tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20041073.post115687203414257286..comments2024-01-08T03:14:29.998-05:00Comments on Rhinoplastique presents: The Blind Spot: No Shiny Glove, No Lovemarc bernardinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05136417784259037981noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20041073.post-1157076276262925832006-08-31T22:04:00.000-04:002006-08-31T22:04:00.000-04:00I suppose. But you read a book like Pimp: The Stor...I suppose. But you read a book like Pimp: The Story of My Life, by Iceberg Slim, and it's a great book by a horrible person. Even despite the fact that he's a horrible person.marc bernardinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05136417784259037981noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20041073.post-1157070984084479002006-08-31T20:36:00.000-04:002006-08-31T20:36:00.000-04:00I wonder about HOW divorced, however. I would not ...I wonder about HOW divorced, however. I would not trade back <I>Triumph</I> or <I>Birth</I> or <I>Thriller</I>.. or <I>Collateral</I> or <I>Risky Business</I> or <I>Payback</I> for that matter.. for the world.<BR/><BR/>But I can't imagine ever totally divorcing the material from the source. Perhaps it's easier in movies -- in those cited, you have a lot of other factors at work that made it what it was. (Mann directing <I>Collateral</I>, for instance. And the hundreds of people involved in major pictures.) But what about novels? Self-published comics? (Thinking specifically of Dave Sim there.) Single-source works... much harder to consider the work without at least knowing something about the source.Ken Loweryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13582094936838936011noreply@blogger.com