Describe your new book. Oddfellow's Orphanage is a series of stories/vignettes that tell the tale of the newest arrival to a curious orphanage, a...
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A multi-layered look writing, writer, character & story. How does a character come into being? Does the author pick the character? If so, from where? Or does the character pick the author? How? Is there a relationship between the creator & the created? What is the nature of that relationship? Is it one of master & servant & if so: who is master & who the servant? How is the story created? Does the character effect the plot & story development? And what of the reader? Is the reader evan necessary? A thought-provoking look into the mind (or minds?) of writer & character.
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My only comment, other than that I have liked the earlier tales of Socrates Fortlow & most of Walter Mosley's work, is that I have not yet read this book but expect to & to enjoy it given WM's ability to tell a good tale especially about Socrates & his other characters - EZ Rawlins & the homicidal Mouse.
PS Why doesn't Spike Lee or Clint Eastwood make a few movies about these characters?
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R A, January 10, 2009
A multi-layered look writing, writer, character & story. How does a character come into being? Does the author pick the character? If so, from where? Or does the character pick the author? How? Is there a relationship between the creator & the created? What is the nature of that relationship? Is it one of master & servant & if so: who is master & who the servant? How is the story created? Does the character effect the plot & story development? And what of the reader? Is the reader evan necessary? A thought-provoking look into the mind (or minds?) of writer & character.(3 of 6 readers found this comment helpful)
The Right Mistake: The Further Philosophical Investigations of Socrates Fortlow by Walter Mosley
R A, November 5, 2008
My only comment, other than that I have liked the earlier tales of Socrates Fortlow & most of Walter Mosley's work, is that I have not yet read this book but expect to & to enjoy it given WM's ability to tell a good tale especially about Socrates & his other characters - EZ Rawlins & the homicidal Mouse.PS Why doesn't Spike Lee or Clint Eastwood make a few movies about these characters?
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Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of a Race from 4500BC to 2000AD by Chancellor Williams
R A, June 10, 2008
2000 AD: Prior to entry into Africa by outsiders? Seems a bit late for that, surely "outsiders" were there earlier?(3 of 8 readers found this comment helpful)