Peyton Place
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What do you think of the re-release of "Peyton Place?"
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Sep 30, 2012 07:05AM
I am very excited about the re-release of "Peyton Place" it was a ground-breaking book that many novels of marriage and relationships have been based. I would like to see how it compares to the critically-acclaimed novel "The Marriage Plot" by Jeffrey Euginides, and also that of the "Fifty Shades" series, amoung others.
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Intereseting read for me. Hypocrisy rooted in a small New England community.
My favorite character is Dr Mathew Swain. Least favorite is Allison MacKenzie's mother; her mother did not seem to learn any positive life lessons regarding honesty and being true to one's self.
How horrible a torturous situation for Selena Cross! And Dr Swain's "justification" for setting her free of her step-father's crime.
It is weird to think that back in the 1950s, the publishing industry forced the author to rewrite the book to change Selena Cross's father to step-father. White-washing the truth, I suppose, because the author based many of the characters (and story line) on a real New England town (NH).
Getting ready to read "Return to Peyton Place" via Kindle application (on my PC and BlackBerry).
My favorite character is Dr Mathew Swain. Least favorite is Allison MacKenzie's mother; her mother did not seem to learn any positive life lessons regarding honesty and being true to one's self.
How horrible a torturous situation for Selena Cross! And Dr Swain's "justification" for setting her free of her step-father's crime.
It is weird to think that back in the 1950s, the publishing industry forced the author to rewrite the book to change Selena Cross's father to step-father. White-washing the truth, I suppose, because the author based many of the characters (and story line) on a real New England town (NH).
Getting ready to read "Return to Peyton Place" via Kindle application (on my PC and BlackBerry).
I'd read a review that compared "Peyton Place" to "To Kill a Mockingbird" in terms of being about small-town hypocrisy, and that's a connection I hadn't made - probably because PP is often thought of in less-reverential terms than TKaM. At any rate, I hadn't read this one since I was about 12 or so, and I wonder if I should reread it or leave it as a fond memory.
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