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RIP William Hjortsberg

#1 Post by silverscreenselect » Wed Apr 26, 2017 2:04 pm

Author best known for his fantasy and science fiction novels, including Falling Angel, which was made into the movie Angel Heart with Robert de Niro, as well as the screenwriter of Legend, one of Tom Cruise's lesser efforts. This one is a couple of days old but I just heard about it.

Age 76

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#2 Post by Bob78164 » Wed Apr 26, 2017 2:08 pm

silverscreenselect wrote:Author best known for his fantasy and science fiction novels, including Falling Angel, which was made into the movie Angel Heart with Robert de Niro, as well as the screenwriter of Legend, one of Tom Cruise's lesser efforts. This one is a couple of days old but I just heard about it.

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#3 Post by silverscreenselect » Wed Apr 26, 2017 2:33 pm

No, he wrote under his own name. Falling Angel is a terrific thriller with a great twist ending (which, if you've seen the movie, you know what the twist is, but I didn't know it when I read the book). When Open Road Books had their big giveaway last Christmas, I picked up about 500 books including a couple of his titles (not Falling Angel which wasn't part of the giveaway). I'll have to move one of them up my list now.
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#4 Post by mrkelley23 » Wed Apr 26, 2017 8:33 pm

Bob78164 wrote:
silverscreenselect wrote:Author best known for his fantasy and science fiction novels, including Falling Angel, which was made into the movie Angel Heart with Robert de Niro, as well as the screenwriter of Legend, one of Tom Cruise's lesser efforts. This one is a couple of days old but I just heard about it.

Age 76

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I've literally never heard of him. Did he write under a pseudonym? --Bob
Wow. How often in the 21st century is the word "literally" used in its original denotation? Was that purposeful?
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#5 Post by Bob78164 » Thu Apr 27, 2017 12:18 am

mrkelley23 wrote:
Bob78164 wrote:
silverscreenselect wrote:Author best known for his fantasy and science fiction novels, including Falling Angel, which was made into the movie Angel Heart with Robert de Niro, as well as the screenwriter of Legend, one of Tom Cruise's lesser efforts. This one is a couple of days old but I just heard about it.

Age 76

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I've literally never heard of him. Did he write under a pseudonym? --Bob
Wow. How often in the 21st century is the word "literally" used in its original denotation? Was that purposeful?
No. I was using it for emphasis. --Bob
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#6 Post by Pastor Fireball » Thu Apr 27, 2017 9:52 am

mrkelley23 wrote:
Bob78164 wrote:I've literally never heard of him. Did he write under a pseudonym? --Bob
Wow. How often in the 21st century is the word "literally" used in its original denotation? Was that purposeful?
I literally agree that "literally" is literally being overused. :P
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#7 Post by mrkelley23 » Thu Apr 27, 2017 11:06 am

Pastor Fireball wrote:
mrkelley23 wrote:
Bob78164 wrote:I've literally never heard of him. Did he write under a pseudonym? --Bob
Wow. How often in the 21st century is the word "literally" used in its original denotation? Was that purposeful?
I literally agree that "literally" is literally being overused. :P
I was going to say "used correctly" in my post, but I think that linguistic ship has sailed.
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#8 Post by Estonut » Thu Apr 27, 2017 11:54 am

mrkelley23 wrote:I was going to say "used correctly" in my post, but I think that linguistic ship has sailed.
Figuratively...
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