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Zorro ....
« on: April 19, 2012, 11:17:54 PM »
No, Not that movie with Antonio Balderas ... but the book by Isabel Allende ... it starts out with the beginning ... how Don Diego de la Vega ( the part playd as a late-in-life Don Diego/Zorro as Anthony Hopkins in the movie) became the jaded cynical Californio Ranchero owner while all the time living the part of Zorro.

I just picked up the book ... it was like a bit of magic and I was drawn to it ...

Out of curiosity, has anyone read it?

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Re: Zorro ....
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2012, 09:55:55 PM »
I haven't read it but may now.

Please give us a short review when you are finished.

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Re: Zorro ....
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2012, 11:12:46 PM »
Marshall Will,

Can and will do ... right now I am reading a book suggested on here ... " Five  Years A Dragoon" by Percival G Lowe which I am thoroughly enjoying ... this man knew Grant, Sherman and Sheridan on their way up as lieutenants ... I am guessing he knew Robert E Lee ... who was in the neighborhood ... and as a quatermaster he dealt with all of them....

http://www.amazon.com/years-dragoon-other-adventures-Plains/dp/1178672514/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334981459&sr=1-1

Next on the list is "Queen of the Nothern Mines" by Richard Hurley and TJ Meeklns ... which takes a look at the Confederate intreste in the mines (and gold) of the Northern California Mines ...

 

http://www.amazon.com/Queen-Northern-Mines-Novel-California/dp/0983179808/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1334981379&sr=1-1
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Re: Zorro ....
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2012, 01:50:57 PM »
How does it compare with the original Zorro story, Johnston McCulley's "The Curse of Capistrano" (1919)? I remember reading it in a Dell paperback edition in the early '60s and being a bit disappointed. Nowhere near as much action as in the tv series, which I loved. I'll have to give it another try. I appreciate early 20th century pulp better now than I did in my teens. I may give the Allende book a try, too.
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« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2012, 06:00:08 PM »
Hi Kid,

I am a sloooow reader  ... still working on '5 Years a Dragoon' ... but will chime in with my likes and dislikes as soom as I get to it ...

I think I am going to try to read the 'Quen or the Norhtern Mines' and it simultaneously ... that way I might have an opinion quicker ...

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Re: Zorro ....
« Reply #5 on: May 02, 2012, 10:00:29 PM »
Quote from: WaddWatsonEllis on April 19, 2012, 11:17:54 PM
No, Not that movie with Antonio Balderas ... but the book by Isabel Allende ... it starts out with the beginning ... how Don Diego de la Vega ( the part playd as a late-in-life Don Diego/Zorro as Anthony Hopkins in the movie) became the jaded cynical Californio Ranchero owner while all the time living the part of Zorro.

I just picked up the book ... it was like a bit of magic and I was drawn to it ...

Out of curiosity, has anyone read it?



JAfter seeing this post, I borrowed the book from the library.  Just finished it.  A good read.  Just enough action to keep it interesting, and enough social history details to remember.  Not sure how accurate it is?
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Re: Zorro ....
« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2012, 12:41:52 AM »
Two bits, four bits, six bits a peso...sorry Wadd, I couldn't help myself, LOL
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Re: Zorro ....
« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2012, 01:13:11 AM »
Quote from: Drayton Calhoun on June 13, 2012, 12:41:52 AM
Two bits, four bits, six bits a peso...sorry Wadd, I couldn't help myself, LOL
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And I always thought the peso was worth much less than a dollar ...

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Re: Zorro ....
« Reply #8 on: June 14, 2012, 12:09:03 AM »
In all seriousness, I'd like to read the book. The movies just don't seem to do the character justice.
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Re: Zorro ....
« Reply #9 on: June 14, 2012, 04:20:40 AM »
It is available out of the Library ... you might have to order it from a main library, but the gist is that it is still free ... for right now anyway ....

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"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." John Wayne
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