![]() ![]() “Well, as long as it’s not Danielle Steele, that’s fine.” “I must tell you, Ron, that this book is unlike your Louis l’Amour.” “That sounds fine and I’ll look forward to reading it,” you answer in return. “I will send you this book,” Gorbachev tells you over the phone. ![]() It is this birthmarked man, Mikhail Gorbachev, apparently a big reader, who suggests you might enjoy reading something other than Louis l’Amour and that there are several American authors he himself reads with regularity, one of whom has penned a new Western. But those are also constraints on the writer the story has to fit public perception, while offering something unexpected. ![]() It’s true that you get most of the character for free, and in this case, setting comes along with it, at least for those of us whose memories go back to the 80s (and we can all be depressed for a moment when we realize not everyone’s does). I would imagine that constructing a fictional story around a well-known real-life personage must be tricky, and the more well-known the personage, the trickier. But be forewarned: fans of Ronald Reagan might not think so. Try having a discussion where the future of the world teeters on the knife-edge of nuclear destruction with a man who has your wife’s vagina emblazoned on his forehead. The notion that there is something wrong with the new ruler of the Evil Empire does not take very long to sink in.… Then this new man with the disturbing birthmark that was like a cloud, seeming to take on the shape of whatever might be on the viewer’s mind. ![]()
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