Comments on: FORGOTTEN BOOKS #11: FROM THE TERRACE By John O’Hara http://georgekelley.org/forgotten-books-11-from-the-terrace-by-john-ohara/ Mon, 20 May 2013 00:51:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: george http://georgekelley.org/forgotten-books-11-from-the-terrace-by-john-ohara/comment-page-1/#comment-42655 george Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:02:33 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=638#comment-42655 I’m a fan of From the Terrace, too, Ellen. John O’Hara was a prickly guy, but a great writer. I’ve read most of his novels, but I think as good as they are O’Hara was a better short story writer.

]]> By: Ellen http://georgekelley.org/forgotten-books-11-from-the-terrace-by-john-ohara/comment-page-1/#comment-42651 Ellen Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:22:42 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=638#comment-42651 I LOVE From the Terrace. You cannot put it down and it applies to today even though it really gets going in the twenties. It is not just about the power of money, but also of love and how so many of us just do not know what it is. His writing is magnificent. I have read so many of his great books: Appointment in Samarra; Ten North Frederick; Rage to Live. O’Hara is a master and I envy his genius because I love to write and shall never, ever be in his class.

]]> By: george http://georgekelley.org/forgotten-books-11-from-the-terrace-by-john-ohara/comment-page-1/#comment-28750 george Thu, 02 Dec 2010 12:51:44 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=638#comment-28750 Thanks for the correction, Mike.

]]> By: Mike http://georgekelley.org/forgotten-books-11-from-the-terrace-by-john-ohara/comment-page-1/#comment-28745 Mike Thu, 02 Dec 2010 10:44:19 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=638#comment-28745 The main character’s name was not Easton. It was Alfred Eaton.

]]> By: george http://georgekelley.org/forgotten-books-11-from-the-terrace-by-john-ohara/comment-page-1/#comment-444 george Sun, 29 Mar 2009 17:17:51 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=638#comment-444 You won’t be sorry.

]]> By: Jeff Meyerson http://georgekelley.org/forgotten-books-11-from-the-terrace-by-john-ohara/comment-page-1/#comment-442 Jeff Meyerson Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:20:26 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=638#comment-442 OK, ordered it from PaperBackSwap.

]]> By: Jeff Meyerson http://georgekelley.org/forgotten-books-11-from-the-terrace-by-john-ohara/comment-page-1/#comment-440 Jeff Meyerson Sun, 29 Mar 2009 15:02:41 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=638#comment-440 I remember the movie of FROM THE TERRACE with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward – well, I remember seeing it years ago but none of the details – but never read the book. Like David up there I’ve read only APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA among his novels, though I’ve read hundreds of his stories, short and long.

I’ll look out for this one as you make it sound interesting, and of course I have so little to read as it is!

]]> By: george http://georgekelley.org/forgotten-books-11-from-the-terrace-by-john-ohara/comment-page-1/#comment-414 george Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:19:56 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=638#comment-414 All of John O’Hara’s works are worth reading. He was a craftsman. WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE really made McQueen a star.

]]> By: george http://georgekelley.org/forgotten-books-11-from-the-terrace-by-john-ohara/comment-page-1/#comment-413 george Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:17:41 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=638#comment-413 From the Terrace had a lot of sex for a book written at the end of the 1950s. Yet, it’s pretty much a forgotten book in the O’Hara canon.

]]> By: george http://georgekelley.org/forgotten-books-11-from-the-terrace-by-john-ohara/comment-page-1/#comment-412 george Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:14:35 +0000 http://georgekelley.org/?p=638#comment-412 Your father was trying to protect you from those “hot” passages in From the Terrace. Those racy parts were quite daring for 1959.

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