TRP's suggested reading

[MASCARO at humnet.ucla.edu]

The movie is the book John B. thinks he is describing.  Watched w/ the same postmodern 
eye you watch old *Bonanza* reruns with, it's funny, though it doesn't know it.  The 
book knows what it is doing, IMO.
john m
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davemarc writes:
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>Pynchon praised Warlock in the mid-Sixties and again in the mid-Eighties. 
>No doubt it's linked with treasured collegiate memories, but it's also
>clear that the book continued to "speak" to him as he matured.  My
>paperback advertises the film version as "A mighty Twentieth Century-Fox
>picture, produced and directed by Edward Dmytryk, starring Henry Fonda,
>Richard Widmark, Anthony Quinn and Dorothy Malone."   Also appearing in it
>is the beloved DeForest Kelley.  Maltin gives the flick 3 stars and sez
>it's "Forgotten, but worthy of rediscovery."