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A carregar... Why Not Catch 21? (original 2007; edição 2007)por Gary Dexter
Informação Sobre a ObraWhy Not Catch-21?: The Stories Behind the Titles por Gary Dexter (2007)
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.   ) Lilac22 | Oct 4, 2020 |  Sometimes it more goes into the background of the novel rather than the title itself and while interesting isn't really what I was expecting ( ) wyvernfriend | May 11, 2010 |  ) JonathanGorman | Mar 4, 2010 | The concept is wonderful - giving the "story" behind the titles of 50 works of literature. And there were parts of the book I really liked. The problem was two-fold. In order to fit the backstories for 50 titles into a 200 page book, each chapter was necessarily pretty short. So in the cases where the story was truly interesting, it kept me wanting more. But that is also part of the 2nd problem. Most of the stories were not interesting. Admittedly, some of my lack of interest was due to the fact that I had not read - and in some cases, had not even HEARD - most of the titles in the book. Picture of Dorian Gray, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Moby-Dick, etc. - no problem. Again, not all were interesting, but I could get "into" the explanations. But Gargantua and Pantagruel, Astrophil and Stella, Shamela, Poems of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell ????? The fact I had heard of none of these wouldn't have been a problem if then the story behind their names was even remotely interesting. The redeeming value came from the nuggets I could sink my teeth into. Worth a skim for some of the factoids (impress your friends at dinner parties with the original title of Catch-22, etc.) but not a tome worthy of heavy study. (  ) pbadeer | Jan 2, 2010 | ) 391 | Sep 9, 2009 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Most book titles simply describe the contents of the book they are attached to. Crime and Punishment is about crime and punishment, and Brideshead Revisited is about revisiting Brideshead. But a small number of book titles have a rather odd, separate existence, almost as independent literary artefacts. The stories behind them are quite different from the stories behind the actual books. Winnie-the-Pooh, for example is to do with a swan on a pond at a holiday cottage. The Postman Always Rings Twice is about the travails of a screenwriter. And Catch-22 only got that way after a clash with another author, and via a route that included several other numbers. In Why Not Catch-21?, Gary Dexter looks at 50 iconic books and explores the fascinating stories behind how they got their titles. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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