The Other Book

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I don't think Mary Boleyn was ever that important, she was just too omnipresent of a witness in this novel, or Anne Boleyn that regular. I think history doesn't believe the sisters were that particularly close as they were made out to be here.

As the "other," John William makes a fascinating study well worth exploring, and, as in his other novels, Guterson juggles time deftly as aspects of the past comment on the present, the storyteller's decisions, and the narrator's and other's experience. Anyone who's lived will recognize the way we make sense of our histories and struggle to account for this place we find ourselves. As I was halfway done, I was thinking that I wanted to put it down, yet the challenge was weighing heavily on me. I have to catch up, I have to catch up.Solomon, Aubrey. Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series). Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. ISBN 978-0-8108-4244-1. p256 When the film aired on CBS in the 1970s, the final shot replaces Winnie's line with a voiceover by Niles: "Holland, the game's over. We can't play the game anymore. But when the sheriff comes, I'll ask him if we can play it in our new home." The voiceover is dubbed by a different child than the actor and may have been edited into the television version to imply that Niles had not gotten away with murder, but was waiting to be taken to a mental health care facility. All subsequent media releases and television broadcasts omit this voiceover in favor of the original theatrical ending.

The Making of THE OTHER (1972) - memories relayed by Diana Muldaur, Don Kranze and C. Robert Holloway"I know Guterson makes John Williams out to be a sympathetic victim and also a laudable man of his principles, who gave away alllllll of his trust fund millions, blah blah blah. Chris and Martin Udvarnoky auditioned for the roles of Niles and Holland after a grade-school teacher informed their parents about the production. After they were cast, the boys met with Robert Mulligan, who asked them which boy wanted to play Niles and which boy wanted to play Holland; he then gave both boys the roles that they each asked for. In an interview for the video essay The Making of The Other, Martin Udvarnoky recalls that Mulligan was mostly a nice director on the set, but that he got a little angry during the filming of a (deleted) swimming scene where the boys were struggling to act due to the cold outdoor weather. [8] The whole enmity between sisters thing is a creation, which would be fair enough, poetic license, dramatic tension, etc etc. Except Mary hates Anne, and yet she's always doing what she's told, helping Anne out, blah blah. She'll occasionally say that of course she loves her she's her sister, but we're told far more often and with far more vehemence how much she hates her, and all we're shown is the fights and the vindictiveness. Again, this is mostly because Gregory hates Anne. She seems to like Mary, although if the real Mary was anything like the characterisation then I can't see why. Gregory's Mary is insipid, whiny and spineless, and pretty much irritates the hell out of me. And then we get the whole "wanting to marry for love and not power as a feminist statement" thing that Gregory does with Mary, while we are told Anne, who had power and intelligence in her own right, is a spineless pawn in a man's game of politics. She couldn't possibly have been regent of England without her uncle's help, we are told. This of the woman who split the church, dethroned a queen, and was mother to Queen Elizabeth. From the author of the best-selling Snow Falling on Cedars , a dazzling new novel about youth and idealism, adulthood and its compromises, and two powerfully different visions of what it means to live a good life. Third, this book had more details about sex then porn. I really wanted to hope the movie would be good and people have complained the movie is nothing like the book, which is obvious because if it was like the book it would be in the XXX section of the video stores.

Certainly, I’ve camped and hiked and strolled through many parts of it (love his mention of Ape Caves—- loved that haunt). I’ve been to Reed ( even secured a college brochure) to bike, been many an author talk @ PSU. But when that fateful day finally comes, she slowly discovers that perhaps there is hope for her, after all. I believe the title of this book is the answer to a question many may have had leading up to choosing this book. When faced between having to read this book or another one, choose the other.The book is a little over-written, but not badly so, and the characters, story, and described life events are intrinsically interesting. I'm the kind of person who will readily abandon a book I'm reading if it doesn't keep my interest. There is little danger of that with this book. That said, the interactions between the characters, while basically believable, don't always feel entirely true to life. In particular I feel the John William Barry character is underdeveloped. Guterson often takes the shortcut of describing rather than bringing the hermit to life as richly as he might. The theme of the Double is one of the most fascinating elements of gothic fiction, carrying with it a whole catalogue of literary conventions: the reflected image in the mirror or in water, the identical twin, the changeling, the dead who possess the living, the unfettered subconscious, family madness, the Devil. All these apply to The Other, which is a vague term for some possibly metaphysical entity which imposes its will on one's consciousness or behavior, a presence never recognized as a part of oneself, although psychologists may call it a projection of forbidden impulses, perhaps the Jungian Shadow.