Good post, Jeff. I enjoyed reading both.
Ed
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rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Jeff Vorzimmer"
<jvorzimmer@...> wrote:
>
> Just finished Dead Calm by Charles Williams. It's a
sequel to
Aground,
> though a much better book. The two books have a lot
in common,
besides the
> two main characters. Because they are so similar it
seems
incredible that
> the same two people could have their boats
stolen/hijacked twice
in one year
> (the two novels are set six months apart). With that
said, they
are both
> excellent books, though much different from his
"land" books. In
fact a good
> argument could be made for Dead Calm being Williams'
best novel.
My only
> problem with it, was that it delved too much into
the kind of
Freudian
> psychology that was so popular at the time
(1963).
>
> I also watched the movie with Nicole Kidman, Sam
Neill and Billy
Zane. They
> tightened up the plot in order to squeeze it into an
hour and a
half running
> time and traded the psychological aspect for the
suspense of a
> horror/slasher thriller.
>
> Well, eighteen down, three to go. Looks like it's
shaping up to be
another
> Charles Williams summer. Although filmwise I'm
catching up on the
Film Noir
> of the 40s and 50s that I missed over the years (Gun
Crazy, The
Set-up,
> Nightmare Alley, The Killing) instead of the 60s spy
movies I
watched last
> summer.
>
> Jeff
>
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