Re: Karl May

>Yes, Karl May was actually a very good adventure novelist. His books about
>"American Indians" are first rate. He remains popular in the German
>speaking world. I don't believe he's ever caught on beyond that confine.
>

i'm a lifetime devourer of western novels and literature, read karl may's
winnetou, it lacked something in its flow but aside from, or balancing
with, that, was the sense of a great spirit at work in the envisioning of
it at all - -

if you are in to literary quality westerns written in our time the best is
Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove.  Unfortunately, most folks who read it were
turned toward it by the movie and tv miniseries and so they lost 9/10ths of
its brilliance as, for one, by now having a face in mind, say danny glover
for deets etc. which (and having myself not seen any visual productions of
the book at all) when I heard it was he who played deets it seemed
impossible, the only person who could do deets was deets the character,
living of himself and no mere actor, but how to explain this i don't know

p'raps to say, a visualization created solely by the written word is light
years superior to any concrete visual image that is "merely there". you can
never really transfer a book to a movie, the worst attempt i know of was
moby dick, gregory peck was no ahab

as danny glover is no deets

etc.

ken'th




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