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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

i guess i'll have to read the book now

i have it on my desk at work. i got it as a 'mistake' from my book club. i forgot to reply to that month's book selection so they auto sent it. i hadn't even read what the selections were. i had never heard of it anyway, so i would have said NOT to send it. i'll read it now. if it's good enough for the coens it's good enough for ME
Coens to adapt Chabon bestseller
The Coen brothers are to adapt author Michael Chabon's bestseller The Yiddish Policeman's Union for the big screen.
Joel and Ethan Coen will write and direct the Alaskan murder mystery, set in a fictional Jewish settlement, after Columbia Pictures acquired the rights.
The Coens' current film No Country for Old Men, which earned the brothers a Bafta for best director at the weekend, is nominated for eight Academy Awards. ...............

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's on my reading list for this Spring. I've loved everything I've read by Michael Chabon thus far - Summerland, Kavelier & Clay, and Wonder Boys. The last one made a fine movie as well.

Unknown said...

i've not read anything by chabon. embarrassingly enough, i had not heard of him.

Anonymous said...

He won the Pulitzer Prize for Kavalier and Clay, which is essentially a novel about two Jews who escaped the holocaust and created comic book and radio superheroes. This is based on the true creators of some of those golden-age radio shows and comics which were used to motivate soldiers and civilians by depicting the fictional heroes fighting against Nazis alongside the Allied Forces. It was a fantastic novel, I thought.

Unknown said...

i read the first ten pages. i'm impressed (and confused)