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Literary farewells
« Thread Started on Jun 6, 2012, 3:03pm »		[Quote]
We've had musical necrology for a while, but for some reason there wasn't a thread to send off writers.

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Ray Bradbury, whose books took readers on imaginary journeys to the outermost edges of the galaxy without leaving their own back yards, has died at age 91, according to published reports. The author of classic books such as "Fahrenheit 451" and "The Martian Chronicles" was born in Waukegan, Ill, on Aug. 22, 1920, the son of a utility lineman. He was living in Los Angeles at the time of his death, his home for the past several decades.
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« Reply #1 on Jun 6, 2012, 4:41pm »		[Quote]
The minute I saw the title of the thread I knew who the first subject would be.
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« Reply #2 on Jun 6, 2012, 7:05pm »		[Quote]
Oh Goodness...first I'm hearing of this.
Am I dreaming or was he not a practitioner of Zen Buddhism? Somehow,that seems to stand out in my mind about him
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« Reply #3 on Jun 8, 2012, 6:48pm »		[Quote]
One thing that I "remembered" about him was that he refused to fly. But now I am questioning that information as well.
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« Reply #4 on Jun 20, 2012, 4:36pm »		[Quote]
Isaac Asimov refused to fly. I don't know about Ray Bradbury.
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« Reply #5 on Jun 27, 2012, 10:27am »		[Quote]
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/27/movies....pagewanted=a ll
Nora Ephron, age 71, author, essayist, screenwriter and director.
I was quite taken aback when I heard this news on the radio this morning.
I admired her wit and some of her screenplays.
And, she was the consummate New Yorker.
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« Reply #6 on Jun 27, 2012, 1:14pm »		[Quote]
In this day, that is also quite a young age to die.

Sleepless in Seattle, even in France, just plays over and over again on cable almost every day.
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« Reply #7 on Jun 27, 2012, 1:47pm »		[Quote]
I was quite surprised also. 71 really is quite young nowadays.
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« Reply #8 on Jun 27, 2012, 2:53pm »		[Quote]
Same reaction from me, about the age.

Was that movie with Meryl Streep & Alec Baldwin the last big thing of hers?
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« Reply #9 on Jun 27, 2012, 4:47pm »		[Quote]
Her last movie was Julie and Julia. Meryl Streep yes, Alec Baldwin no.
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« Reply #10 on Jun 27, 2012, 5:14pm »		[Quote]
Mmm. I thought she wrote & produced the movie where Streep & Baldwin are a divorced couple who get back together. It's a more recent movie than J&J.
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« Reply #11 on Jun 27, 2012, 5:40pm »		[Quote]
Bixa, you are thinking of "It's Complicated," right?
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« Reply #12 on Jun 27, 2012, 5:50pm »		[Quote]
Yeah ~~ that's it! :D

(obviously I have not availed myself of Google on this issue)
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« Reply #13 on Jun 28, 2012, 4:50am »		[Quote]
Her movies were a lot of fun. She will be missed.
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« Reply #14 on Jun 30, 2012, 3:34am »		[Quote]
Just came across this ~~

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« Reply #15 on Jun 30, 2012, 4:32pm »		[Quote]
I couldn't be bothered to read it.
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« Reply #16 on Jun 30, 2012, 4:45pm »		[Quote]
Thank you for that Bixa, thank you.
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« Reply #17 on Jul 3, 2012, 11:40pm »		[Quote]
Great quote. I'll print that & put it up in my den, where most of my books reside.
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« Reply #18 on Jul 7, 2012, 6:57pm »		[Quote]
Not yet deceased, but it appears that we must already say farewell to Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Garcia Marquez 'suffering from dementia', says brother

The brother of Gabriel Garcia Marquez says that the Colombian writer and winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature is suffering from dementia.

Jaime Garcia Marquez told students at a lecture in the city of Cartagena that his brother, who is 85, phones him frequently to ask basic questions.

"He has problems with his memory. Sometimes I cry because I feel like I'm losing him," he said.

He says the author has stopped writing altogether.

The BBC's Arturo Wallace in Colombia said there have been rumours about Mr Garcia Marquez' memory problems.

Jaime Garcia Marquez, his younger brother, is the first family member to speak publicly about it.

Invited to talk about his relationship with Gabo, as the writer is affectionately known in Colombia, Jaime said he could not hold back from talking about his illness anymore.

"He is doing well physically, but he has been suffering from dementia for a long time," he said. "He still has the humour, joy and enthusiasm that he has always had."

The 1967 masterpiece of magic realism, One Hundred Years of Solitude, begins with the story of a family unable to care for their senile grandfather.

"It is a disease that runs in the family," said Jaime Garcia Marquez.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez currently lives in Mexico and has not made many public appearances in recent years.

His novels include Love in the Time of Cholera, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and the The General in His Labyrinth.

He is best known for One Hundred Years of Solitude, which has sold more than 30 million copies and been translated into more than 30 languages.

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« Reply #19 on Jul 7, 2012, 7:18pm »		[Quote]
I'm actually crying as I write this. Seeing this thread come to the top is always cause for dread, but this news is just unutterably sad. Although because of his age and his bout with cancer, it's unrealistic to think that García Márquez could live for many, many more years, it's still so hard to imagine that brilliant, lively mind no longer being able to do what its owner wants it to.

One Hundred Years of Solitude is hands down my favorite book in a lifetime of reading. Perhaps it's fitting that one of its most compelling scenes is how the patriarch finally wanders so far into his own mind and memories that he does not wake up ever again.

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« Reply #20 on Jul 7, 2012, 7:23pm »		[Quote]
Yes, this is indeed very sad. "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and "Love in the Time of Cholera" are two of my most favorite books. It is time for me to read them again.
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« Reply #21 on Aug 1, 2012, 11:32am »		[Quote]
Goodbye, Gore Vidal. Some of his stuff made me laugh.
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« Reply #22 on Aug 1, 2012, 2:49pm »		[Quote]
Ah ~~ you catch these news items so much earlier in your time zone. Well, since I have the obit link copied, here it is:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/books/....gewanted=all&hp
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« Reply #23 on Aug 1, 2012, 7:18pm »		[Quote]
Sorry to hear this.
I often wondered what he would have been like as a politician. He was already pompous and arrogant enough to be able to pull it of without too much effort. I would have voted for him.
He had a certain elegance about him.

What I really loved was watching him on Johnny Carson late at night having a go at Truman Capote and Norman Mailer. Very funny stuff.
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« Reply #24 on Apr 9, 2013, 1:03am »		[Quote]
Reporting late on this loss, Chinua Achebe, who died in March: http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/22/world/obit....article_sidebar
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