tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post7099926231195773572..comments2024-03-26T17:48:56.627+00:00Comments on 'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?': Gideon's Day - film reviewMartin Edwardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-61183271443987852382015-01-22T23:34:32.181+00:002015-01-22T23:34:32.181+00:00Moira, Philip, as always I'm grateful for your...Moira, Philip, as always I'm grateful for your comments. Creasey was a remarkable character, and I'd love to see a biography published.Martin Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16082485795280777670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-42037841866236416212015-01-21T02:49:10.994+00:002015-01-21T02:49:10.994+00:00Creasey churned out a staggering amount in a numbe...Creasey churned out a staggering amount in a number of series, far too much to maintain quality. I was a bit staggered to read that he actually 'wrote' in a fashion that owed much to Henry Ford. He had a group of assistants. There would be a number of books underway at any one time. Creasey would write bit and pieces intended for each novel, and the assistants' job was to pick and choose among pages he wrote, fitting them together like jigsaw puzzles. Once coherence was achieved, the book was ready for a gander by the writer, Creasey himself, though in the coded language of publishing he would have been deemed an author rather than a writer, a way of indicating that because someone's name was on the cover, that didn't necessarily mean that he or she wrote the book, or not in the conventional sense. And thus, the quality went up and down like a yo-yo. I recall many, many years ago quite enjoying the best of the Gideon series, written when he started out, but lawdy, there was also such a lot of sheer dross.Philip Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11739418522974972567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7291823984059320518.post-9764114613274669862015-01-20T10:41:07.362+00:002015-01-20T10:41:07.362+00:00Gideon was a big deal when I was a child, but seem...Gideon was a big deal when I was a child, but seems now to be forgotten. We had the books in our house, and I remember watching the TV series, and I know I have seen the film at some time. Dixon of Dock Green was similar in some ways, but entered the language in a way Gideon didn't.Clothes In Bookshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14680610242823846662noreply@blogger.com