Winston Groom wasn't stupid enough to take net points, was he? I've never been within ten thousand miles of Hollywood, and even I know you don't take net points; you take gross points. Movies NEVER make money; they're not supposed to make money. If a money shows a net profit, accountants get fired.
I haven't read the book and I'm not familiar with the author, but that's one handsome looking book cover.
I just read his first novel (Waylaid) because I just found it in my apartment yesterday. Apparently someone had given it to my boyfriend, and he'd never read it and had kind of hidden it behind another layer of books on the bookshelf, because he's embarrassed to own any Asian-American literature because people might think he's getting in touch with his Asian Heritage and his Cultural Roots. Anyway it was surprisingly good, refreshingly free from the smarmy getting-in-touch-with-your-Asian-Heritage crap that seems almost like a requirement to get your book published if you're Asian, though the book still boasts plenty of racist New Jersey folk dropping C-bombs all over the place. Also Ed Lin is smoking fucking hot.
Damn, I wish I'd gone to see Lin last night. Your writeup almost had me convinced yesterday, but the idea of slogging (heh) into Seattle across the bridges had me heading home instead. Dammit.
His books (which I hadn't heard of until you brought them up) are fast-tracked into my reading pile now. Thanks, Paul.
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