Mark Sullivan wrote:
>
>As for the music in George's books. <snip>It
really annoys
>some people, while others get a big kick out of it.
We agreed that
>generation might play some role in the
reaction.
and Mark Blumenthal replied:
>I'm presently into the third of George's books so
I've been able to
> >overcome my annoyance at all the music. I even
knew one of the songs
> >recently. If you don't, the music references are
not going to mean
> >anything and be annoying.
Maybe I'm a minority of one here, but I almost never get the
music references in George's books, particularly the ones set
in the 70s (I went to the bicentennial in DC, I have
pictures, but I was 11 months old so I don't exactly remember
it. . .) but I think they are great anyway. Even though I
very rarely have heard of the artist being mentioned, he
handles them in such a way that I can almost hear the music
anyway; it's written well enough, for me, that I can imagine
the music to go with the characters.
(I'd be all about a soundtrack CD though!) It
does take a lot of skill for "shout-outs" to work, though,
and I think most writers don't really work it into the story
but are just trying to show how hip they are.
Now I do wonder if anybody who's not an ACC basketball junkie
got hung up in the Sweet Forever (I am one, and I loved it
but I could see it being a sticking point).
Carrie
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