Old Book Club Thread - Check out the New One!

"Rorygilmore34;13854094" wrote:

"CathyTea;13854004" wrote:
All-righty! I also finished Legacies of the Sims, Season 1. So very masterful. I love the scenes of Grace lying on the train--it's always been a fantasy of mine to stowaway on a train. My boyfriend did that in the early 1970s, and his stories about it are so amazing. Plus, there's that incredible tradition that we have in American film of train stowaways....

Which brings me to...

This work is so smack in the tradition of American film--of course, there are the overt references to Classic films, but the entire plot--an abandoned mine, a dying town, a hidden pack of money, a baby on a doorstep, mob overtones... this could be a film. Its pacing and plot structure, too--very embedded in film. This insight excites me--I think that it explains some of the resonance I feel with the story.

I never looked at it as a overview of American movies! I should have had a train robbery! ;)

I think the neatest part of this all is that it's a sort of subconscious tribute--it's not like you set out to do this. It's just that as you reached into the American mythos, this is what came out to form this classic story of yours! It's very cool--and because it comes from deep American myths within us, we resonate with it in those deep areas of ourselves that respond to archetype.