From: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com (aml-list-digest) To: aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: aml-list-digest V1 #566 Reply-To: aml-list Sender: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-aml-list-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk aml-list-digest Wednesday, January 9 2002 Volume 01 : Number 566 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 15:27:38 -0800 (PST) From: Ed Snow Subject: Re: [AML] Fw: MN New Boy Band; _The Great Gatsby_ No, so far those two topics are not related, I'm just cheating in my replies. 1. Steve Perry notes that he doesn't get Gatsby. I don't either, but it's written very well--the style of the book is a wonder. For that reason I like it. 2. This new boy band is awesome--they are a cross-over Mormon/Christian phenomenon. I've heard them perform--a lot of talent going on there. And I don't really care for that genre, generally speaking, but I own the CD--there's nothing on pop radio that sounds any better. And my kids love it too. And I find myself singing some of the songs. And I really don't like In-Sync or Backstreet Boys or any other bands like that. Ed Snow ===== Read free excerpts from _Of Curious Workmanship: Musings on Things Mormon_, a Signature Books Bestseller at http://www.signaturebooks.com/bestsell.htm __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2002 17:59:41 -0600 From: "Rose Green" Subject: Re: [AML] Annual Movie Tabulation--"B" List >Also French films, like: > >Jean de Florette >Manon of the Spring (must be seen with Jean de Florette, but I can't >remember which is first) Not necessarily French, but a couple other BYU International Cinema films: 1. Restless Natives--Scottish, which means the first 15 minutes or so are spent trying to figure out if this is actually English they are speaking. Funny show about people holding up tour buses to rob. I've never been able to locate it since seeing it my freshman year at BYU. 2. Cinema Paradiso--Italian; beautiful film with great music by Ennio Morricone (did The Mission score) 3. Delicatessen--funny French comedy Rose Green _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 21:12:23 EST From: RichardDutcher@aol.com Subject: Re: [AML] Must-Read Lists In a message dated 1/7/02 3:19:40 PM Mountain Standard Time, jeff.needle@general.com writes: << I hate sound dumb...why is Anna Karenina so high on everyone's lists? I read it (albeit when I was around 24 years old, a VERY long time ago). I just don't remember it being so memorable. >> Because of Tolstoy's writing. He doesn't look away from his characters' flaws, but he portrays them with compassion. He loves them. And he has a great talent for psychological "realism." His characters think and behave like real, sane, flawed human beings. By the end of Anna Karenina and War and Peace, I loved his characters almost as much as Tolstoy did. Perhaps you've read a bad translation. There are many. I'd recommend the translation by Rosemary Edmonds or the most recent translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky (I'm not certain of the spelling). Both are excellent translations. [Richard Dutcher] - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 21:02:44 -0700 From: "J. Scott Bronson" Subject: [AML] Mainstream Interest in LDS Fiction Folks, I was going through some old files in my computer the other day and came across this: - ------------------------------------------ Dear writers, I am an assistant editor at Berkley Publishing in New York, and Michael Carr, an old friend of mine, was kind enough to forward this message on to you. I'm a BYU graduate who moved out to Manhattan to work in publishing, and my house is looking for a commercial, mainstream novel along the lines of THE THORN BIRDS by Colleen McCullough but with LDS characters. [snip] The book I'm looking for can be historical or contemporary--we're open to different ideas. But it would need to be for a general audience, as we're not specifically targeting Mormon readers. There are many people who don't know much about the LDS church, but are interested in finding out about it in a nonthreatening sort of way. I'd like something that takes readers into the life and world of an LDS woman, and reveals information about the church in a natural way that arises from the events of the story--nothing preachy, or with such an insider tone that general readers will be put off. I think a romantic/family saga, something that focuses on the life of one woman and her relationships with her family, her lover/husband, her children, and the church, has a lot of possibilities. It should be very emotional, even wrenching, and address some of the conflicts that come up between herself, her family, and her religious beliefs. There are a lot of ways this topic can be addressed, though, and we don't want to limit ourselves by being too specific so I'll stop now. Some more background on Berkley--we are one of the imprints of Penguin Putnam Inc., and we are the publishers of Tom Clancy, Nora Roberts, and Patricia Cornwell. We are known for publishing commercial novels--airport books, for lack of a better word, although we also publish more literary novels, nonfiction, and genre books (mystery, science fiction, romance, westerns). If you are interested in writing (or have written) a novel along the lines of what I've described, please send me an outline and the first 50 pages. Here's my contact information: Anne Sowards Berkley Publishing 375 Hudson Street, 5th Floor New York, NY 10014 (212) 366-2289 asowards@penguinputnam.com Thanks again, and I look forward to hearing from you. All best, Anne Sowards - ------------------------------------------- I had set it aside because I didn't have anything like the Thornbirds and knew that I never would, but thought that throwing away an editor's contact info was a pretty stupid thing to do. I reread the post and it suddenly struck me that my novel, _The Whipping Boy_ fit the general description up to about 75 %. So I queried her. I included Andrew Hall's very kind review to give her an idea of what the book was about. I said to her: "since it's an unsolicited review that I didn't write myself, you don't necessarily have to consider it hyperbole." Well, she asked to see the manuscript. I sent her a quick note to let her know that it was coming: > Actually, I have yet to find my LDS novel for a mainstream audience. We talk about that a lot on the AML-List. A LOT. > I received a number of submissions, but nothing was exactly right. She replied back today with this: Feel free to tell the AML-list I'm still looking . . . I'm also looking for a not necessarily LDS cozy mystery series with a genealogist as a sleuth. The protagonist doesn't need to be LDS. So, if anyone's got something like that on the brain ... here's an opportunity for you. J. Scott Bronson -- Member of Playwrights Circle - ------------------------------------------------------------------ "The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do." Galileo - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 11:33:47 -0600 From: Jonathan Langford Subject: [AML] Book Review Info Folks, In response to Terry's challenge, we've already received several unsolicited reviews. That's great! However, some of you have been forgetting to include the publication information at the top. Specifically, this includes (either in paragraph or list format): Author Title Publisher Date of publication Hardcover / softcover Number of pages ISBN Cost in US dollars You should also include a "Reviewed by __" line before the text of the review. If some of this information is not available, please make a note of that (e.g., if you have been given a preprint version without the price, or if there is no date of publication). Our reviews will be more useful, however, if they can include as much of this information as possible... Thanks again to all of you for helping make the AML-List Review Archive the largest and most complete that is out there for Mormon publications. Jonathan Langford - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 17:43:24 -0700 From: "Nan McCulloch" Subject: Re: [AML] Must-Read Lists Like I said about _Madame Bovary_, there are few redeeming qualities in the characters in _The Great Gatsby_. Unlike most of the people on this list, my opinion of a book has nothing to do with my fondness for the characters. I enjoy books that are well written and that present a world that is unfamiliar to me. I am fascinated with the shallow, excesses of the 1920's. My parents were young marrieds in the 20's and I have one of my mother's old beaded flapper dresses. Since they were not prone to excess, I find this contrast particularly interesting. Thanks for asking. Nan McCulloch Draper, Utah - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve" To: Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 1:31 PM Subject: Re: [AML] Must-Read Lists > on 1/3/02 9:45 PM, Nan McCulloch at mcnandon@hotmail.com wrote: > > > 4. The Great Gatsby - > > What is it about people and this book? I forced myself to read it last year > thinking that my grown-up self would find something in it my teenage-age > self missed. > > Nada. > > To me, the characters are nowhere at the beginning and are still there at > the end (okay, a few people have died, but who would notice in this book?), > there isn't enough of the historical setting to make it readable as > historical info. This is one of the most forgettable books I've ever made > myself read. Nan, I don't doubt you have your reasons; can you fill me in? > > :-) > > Steve > > -- > skperry@mac.com > > "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." > - Groucho Marx > > > > > > -- > AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature > > - -- AML-List, a mailing list for the discussion of Mormon literature ------------------------------ End of aml-list-digest V1 #566 ******************************