Re: Rainy novels set upon on r.a.b.

As I just mentioned on the "Voices of the Gods" thread,
I posted several responses yesterday morning -- including
one here -- but have yet to see them on Google. Apologies
if you end up seeing highly similar posts.


the Robot Vegetable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Ah! _Sometimes A Great Notion_ features rain front and 
> center.  It's been a few years since I was down 126 toward the coast.  
> I expect the house has finally rotted into the Siuslaw by now; there
> were a few timbers left standing the last I saw.  It was waiting out 
> Kesey, I bet.

You know, I've been through that area countless times -- it's above
Florence, near Mapleton, isn't it? -- and never seen the house.
Although I suspect you're talking about the house that appears in
the so-so Paul Newman/Henry Fonda/Michael Sarrazin/Lee Remick movie,
as opposed to the one in the book, which sounds as if it's situated
more east of Reedsport, somewhat to the south of the movie version.

>     _The Drowned World_ seems like a candidate, J.G. Ballard, but I 
> haven't read it.

Good book, anyway. I don't recall the rain being a current feature
of that story so much as a background fact. The narrative centers
more on what people do among the half-submerged skyscrapers of this
future world.


> The movie about that expedition down the Amazon, what was it, _Aguirre,
> The Wrath of God_ maybe?  It must have a novel.

No, I don't think it was. I just saw this on DVD two weeks ago for
the first time (added the second "r" to the protagonist's name). It
purports to be based on the journal of a priest attached to the
expedition, but writer-director Werner Herzog has admitted to making
it all up.


>     Just a sprinkle of soggy books; there must be more.

Once again, I offer my vehement quarterly recommendation that RABsters
hunt down a copy of the late Timothy Findley's _Not Wanted on the
Voyage_, an astoundingly imaginative retelling of the Noah story.


David Loftus