rec.games.go

Re: A Stone for Danny Fisher


"Taylor Kingston" <ttk5079_at_gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag 
news:87459bc1-deb9-4a67-811c-bcf55728e0a4_at_r6g2000yqr.googlegroups.com...
> On Dec 13, 5:07 pm, samsloan <samhsl..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 13, 3:27 pm, Taylor Kingston <ttk5..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > On Dec 13, 10:31 am, samsloan <samhsl..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > > "A Stone for Danny Fischer" is about when Bobby Fischer's brother
>>
>> > /The/ Bobby Fischer, Sam? The one who won the chess world
>> > championship in 1972? If that's who you mean, then please explain how
>> > Harold Robbins knew about RJF in 1952, when Bobby was only nine and
>> > not yet at all famous, and chose to set the novel in the 1920s and
>> > 1930s, before RJF was ever born.
>>
>> > > Danny decided to take up the game of go. As he was not yet very good,
>> > > they had to give him a stone handicap or, in other words, the first
>> > > move.
>>
>> > > It was made into a movie starring, naturally, Elvis Presley, who sung
>> > > nine songs, all about go and his love for the game and thus the song
>> > > "Loving You".
>>
>> > The film in question is "Kid Creole." Maybe I missed it, but I don't
>> > recall anything about the game of go in it. And as you can see here:
>>
>> >http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051818/soundtrack
>>
>> > the song "Loving You" is not in that film.
>>
>> You are right. My mistake. Sorry.
>>
>> "Loving you" is not in this movie. Rather, "Lover Doll" is in this
>> movie.
>>
>> We cannot see imdb.com over here in China. That adds to the list of
>> things we cannot see. We cannot see blogspot or youtube or facebook
>> over here.
>
> Apparently you can't see the absurdity of your own description of
> the book and film, either.
Sloan is just a "publisher" not a reader.
You seem to think he should actually read the books he xeroxes.





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