Kristie
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"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Nov 20, 2006 19:27:31 GMT -5
Okay, so in 1929, James M Barrie gave the copyright of Peter Pan to the Special Trustees of Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. Recently they commissioned a search for an author to write a sequel. They found Geraldine McCaughrean and she has just finished Peter Pan in Scarlet. I just got the book from my library, brand new. Can't read it yet because I'm trekking through Sherlock Holmes. I was just wondering if anyone out there has read Peter Pan and if so, do you think it was okay for the organization to find someone to write a sequel. I'm not too sure. I love the original and would be greatly disappointed if McCaughrean wasn't up to par with Barrie. But I'm definitely going to give it a shot.
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neh
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"I live in two worlds; one is a world of books"
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Post by neh on Nov 20, 2006 21:29:33 GMT -5
OMH MY! I had completely forgotten about this! I went through my big PP craze back in 2003 with the release of PJ Hogan's (IMO excellent) film, and i recall reading this ... odd... news in early 2004. I won't deny that it's a baizarre decision and there would certainly be worries about whether it was artistically equal as a work and morally correct as an action.... i wonder what the take is, plot-wise, in this book?
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Bina
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Post by Bina on Nov 21, 2006 10:21:19 GMT -5
I hate when they suddenly make sequels to my favorite books. I think it´s quite possible with the storyline but it was such a unique adventure of kids and of growing up. They might tell about other adventures in neverland or what happened to the children. Tell me how you liked it when you´ve read it, Kristie.
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czarval
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Post by czarval on Nov 22, 2006 15:42:41 GMT -5
I love the old Peter Pan, and I don't think they should be writing sequels for it. They newer ones don't have the same feeling.
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neh
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Post by neh on Nov 22, 2006 16:24:13 GMT -5
In my mind, i think everything that needed to be said through the original story was said and said beautifully by Barrie; a sequal serves no proper purpose in this case. It just seems so... "cheap"
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Kristie
Novel turned into BBC miniseries
"If a book is well written, I always find it too short."
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Post by Kristie on Nov 22, 2006 16:44:16 GMT -5
i'm actually expecting it to be really different. i don't really think that other-author sequels should be made, but i give them a chance usually. like mr. darcy takes a wife. while it wasn't austen-esque at all really, i really enjoyed the book anyways. so maybe that will happen for this one. i don't know. i don't see the point to other-author sequels. for that reason i hope jk rowling kills harry in the seventh book so some idiot doesn't try to write more books about him.
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czarval
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Post by czarval on Nov 22, 2006 16:46:29 GMT -5
The only other-author sequel I like is Sandition, started by Jane Austen and finished by another woman. You can't even tell where one author finishes and the other starts.
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Nov 22, 2006 16:48:21 GMT -5
sandition wasn't one of my favourites. i don't really know why, but it didn't feel like it was austen. i didn't feel like it was her usually humourous self.
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czarval
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Post by czarval on Nov 22, 2006 16:55:15 GMT -5
It wasn't really humourous, but I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be. I didn't find Persuasion all that great either, and I've always thought it was similar to that.
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Kristie
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Post by Kristie on Nov 24, 2006 14:38:37 GMT -5
Persuasion was my least favourite of all of Austen's works. Even worse than all the little stuff that she didn't really probably intend to be published.
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czarval
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Post by czarval on Nov 28, 2006 13:01:24 GMT -5
Same with me. It seemed to be the most unfinished of everything she'd done.
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Nov 28, 2006 13:38:16 GMT -5
I really like Persuasion - I like reading it and thinking about the older Jane Austen, the one who was forced to move to Bath and hated it, the one who ended up never finding love and became an old spinster, the one who discovered that life wasn't all she thought it would be...
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czarval
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Post by czarval on Nov 28, 2006 13:40:16 GMT -5
I didn't like the book because nothing happened. Pretty well everything stayed the same from beginning to end, and I can't imagine that Austen would have wanted the book like that.
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Isa
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Post by Isa on Nov 28, 2006 13:49:44 GMT -5
I don't know... I've read a lot about her life and to me it makes sense. She was sick when she wrote it and of course that has an impact on the book too... But as far as I know, she's the one who sent it off to the publisher so she must have been pleased with it.
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czarval
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Post by czarval on Nov 28, 2006 13:50:50 GMT -5
I can understand all that. But has such an unfinished feeling to it. Like what was in the finished copy was a kind of outline, that she meant to build up on but never did.
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