Which First Draft would you want?
Seeing as how Chuck's first draft of Fight Club is on the auction block, I thought I would ask which novel you would like to have the first draft of?
I would say Kerouac's On the Road - that rolled up manuscript. I guess that's not really the first draft - or maybe the only draft?!!
I think some guy who owns a football team in the south bought it within the last few years for something like 1 or 2 million. I heard that he was going to set up a tour so people could see it.
I also heard Francis Ford Coppola is getting ready to start filming the movie version of On the Road. I'm wondering if they are going to make a little cross promotion.
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[I]Invisible Monsters[/I].
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The Bible.
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[I]Fear and loathing in Las Vegas[/I]
or maybe [I]Old man and the Sea[/I], one of the very first books I remember reading.
What?
There's something I realized not too long ago. A book is just a book. Having a first edition would just mean that I couldn't read it, it would just sit on my bookshelf. That's not really how I like to enjoy my books.
That being said, I'd give my left nut for a first edition Grapes of Wrath or Of Mice and Men.
American Tabloid. With the research pages.
[QUOTE=Rents]There's something I realized not too long ago. A book is just a book. Having a first edition would just mean that I couldn't read it, it would just sit on my bookshelf. That's not really how I like to enjoy my books.
That being said, I'd give my left nut for a first edition Grapes of Wrath or Of Mice and Men.[/QUOTE]
Yes, but no. I agree with you - having something nice is just having something that collects dust. Your things end up owning you.
But, what I am talking about is the first draft of something, not the first edition. I would love to see what Chuck and the editors wrote in the margins. Or, what Kerouac wrote in the margins or crossed out or ???
Why didn't Chuck make a book of the first draft?? Talking about a great teaching tool. How cool would that be to look through and see what made the cut and what didn't.
I wanted to say the Bible, but now someone else has, so I'd say James Joyce's Ulisees (sp??). Not that I'd read it, but I'd get LOADS of money for it...
And for reading, I'd like to see The Catcher in teh Ryl, or any other Salinger book really.
[QUOTE=G Scott]Yes, but no. I agree with you - having something nice is just having something that collects dust. Your things end up owning you.
But, what I am talking about is the first draft of something, not the first edition. I would love to see what Chuck and the editors wrote in the margins. Or, what Kerouac wrote in the margins or crossed out or ???
Why didn't Chuck make a book of the first draft?? Talking about a great teaching tool. How cool would that be to look through and see what made the cut and what didn't.[/QUOTE]
Mhm. Well, this being the case, I'd like to amend my previous statement and say that I'd give my left nut for 100 Years of Solitude (Marquez) or The Things They Carried (Obrien).
I was going to say either Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas or On the Road, but those have already been mentioned.
So, I like to see the first draft of Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey. I think that that book would have a lot of notes all over it where things didn't add up or things needed to be changed. It is written in such a weird format - I'm sure he didn't get it right the first time.
I would love a first draft of "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". If there ever was a first draft, I wonder what it would look like? also, I would do just about anything to see the first draft of "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole.
Tropic of Cancer...Henry Miller.
[B]We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody dropped the girl off the bridge.[/B]--[I]Darker Than Amber[/I], John D. McDonald (Best opening sentence ever.)
Walden-Henry David Thoreau. I've always loved this book. This and emerson's essay collections are the only ones I constantly re-read. I've looked online for first editions and they are ridiculously priced. One day I'll be able to buy it . . . hopefully.
I'd take the Koran and the Bible and burn them and see if maybe we could avoid some of the resulting unpleasantness.
I was here. Then I wasn't. Then I was again.
[QUOTE=Parkaboy]I'd take the Koran and the Bible and burn them and see if maybe we could avoid some of the resulting unpleasantness.[/QUOTE]
Yea, but then we'd be having a war between the worshippers of Ra, Zeus, and Loki. Religion finds a way to come back.
As for what book, I would want Franzen's The Corrections to see how he changed his word choices and structure to craft what has to be the most beautiful thing I've ever read.
[QUOTE=dim71886]Yea, but then we'd be having a war between the worshippers of Ra, Zeus, and Loki. Religion finds a way to come back.
As for what book, I would want Franzen's The Corrections to see how he changed his word choices and structure to craft what has to be the most beautiful thing I've ever read.[/QUOTE]
god would have someone rewrite it.
I'd love to have the first draft of Mark Danielewski's "House of Leaves". How fucked up would that be?
I'd love to get my hands on Robert Lewis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde. The philosophy behind that book is so amazing. It was nothing like I'd imagined. So dark and so intricate.
If I were a celebrity with loads of cash I'd buy the Fight Club manuscript so damn fast. That would just rock.
after careful consideration, i've decided i'd love to get my hands on a first draft of any of tom robbins novels. they say he rarely edits his work, and i want to see if this is just an urban legend.
farewell to arms, definatly. I would worship it.
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