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MrHambre
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10-31-2003 9:41 AM


I wanted to mention a movie I recently enjoyed named 'The Stone Reader.' Documentary filmmaker Mark Moskowitz decided to track down a reclusive author who had written a landmark novel back in '72 then disappeared. His search took years, allowed him to have fascinating conversations with various literary types and book lovers about the death of great literature, and was really a thinly-veiled excuse to avoid yardwork. The mysterious author himself, Dow Mossman, finally appears, but by that time the subject is really the common pool of great literature and the word-lovers who partake of it.
Moskowitz's film was popular enough over here to get Mossman's "The Stones of Summer" republished in the USA (courtesy of Barnes & Noble), and I'm reading it now. His mad prose makes this autobiographical novel a strange delight. I can see why this heavy tome tanked thirty years ago, but I can also see why Moskowitz was so obsessed with it. Anyone turned off by adjective-crazed literary ambition should avoid this novel. Fans of eccentric visionaries should run right out, dive into the sea of its bizarre beauty, and wish you'd been able to do so years ago.
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The bear thought his son could talk in space about the time matter has to rotate but twisted heaven instead.
-Brad McFall

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10-31-2003 9:48 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by MrHambre
10-31-2003 9:41 AM


This sounds similar to the film, 'Finding Forester' with Sean Connery.
'Documentary filmmaker Mark Moskowitz decided to track down a reclusive author who had written a landmark novel back in '72 then disappeared'
However, I cannot remember if Finding Forrester was fictional. It was a nice movie nevertheless. About a reclusive author who published one great novel, give it a watch.

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