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Sto caricando le informazioni... Spencer's Mountain (1961)di Earl Hamner
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Enjoyable read. It's the basis of the '63 Henry Fonda movie as well as the Walton's TV series of the '70s. Good humor and folkways of Appalachian family life. I remember reading part of it in a magazine once before. ( ) When we were young, our family always gathered to watch The Waltons on TV. I was aware that Earl Hamner had created the show, based on his family. I knew he was a writer. I really wanted to read this book someday. I rarely wish I hadn't read a book. This one just didn't hold the charm that the television series held. I know there is a movie based on this book, and I'm still very likely going to try to find it to watch. The TV show was fairly uplifting. This book features an accidental death of a key person, but then just glosses over it, like dead, buried, forgotten. I loved John Boy in the show. He always seemed rather flighty to me, and this book allows me to understand that it's the way the character was designed, and that Richard Thomas brought the charm to the character. In the book, he slept with a casual girlfriend without any real consideration. It did not feel genuine to the time, or the storytelling. I feel funny saying that, as I know this is based loosely on Hamner's life. Maybe he did just get naked and run around in a field and then just accidentally have sex with his girlfriend, so who am I to judge? Really, it could've been written much better, if that's what happened. I'm disappointed in the writing more than the lack of character development, since it is based on truth. The book on which 'The Waltons' was based,; fiction, albeit rather autobiographical, as the author recalls a rural childhood in 1930s Virginia. I loved the Waltons but wondered how it would work in book form. I neednt have worried: Hamner's family, while upstanding, are much less cloying and saccharine than their television counterparts. The only child who really features is eldest son Clay-Boy, who is on the cusp of adulthood - yearning to get a scholarship to allow him a college education, and in the throes of first love. When we first meet him, he is off on his first hunting expedition, plunging his knife into the deer's throat while the men pass the whisky around (don't recall John-Boy doing such a thing!) Delightful, folksy tale, but with heart-wrenching moments that make it all believable. The 70's generations know The Waltons but few of us know the prototype, Clayboy Spencer, as first told by Hamner. The Waltons, of course, is the made for television version of Spencer's Mountain. This prototype novel is more salty, without being graphic; more home spun without cloying. While The Waltons is more Mayberry meets the Love Boat. The emotion of Spencer's Mountain definitely feels like a real novel. A difference, for starters, is the main character. Clayboy has a hormonal balance missing from John-Boy's more contrived character. Still, the novel clearly presents a familiar outline of the later adapted TV series and still reveals the same heartwarming sense of hope. (Side note: It's a LONG way from 1925 Downtown Abby to 1933 New Dominion, VA. Pat Conroy might say, The Water Is Wide. ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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