Cas City Forum Hall & CAS-L
GENERAL TOPICS => Books & Movies => Topic started by: 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?
(http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab107/WaddWatsonEllis/Zorro.jpg)
-
I haven't read it but may now.
Please give us a short review when you are finished.
Will Ketchum
-
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
-
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.
-
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 ...
TTFN,
-
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?
(http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab107/WaddWatsonEllis/Zorro.jpg)
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?
-
Two bits, four bits, six bits a peso...sorry Wadd, I couldn't help myself, LOL
-
Two bits, four bits, six bits a peso...sorry Wadd, I couldn't help myself, LOL
[/quote
And I always thought the peso was worth much less than a dollar ...
TTFN
-
In all seriousness, I'd like to read the book. The movies just don't seem to do the character justice.
-
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 ....
TTFN,