tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post6794372665321310806..comments2022-10-07T19:17:35.929-04:00Comments on Reading Richard Rohmer: Brian Busbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post-43216948978836816692014-12-31T15:34:51.628-05:002014-12-31T15:34:51.628-05:00What frightens me about E.P. Taylor: The Biography...What frightens me about E.P. Taylor: The Biography of Edward Plunket Taylor and Golden Phoenix: The Biography of Peter Munk is the many possible ways to recombine their titles and create new books. Did either of them ever stay in a house that was later used for exteriors in a British television show?Chris Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17925214622987881225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post-47727836841687173192014-12-30T16:55:00.911-05:002014-12-30T16:55:00.911-05:00Twenty-nine on Wikipedia? And not only are both Se...Twenty-nine on Wikipedia? And not only are both Separations present, but <i>Hour of the Fox</i> and <i>Sir John A's Crusade and Seward's Magnificent Folly</i> are treated as being altogether different than <i>Rommel and Patton</i> and <i>John A.'s Crusade</i>.<br /><br />Again, how to explain? <br /><br />Well, here’s what Wikipedia ignores:<br /><br /><i>How to Write a Best Seller</i><br /><i>E.P. Taylor: The Biography of Edward Plunket Taylor</i><br /><i>Golden Phoenix: The Biography of Peter Munk</i><br /><br />This best-selling biographer is offended.<br />Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post-69453426656918606602014-12-30T15:00:15.886-05:002014-12-30T15:00:15.886-05:00One of the reasons I'm putting books in boxes ...One of the reasons I'm putting books in boxes and taking them to Goodwill is that I've lost my copy of Death by Deficit somewhere in the house, and it's time to thin the brush. I was really looking forward to Death by Deficit. It was going to be my reward for finishing John A's Crusade. I have Arctic Imperative and Caged Eagle, but dammit, I want my Death by Deficit.<br /><br />And you're right, "more than 27 books" is a bizarre way to describe the 29 items in Rohmer's bibliography on his Wikipedia page, which he appears to curate. Chris Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17925214622987881225noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8987400789130903662.post-36089511245972767712014-12-30T09:18:06.603-05:002014-12-30T09:18:06.603-05:00Hey, nothing wrong with trying to influence the co...Hey, nothing wrong with trying to influence the course of events. You throw things at a wall and maybe something will stick. Time to give natural gas tanker planes another shot, I say. Better that than the Soviet/American/Chinese triad.<br /><br />What caught my eye was the general's reference to himself as the "author [of] more than 27 books of fiction and non-fiction." More than 27 seems oddly precise in its imprecision. Anyone else would've written "more than two dozen" or "nearly thirty". <br /><br />I see thirty on the nose.<br /><br />How to explain? Has he sorta stopped counting the two government reports? Has <i>Separation Two</i> - which Rohmer himself described as <a href="http://brianbusby.blogspot.ca/2014/03/recycling-richard-rohmer.html" rel="nofollow">"the same book [as <i>Separation</i>] only different"</a> - also been kinda written off.<br /><br />All this brings me to a <i>fin de l'année</i> observation: We began this project 363 days ago thinking that Rohmer might have published as many as thirty-one books. We now know the true number is thirty. How great is that? Thirteen more to go - and here I'm counting <i>John A.'s Crusade</i> and <i>Sir John A.'s Crusade and Seward's Magnificent Folly</i>… but only as one.Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.com