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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 6, 2012 15:03:18 GMT
We've had musical necrology for a while, but for some reason there wasn't a thread to send off writers. =========================================================== 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. full story
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2012 16:41:30 GMT
The minute I saw the title of the thread I knew who the first subject would be.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2012 19:05:26 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2012 18:48:59 GMT
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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Post by joanne28 on Jun 20, 2012 16:36:37 GMT
Isaac Asimov refused to fly. I don't know about Ray Bradbury.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2012 10:27:12 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2012 13:14:46 GMT
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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Post by joanne28 on Jun 27, 2012 13:47:23 GMT
I was quite surprised also. 71 really is quite young nowadays.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 27, 2012 14:53:55 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2012 16:47:30 GMT
Her last movie was Julie and Julia. Meryl Streep yes, Alec Baldwin no.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 27, 2012 17:14:38 GMT
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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Post by htmb on Jun 27, 2012 17:40:21 GMT
Bixa, you are thinking of "It's Complicated," right?
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 27, 2012 17:50:05 GMT
Yeah ~~ that's it! (obviously I have not availed myself of Google on this issue)
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Post by nycgirl on Jun 28, 2012 4:50:26 GMT
Her movies were a lot of fun. She will be missed.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 30, 2012 3:34:38 GMT
Just came across this ~~
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Post by onlymark on Jun 30, 2012 16:32:24 GMT
I couldn't be bothered to read it.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2012 16:45:18 GMT
Thank you for that Bixa, thank you.
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Post by joanne28 on Jul 3, 2012 23:40:05 GMT
Great quote. I'll print that & put it up in my den, where most of my books reside.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2012 18:57:49 GMT
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.
(from BBC News)
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 7, 2012 19:18:49 GMT
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. some more details: zeenews.india.com/entertainment/bookworm/garcia-marquez-suffering-from-dementia-says-brother_2401.htm
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Post by htmb on Jul 7, 2012 19:23:58 GMT
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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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2012 11:32:21 GMT
Goodbye, Gore Vidal. Some of his stuff made me laugh.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 1, 2012 14:49:40 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2012 19:18:37 GMT
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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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 9, 2013 1:03:19 GMT
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Post by lugg on Jun 9, 2013 19:39:49 GMT
Iain Banks died from gall bladder cancer aged 59. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22835047Before his death, Banks completed The Quarry which is to be published on June 20. A novel about a man with terminal cancer which I understand Banks commenced before he was diagnosed himself.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 10, 2013 12:48:48 GMT
He had a singular mind and talent. The only one of his books I've read is The Wasp Factory. The elderly librarian here once pointed out that whenever an author died, there was a run to check out his/her books. Looking at Banks' obituary and bibliography, I see I'm about to make such a run.
I didn't know that one of his books -- The Crow Road -- had been made into a mini series.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2013 5:18:15 GMT
Richard Matheson died two days ago. He was a major horror, science fiction and fantasy writer whose principal contribution to world culture was perhaps the invention of modern day zombies in his novel I Am Legend (1954), which has been made into a movie 4 times so far.
Even though Matheson is gone, I'm sure that zombies will still be with us for a long, long time.
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Post by lugg on Aug 31, 2013 6:17:30 GMT
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 1, 2013 6:45:50 GMT
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