John Fante's Ask the Dust is Awesome
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My only criticism of the novel is that Fante/Bandini seems to treat Camilla's Marijuana habit as if it was Heroin addiction,I suppose a common assumption for the times,but one that hardly impedes enjoyment of this absolute treasure of a novel.
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I think the 'uploader' needs to read the book again,and pay attention to the fact that Bandini can hardly have been living in the L.A of the '50's when the book was actually first published in 1939.
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(continued) The biography is called Full of Life by Stephen Cooper and the short story collection is called The Big Hunger. Yeah, the movie sucked, especially how they changed the ending to the typical Hollywood ending.
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Yes, definitely a great read by one of my favorite authors. Funny thing, when I was in college, my English department advisor would tell me about working/meeting Fante's wife because he was working on a biography about Fante. He would tell me all these stories about finding tons of unpublished short stories that he left behind. So years later, out of college and whatever, I'm at the book store and come across not only the biography, but also a collection of "new" stories.
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It's very good...they tried with the movie...probably not something that can be translated into film
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The movie is lame. I was really mad when I watched it. The character is nothing like Arturo! He's supposed to be passionnate, and wild and scared, with a huge lack of confidence, all in once. Really hard to play. The actor was just static and annoying.
But I agree with you, this is one of the best books in the world, and the best by John Fante. God bless anything done by Kerouac, Bukowski, Ginsberg, Fante, etc.
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"In the '50s"? In the '50s, wanna-be literary characters tried to smoke cigarettes.
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beat generation!
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He doesn't push her head in the sand for no reason. It was in retaliation.
There are four novels with A. Bandini, not two.
It wasn't set or written in the '50s, I don't know why you keep saying that.
This video is terrible. Stop trying to sound smart, you look like a typical pseudo-intellect who doesn't know his ass from his elbow, and certainly doesn't know his Fante.
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In my opinion: i like most Bukowski books, but Fante is one of my favorites. I like the way you make the explacation about the ask the dusy novel.
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Great book. I have read it numerous times. John Fante was an amazing writer!
Have you read anything by his son, Dan Fante?
Mindfuckedproject 2 years ago
i haven't read anything by don fante. i wasn't aware john fante was also a published author. why did you tell me to check this video? is there an error in it? thanks for the comment.
rickyshore 2 years ago