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<p>[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4907233, member: 110504"]...Sadly enough, regarding both historical fiction and television, what was easy to find as of the mid-later '70's left an arbitrarily, but emphatically (...no, this is going somewhere, Promise) indelible imprint on how I've related to both genres ever since. It can't not be great --and encouraging, for the projected future of the species-- that since then, each of them (as I'm told, often on what looks like good authority) have made profound advances since then. ...Okay, for fiction, Chabon and Umberto Eco are Way Up There.</p><p>...Yipe. For historical fiction, Eco's <u>The Name of the Rose</u> (set in early-14th-c Italy) also rates. His first novel published in an English translation. Not even his best; like, for instance, Hendrix, he got better as he went along. </p><p>...But even at that, <u>The Name of the Rose</u> (along with P. D. James's <u>The Children of Men</u>) is way up there among the best novels that were made into the worst movies. ...Wish there was a category for that in the Oscars ...along with 'Movies That Were Too Good to Get an Oscar.'[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4907233, member: 110504"]...Sadly enough, regarding both historical fiction and television, what was easy to find as of the mid-later '70's left an arbitrarily, but emphatically (...no, this is going somewhere, Promise) indelible imprint on how I've related to both genres ever since. It can't not be great --and encouraging, for the projected future of the species-- that since then, each of them (as I'm told, often on what looks like good authority) have made profound advances since then. ...Okay, for fiction, Chabon and Umberto Eco are Way Up There. ...Yipe. For historical fiction, Eco's [U]The Name of the Rose[/U] (set in early-14th-c Italy) also rates. His first novel published in an English translation. Not even his best; like, for instance, Hendrix, he got better as he went along. ...But even at that, [U]The Name of the Rose[/U] (along with P. D. James's [U]The Children of Men[/U]) is way up there among the best novels that were made into the worst movies. ...Wish there was a category for that in the Oscars ...along with 'Movies That Were Too Good to Get an Oscar.'[/QUOTE]
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