tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post5098871990695207222..comments2024-03-22T19:13:05.266-04:00Comments on The Dusty Bookcase: The Trudeau Papers: Bang!Brian Busbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-12141917390044991012017-01-14T14:06:59.453-05:002017-01-14T14:06:59.453-05:00Agreed. Whenever I've searched for the Canadia...Agreed. Whenever I've searched for the Canadian novels you list I usually find several owning libraries listed in Worldcat.Gerard Saylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00289822422163685990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-70111229660364730502017-01-13T19:37:36.400-05:002017-01-13T19:37:36.400-05:00Thank you, Todd - not only for the comment but for...Thank you, Todd - not only for the comment but for alerting me to the fact that yours and others were going missing.<br /><br />Even now I think <i>The Trudeau Papers</i> would make great television. Actually, I think it would make even better TV today. Canadian production values are better (or can be) and Shatner is too old to play the lead. That said, I always like seeing Plummer playing PMs.Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-82345779760334970742017-01-13T19:21:47.428-05:002017-01-13T19:21:47.428-05:00I'm with you that Trump will make major mistak...I'm with you that Trump will make major mistakes, Ron. The evening of his victory I predicted a President Pence before the term is over. I'll stand by that. Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-77309448640430475692017-01-13T19:18:32.138-05:002017-01-13T19:18:32.138-05:00It's a bad title, Yvette, and I don't thin...It's a bad title, Yvette, and I don't think the passage of time made it so. The explanation provided was just about the least believable thing. This in a novel in which the American President looks to have had the Canadian Prime Minister killed, and the rest of the western world has little to say.Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-65533912802900430252017-01-13T19:13:09.038-05:002017-01-13T19:13:09.038-05:00I'm surprised there are only five; American un...I'm surprised there are only five; American universities often have better collections of Canadian literature than their northern counterparts. Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-479850896973983482017-01-13T19:10:05.738-05:002017-01-13T19:10:05.738-05:00Apologies, Gerald, for reasons unknown comments we...Apologies, Gerald, for reasons unknown comments were being sent directly to my spam folder. <br /><br />Further apologies for expecting disaster from your President-elect. I like to think all will go well, but I don't expect so. To think my wife pegs me as an eternal optimist. Please feel free to take swipes at Trudeau, <i>fis</i>!Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-65443863629422286692017-01-13T19:05:30.964-05:002017-01-13T19:05:30.964-05:00First, an apology that I will be repeating ad infi...First, an apology that I will be repeating <i>ad infinitum</i>: I've only just discovered that for reasons unknown comments were being sent directly to my spam folder. <br /><br />Second, yes, <i>The Trudeau Papers</i> is a crummy title... and for so many reasons. Speaking to a fellow news junkie over Christmas, I asked whether he remembered the book. He was certain he'd read something called <i>The Trudeau Papers</i>, until I told him it was a novel.<br /><br />Why that title? Why that cover? I'm certain that the answer to the second question is best explained by adherence to the bottom line.Brian Busbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04120341319506205062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-57311767199891489002017-01-07T00:58:16.647-05:002017-01-07T00:58:16.647-05:00By gum, one has to wonder why this one wasn't ...By gum, one has to wonder why this one wasn't made into a US telefilm. Surely the sale to CBC or CTV or City would've been immediate! (Still amused by some of the noise about why the series INTELLIGENCE was cancelled...and how it continues to run on US commercial television...if we can stick commercials in it, why are we supposed to care about anything else?)Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-39894726832744552852017-01-06T18:33:12.549-05:002017-01-06T18:33:12.549-05:00Much as I dislike Trump I think he is less likely ...Much as I dislike Trump I think he is less likely to cause a nuclear war than Hilary would have been. But he is likely to commit other major, as yet unknown, mistakes. But in the US system he has less power than some people fear, although more than enough for me to fear the bad times of which Yvette warns. Ron Smythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00575735524072816238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-73338032130532915062017-01-06T12:19:56.122-05:002017-01-06T12:19:56.122-05:00If I read this now, Brian, I would probably be afr...If I read this now, Brian, I would probably be afraid to get out of bed in the mornings. Especially once Trump is sworn in. Yikes. Bad times are coming that's for sure. But I'm trying to read light. :)<br /><br />P.S. Upon first reading the title of your book choice, I thought it was a Trudeau memoir. :)Yvettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08919246184376538331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-11434775450798911412017-01-06T10:37:20.778-05:002017-01-06T10:37:20.778-05:00Addendum: Worldcat lists only five copies total in...Addendum: Worldcat lists only five copies total in all of the U.S. Gerard Saylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00289822422163685990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-70805238517110878462017-01-06T10:36:10.170-05:002017-01-06T10:36:10.170-05:00"How long before the first major fuck-up of t..."How long before the first major fuck-up of the Trump presidency?"<br />It's strange that even though I think Trump is a buffoon, and I fear what he and the new Congress will screw up, I still take umbrage at a critique of the U.S. by someone from another country; even a critique from a neighbor. It's a very odd and uncomfortable feeling that I would want to defend Trump.<br /><br />According to Worldcat there are two copies of this novel in all of Wisconsin. Both of them at university libraries. At 108 pages I'm really tempted to request the book but I have already built up a pile of TBR items at home.Gerard Saylorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00289822422163685990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6747768554703669866.post-29581828756396701022017-01-03T12:32:59.054-05:002017-01-03T12:32:59.054-05:00I wonder what makes a man write a whole novel -- e...I wonder what makes a man write a whole novel -- even a thin one -- and then give it such a shitty title. What's the thought process here? "Lemme see, I've got nukes and spies and coups and invasions... so I'll want some form of the word "paper" in the title. And I want people to know it's in the future, so I won't call the PM "Trudeau"... that's it!" (Inserts sheet into typewriter, types "Trudeau Papers. A THRILLER." Whips paper out of machine and places on top of manuscript. Leans back in chair with hands behind his head, sighs happily. Done. Then finds bottle of Wite Out, removes words "a thriller." Waits for money to pour in.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com