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Anyone hereabouts read Mannly Wade Wellman ?

I guess no one has ,EH ? His works were of a fantasy ,science fiction bent,set in the mtns. of North Carolina and at least one story was historical science fiction ,I dont know what else he wrote ,highly entertaining though .

It's not my thing I know. Sorry.

http://www.manlywadewellman.com/ , I will tell you this I was very surprised when I googled the Author .

I hadn't heard of him kmc, but it looks like the kind of stuff that I generally like...

No ,he isnt well known ,but when you get into his writing ,its very creative . I find it hard to get interested in the current crop of superwriters ,who have these ghostwriters turning out work after work.
I finally fell out with the real famous ones who couldnt ever create a happy ending ,but Dean Koontz on the other hand leads us into a universe where the good can win and life goes on ,about Dean K ,after about the first 3 chapters ,I can tell if I want to finish it or return it to the library ."The Taking " viewed in the proper perspective was terrifying .
The" Repairman Jack " universe was very entertaining ,right now I cannot for the life of me remember the author .
I miss Micheal Crichton and Arthur C Clarke ,Ted Sturgeon and Robert Heinlein were great also ,some of the classic writers , Bram Stoker ,Mary Shelley .Jules Verne ,H G Welles , Edgar Allen Poe and others of the Genre of the unsaul ,I always maintained that Micheal Crichtons works were much better then the movie adaptations ,et al : I do not like sexually explicit works ,that are the spewings of sick depraved minds .
Someone once told me that Tom Clancy had an inside line on things military ,in retrospect , I must concede that seems to have some truth to it .

I wish that Jane Smiley would write a sequel to A Thousand Acres.

What genre is that novel ?

liberty wrote:I wish that Jane Smiley would write a sequel to A Thousand Acres.

Why? Shakespeare didn't need a sequel to King Lear.

Some stories are complete in one presentation and can bear no improving.

BoSoxGal wrote:

liberty wrote:I wish that Jane Smiley would write a sequel to A Thousand Acres.

Why? Shakespeare didn't need a sequel to King Lear.

Some stories are complete in one presentation and can bear no improving.

Well, evidently you have the read the book so you know it is king Lear like story, but I don’t care about that; all I care about is that it is a good story and I would like to see a sequel; perhaps one with a happy ending. As she said in the story, I was happy enough until he came. I think she was stupid for not going back to her husband. She lost everything including the possibility of the baby she wanted so badly over an infatuation.

Well now you went and ruined it for me.

I wouldn't worry, oldr, what liberty wrote doesn't bring to mind the main themes of the book and I'm not sure about the details he shared. It's been 20 years since I read A Thousand Acres . . . but even today I wouldn't wish for a happy ending. What makes the novel such great literature is that it captures life as it is, not as we might wish it to be. Very few true stories have happy endings, so the very good literature that captures the truth of life generally captures a lot of the suffering and angst of real life. For happy endings, one is better served by romance novels.

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

kmccune wrote:"... others of the Genre of the unsaul ...

km, you really need to find a better way to post, or at least review what it is that you are posting before you hit "send".

-"BB"-

Yes, I have read Wellman. I use his story about the iternerant carpenter who is hired to build a fence and instead builds a bridge, nearly every year during the Christmas season.

And I have trouble finding my pocket knife.

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And I have trouble finding my pocket knife.

I hate when that happens.

Silver John never has that problem

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