tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4101176263274175183.post1380762018385416303..comments2023-10-31T09:31:03.483-04:00Comments on Dave's Fiction Warehouse: Show me the money, and it's mineDave Knadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03775398291411783228noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4101176263274175183.post-75285018393791884362008-04-12T13:31:00.000-04:002008-04-12T13:31:00.000-04:00Interesting comment. The movie's setting leaves l...Interesting comment. The movie's setting leaves little place for geographic personality to come through, at least not until the final scene, when Charlie and Oliver Platt's character are fleeing. The first seventy or so pages of the book are similar. Everything happens indoors or during short drives between one bar or strip club and another. Maybe the movie's final, wind-swept scene is meant to make up for that in some way. I don't know what the novel's counterpart of that scene is; I'm still 150 or 200 pages short.<BR/><BR/>Also, the book will describe a strip club or restaurant as set in the elbow of an L-shaped shopping mall or the like, and in one scene, the protagonist bangs on the door of Hardee's, frustrated that the lights are on but the place is closed. Maybe Scott Phillips is making the setting anonymous deliberately: chain fast-food restaurants, strip malls instead of old buildings, and so on. None of this will mean much to anyone who reads or watches with Wichita on his mind, of course.Peter Rozovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977933481463759162noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4101176263274175183.post-6574011444424774832008-04-12T11:18:00.000-04:002008-04-12T11:18:00.000-04:00I liked Ice Harvest OK, but it could have been set...I liked <I>Ice Harvest</I> OK, but it could have been set anywhere. You don't get any feeling for the Midwest in general or Wichita in particular. Same goes for the John Cusack movie: no sense of place. <BR/><BR/>Some would say that's because there <I>is</I> no geographic personality out here, but I disagree. It's certainly not as distinct as Philadelphia, say, or Seattle, but the sky and the flatness impart a certain quality. Particularly during tornado season.Dave Knadlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03775398291411783228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4101176263274175183.post-301330909678375632008-04-12T03:39:00.000-04:002008-04-12T03:39:00.000-04:00Hmm, I guess the crime novel I've read most recent...Hmm, I guess the crime novel I've read most recently, <I>Money Shot</I>, by Christa Faust, is a kind of dystopian nightmare, then. Its MacGuffin is a briefcase full of money that disappears.<BR/><BR/>The crime novel I'm reading now, <I>The Ice Harvest</I>, is set in Wichita, and I think the author, Scott Phillips, may once have worked for the Eagle.<BR/>==============<BR/> Detectives Beyond Borders<BR/>"Because Murder Is More Fun Away From Home"<BR/> http://www.detectivesbeyondborders.blogspot.com/Peter Rozovskyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09977933481463759162noreply@blogger.com