Chekhov's Mistress
Das Boot
I had odd reading taste as a boy. I’m one of those people with only vague childhood memories, but I remember reading (this would be in the 70s), Alive (about plane-wreck survivors resorting to cannibalism), Roots and The Boat (Das Boot) and I think a book about the Manson family murders and one about Jack the Ripper. There was some Stephen King in their too, but more teenage dissipation than reading, to tell the truth. All of those books became movies (one among several apparent themes), but Das Boot remains an all-time favorite film, a case where a story really is good enough to completely transcend it’s medium. With that, I note the passing of Lothar-Günther Buchheim, author of the novel, Das Boot, who died last week at the age of 89.
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Bud,
Thanks for the notice of the Das Boot author’s passing. I just saw the film again last month
and it was as powerful as when I viewed it in 1981, my first rated R film. I tracked down the novel having so enjoyed the film. I won’t compare them but they’re both stellar. cheers, curley
– jon curley (03/07 at 03:45 PM)
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: March 04, 2007
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Wise Men Fish Here: Literature
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