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John Dunning
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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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 http://www.catholicbookcollector.com "Monboddo" wrote in message ... 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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