Ritual Finders Keepers Forgery David Pinner 9780956706317 Books
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A missing child, psychological trickery, sexual seduction, ancient religious practices and sacrificial rituals. Rediscover the original seed that spawned 'The Wicker Man' film legacy.
Ritual Finders Keepers Forgery David Pinner 9780956706317 Books
It is really amazing that two movies were made from this book. It is abyssmally bad. The author is not really a writer but an actor, I researched, and his capability of using the English language is definitely very limited. Especially metaphors are not his thing. Want an example?"Blackberries and strawberries uncoiled under his feet like electric springs." (Loc. 497 in the Kindle Edition) Can anyone explain what that is supposed to mean? "Electric springs"? "Blackberries under his feet?" As if they didn't grow in huge thorny hedges!
Example number two: "The butterfly fluttered onto her left breast. It sensed the pulse of her tired nipple." (Loc 598) Wow, what a sensitive butterfly, and how does the narrator know about its sensations?
I don't think I'll read on. The time for return for refund has passed but it wasn't expensive anyway, but it's rubbish.
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Ritual Finders Keepers Forgery David Pinner 9780956706317 Books Reviews
It was a great classic story. The writing was eclectic. The protagonist was entertaining. The writer kept me interned to the end. Curious how the story would go since it was nothing like The Wicker Man. Nice twist.
There are other reviews that go into deeper details of the novel. I am only going to impart a few impressions since I just finished (struggled) to read this. Firstly, it is certainly NOT the Wicker Man. I understand that when novels are adapted into films there is bound to go through some alterations but the similarities beween novel and film are so vague that without foreknowledge of their kinship to one another one would hardly believe that the former inspired the latter. It begins promisingly and there is a subtle mood slowly establishing itself but as the razor-thin story progresses it devolves into something I can only describe as a very uninspired and not very funny Monty Python sketch---after John Cleese left the show. It meanders along without any particular direction. As the realization sinks in that this will not resemble Wicker Man I attempt to allow the novel to work on it's own merits. It is a pretty fast read but it's like having a banquet of candy and other creamy confections that have absolutely no substance to fill you in a positive way. The writing can be unintentionally (or intentionally) hysterical and pretentious with such literary bon bons as " the church of her body acheed to chime" or "Murder does not exist at dawm. It belongs to the vampire hour, to spilt ink at sunset. Now murder and Anna's nipples surged unheard in the undercurve of the wave". This sounds like the submission of someone taking a higher education creative writing course. The dialogue even sounds like it sound be uttered by silent movie characters. It was a struggle to get through this junk. I wanted to see where the film originated but this is a mystery why anyone would see potential in this story and see a film in it. Skip the novel and just watch the film. One star is being very generous.
I thought it was pretentiously convoluted. This was the most tedious thing I have read since "Tybee." All books are experiential in nature and perhaps you will find this a better read than I. The best part to me was it's sudden ending.
David Pinner, Ritual (Finders Keepers, 1967)
I find it absolutely staggering that Ritual was out of print for as long as it was before being resurrected by Finders Keepers--a music collective, not a press--in 2011. After all, Ritual is the novel that Robin Hardy and Anthony Shaffer loosely adapted to create The Wicker Man, one of filmdom's enduring classics (despite the slight loss of luster form the abortion foisted on the world as a "reimagining" in 2006). According to Finders Keepers' preface to the new edition, Christopher Lee had optioned the book himself back in the sixties, but Lee, Hardy, and Shaffer, after the deal fell through, thought the source material was too good to pass up and, in essence, cooked up their own version by changing a few key elements. And yes, you will be able to see a good deal of similarity between the two stories.
Plot Eight-year-old Dian Spark falls to her death while climbing a tree. Or so it would seem; why would she be climbing a tree whilst clutching a garlic blossom? Big-city inspector David Hanlin is called in to investigate, and the more the clannish villagers try to keep the incident to themselves, the harder he tries to break through their shell, until the Mayday festival reveals all to everyone involved...
Since the question that's going through your head right now is "is it as good as The Wicker Man?" I'll start by telling you the answer is no. Nor is it as good as Hardy and Shaffer's novelization of Shaffer's script (cf. review 29Mar04 ish). While there are certainly bits where the Shaffer team should have cleaved more closely to Ritual--Hanlin is far more a nuanced character than Neil Howie's paragon of Christian goodness, for example--Pinner is simply not as good a writer as Shaffer. The prose is oft times as purple as the book's cover, and for a rural town, everyone in it feels so... urbane. This is not necessarily a bad thing--if this town existed in the real world, it would be tops on my list of places to move--but it does require a great deal of suspension of disbelief. Also, there are a few places where Pinner seems to let one fact or another of one of his subplots et beyond his control. Never for a long time, and never enough to entirely derail the book, but enough to jar.
If you're a Wicker Man fan (and isn't everyone?), this is essential reading. On the other hand, if the movie's not your cup of tea, this isn't one to go seeking out. ** ½
After waiting awhile for this to return to print, I was glad to finally snatch it up. While I wasn't expecting it to be exactly like The Wicker Man, I did hope for an engaging story and a rich selection of characters. The dialogue, however, seemed to get in the way of everything - even in the way of the storytelling - and became a huge distraction. I also found myself not much caring who did it or why.
Readable, but oddly written, uneven in tone. I recently saw "The Wicker Man," a film very loosely based on this novel, & wanted to read the source material. I'm about halfway through & find that I just keep abandoning it for other books. Perhaps because I know the ending, but really, the writing is airy-fairy, sometimes eloquent about the scenery, but lots of telling instead of showing characterization.
It is really amazing that two movies were made from this book. It is abyssmally bad. The author is not really a writer but an actor, I researched, and his capability of using the English language is definitely very limited. Especially metaphors are not his thing. Want an example?
"Blackberries and strawberries uncoiled under his feet like electric springs." (Loc. 497 in the Edition) Can anyone explain what that is supposed to mean? "Electric springs"? "Blackberries under his feet?" As if they didn't grow in huge thorny hedges!
Example number two "The butterfly fluttered onto her left breast. It sensed the pulse of her tired nipple." (Loc 598) Wow, what a sensitive butterfly, and how does the narrator know about its sensations?
I don't think I'll read on. The time for return for refund has passed but it wasn't expensive anyway, but it's rubbish.
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