tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post194104589025448018..comments2022-10-07T19:17:35.929-04:00Comments on Reading Richard Rohmer: Brian Busbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post-46751303935532290312014-06-29T16:08:17.331-04:002014-06-29T16:08:17.331-04:00Seems fair. I've been wavering between C and C...Seems fair. I've been wavering between C and C- myself. How did our college profs do it?Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post-78562930752902510952014-06-29T15:09:22.875-04:002014-06-29T15:09:22.875-04:00Yag. C?Yag. C?Chris Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17925214622987881225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post-41705000594804849582014-06-29T15:08:59.284-04:002014-06-29T15:08:59.284-04:00I'd be telling tales out of school if I talked...I'd be telling tales out of school if I talked about my experiences with this process, professionally. (And on both sides. Correcting and being corrected.) But I'd feel like someone's was letting me down if they chose not to say, "With all due respect..." (Like in the movies) "... that's not how the thing worked." Especially if I was going to get snotty, a few pages later, about whether Patton's pistols were pearl or ivory-handled.Chris Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17925214622987881225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post-76662893693535616452014-06-29T08:06:16.635-04:002014-06-29T08:06:16.635-04:00Done. Grade?Done. Grade?Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post-79057147089717798012014-06-29T08:04:20.251-04:002014-06-29T08:04:20.251-04:00I'm not sure he's lazy so much as overly c...I'm not sure he's lazy so much as overly confident. He <i>knows</i> how the V-1 worked, and will tell you about the “precisely measured fuel” in one paragraph, and “carefully measured fuel” the next. The mistake is repeated word for word in the second edition. Did no one correct the major-general? Did anyone dare?Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post-17584255584132406222014-06-29T07:40:06.937-04:002014-06-29T07:40:06.937-04:00I was the proud owner of a pristine, unread copy -...I was the proud owner of a pristine, unread copy - you'd almost think it had been brought to a used bookstore by Marty McFly. Of course, now it's getting all marked up. Coming generations of Richard Rohmer readers will curse me.Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post-81906998899590915282014-06-29T02:34:34.227-04:002014-06-29T02:34:34.227-04:00Brian -- I've written a capsule for Patton'...Brian -- I've written a capsule for Patton's Gap. Can you paste it in?<br /><br />Young Richard Rohmer flies a P-51 Mustang over D-Day. He needs two pillows to see out the cockpit and when he’s introduced to Lieutenant General George S. Patton Jr., Patton thinks he’s a baby or a puppet or something. Rohmer exchanges blows with an English woman who runs a whorehouse and later, at a French chateau, his buddies dump sewage on him in the toilet. He meets Dirk Bogarde. The Allies drive the Germans out of Normandy, but not as fast as Rohmer would like and, in a Rohmer trademark last-line-in-the-book shocker, he blames… General… Montgomery.Chris Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17925214622987881225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post-90704923821550656922014-06-28T23:06:41.647-04:002014-06-28T23:06:41.647-04:00Richard Rohmer also has no idea how a V-1 worked. ...Richard Rohmer also has no idea how a V-1 worked. This wasn't a secret when he wrote Patton's Gap. It's just lazy. Still love the old guy, though.Chris Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17925214622987881225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post-3847075246468188242014-06-28T22:43:11.476-04:002014-06-28T22:43:11.476-04:00Brian, I assume you own a copy of "Retaliatio...Brian, I assume you own a copy of "Retaliation" because you've posted a picture of the cover. What about you, Stan? Are you back from vacation? Do you have access to retaliation?Chris Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17925214622987881225noreply@blogger.com