,
>
> Although I'm not quite as enthusiastic as others
on
> the list are about
> Willeford, I must say that I've enjoyed
everything
> I've read by him,
> especially The Black Mass of Brother Springer,
The
> Woman Chaser, The High
> Priest of California and Deliver Me from Dallas.
I
> also recommend the movie,
> The Woman Chaser, starring Patrick
Warburton
> (Puddy).
>
> Jeff
> >I would like to request please that someone
start
> by
> > talking about Charles Willeford. I am just
now
> getting
> > into him--I've read WILD WIVES,
COCKFIGHTER,
> PICK-UP,
> > and I have a copy of SIDESWIPE that I
haven't
> started
> > yet. He seems much better than average to me.
I
> > really liked a quote in the Wikipedia entry
on
> > Willeford where someone named Steve Erickson
says
> that
> > Willeford's novels are "the genre's equivalent
to
> the
> > best of the science fiction novels of Philip
K.
> Dick."
> > Being a huge PKD fan and having read all
the
> novels,
> > that quote caught my eye.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Don
>
>
>
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