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Old March 13th 05, 08:20 PM
Monboddo
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In the New York Sunday times there is an article that discusses John Dunning's new book about Cliff Janeway his intrepid bookman. It is entitled "The Sign of the Book" and is published by Scribner.

"...is the fourth in the series, and is bursting with inside dope about forged autographed copies and other dastardly examples of book fraud. The whodunit, involving the sale of a urdered man's library, is a bit of a yawn; but it's great fun thumbing the pages with Janeway, who knows his business and takes a keen, almost sensual pleasure in a virgin edition."

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Old March 15th 05, 05:50 AM
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THE SIGN OF THE BOOK is okay. Certainly a vast improvement over THE
BOOKMAN'S PROMISE, not quite up to the level of the first two Janeways.

THE BOOKMAN'S PROMISE was a huge disappointment. I have two major
complaints about it [spoiler alert]:

(1) The old lady making it all the way to Denver to die. Why didn't she
just meet Janeway on the East Coast? Because Dunning had to get Denver into
the story somehow. It was just totally unbelieveable.

(2) The central story within the story comes not from a book or a
manuscript, but from an oral history. Here was a great opportunity for
Dunning to invent a book or manuscript and he comes up with . . . a bunch of
cassette tapes. I mean, it's The BOOKman's Promise, not The Oral
Historian's Pledge.

In fact, Dunning should have left Janeway out THE BOOKMAN'S PROMISE. He
could have introduced a new bookman hero or gone another direction
altogether with the Richard Burton material. As George Lucas has proven,
bad sequels can truly devalue an entire franchise.


William M. Klimon
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In the New York Sunday times there is an article that discusses John
Dunning's new book about Cliff Janeway his intrepid bookman. It is entitled
"The Sign of the Book" and is published by Scribner.

"...is the fourth in the series, and is bursting with inside dope about
forged autographed copies and other dastardly examples of book fraud. The
whodunit, involving the sale of a urdered man's library, is a bit of a
yawn; but it's great fun thumbing the pages with Janeway, who knows his
business and takes a keen, almost sensual pleasure in a virgin edition."

visit www.jamesboswell.com


 




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