Word: books
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There are few things I hate more in a movie review than when the reviewer can't stop talking about how much better the book was. Most times, you haven't read the book. You're too busy to read the book. And if you cared enough to read the book yourself, you're probably going to see the movie anyway and decide for yourself. So I promise I won't tell you how much I relished Patricia Highsmith's wicked little fiction The Talented Mr. Ripley a couple years ago, and its four cold-blooded sequels in the years...
...Ripley is more stubborn than he seems, especially when he realizes that he's suddenly living the life he always wanted. Highsmith's book keeps the audience engaged just by introducing clearheaded, elegant Tom Ripley. He's fascinating because we know what he's capable of, which is just about anything. He's like Hannibal Lecter minus all that nonsense about fava beans and a nice chianti. But the movie takes the story in an entirely different direction simply by a shift of emphasis. Where Highsmith's 1950's novel barely dares to hint at any latent homoeroticism, the movie...
...prize honors Cohn's most recent book of comparative literary theory, The Distinction of Fiction...
Cohn said the book began as a series of essays written for various periodicals...
...Freud's case histories, one was on Proust, and I decided that they all fit together. I added some chapters to the essays that I published, and it seems to be considered a real book. I am very pleased about the award, of course," she said...