http://vintage-anchor.knopfdoubleday.com/2009/06/22/the-other-by-david-guterson/ Knopf Doubleday Wed, 16 May 2012 19:08:01 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 http://vintage-anchor.knopfdoubleday.com/2009/06/22/the-other-by-david-guterson/comment-page-1/#comment-46527 Phoebe Becktell Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:45:04 +0000 http://knopfdoubleday.com/?p=1799#comment-46527 When I heard Guterson speak after the publication of "Snow Falling on Cedars," he commented that he always starts with a premise, from which everything else follows. In that case it was something like the randomness of nature. Although I have several contenders for the premise underlying "The Other," nothing really fits. If possible,I would like to know what that premise is before our book club discussion on Feb. 5. When I heard Guterson speak after the publication of “Snow Falling on Cedars,” he commented that he always starts with a premise, from which everything else follows. In that case it was something like the randomness of nature. Although I have several contenders for the premise underlying “The Other,” nothing really fits. If possible,I would like to know what that premise is before our book club discussion on Feb. 5.

]]> http://vintage-anchor.knopfdoubleday.com/2009/06/22/the-other-by-david-guterson/comment-page-1/#comment-34981 Gloria Jensen-Sutton Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:52:57 +0000 http://knopfdoubleday.com/?p=1799#comment-34981 I have two examples of hermits in the Northwest woods...a Korean Vet named "Swampy" who lived approximately in Duvall and far-ranging hermit named John Michael who ranged from Burien to Bellingham, specializing in the north and a little east of Seattle. John Michael is your character, John William, to a tee. I wish we might communicate so that i could know if you know of John Michael. The likeness of John William to John Michael is almost uncanny...and my John Michael was very real with more amazing exploits than you can imagine. With whom else could i go to Woodland Park Zoo at 2:30 A.M.? I believe his remaining friends will recognize him in your book--that is how closely the Johns match. I have ranged the nighttime Seattle with John Michael and have seen the meadows behind Issaquah to the marsh south of Bellingham with this notable charcacter, and I would swear that your John is my John. I have two examples of hermits in the Northwest woods…a Korean Vet named “Swampy” who lived approximately in Duvall and far-ranging hermit named John Michael who ranged from Burien to Bellingham, specializing in the north and a little east of Seattle. John Michael is your character, John William, to a tee. I wish we might communicate so that i could know if you know of John Michael. The likeness of John William to John Michael is almost uncanny…and my John Michael was very real with more amazing exploits than you can imagine. With whom else could i go to Woodland Park Zoo at 2:30 A.M.? I believe his remaining friends will recognize him in your book–that is how closely the Johns match. I have ranged the nighttime Seattle with John Michael and have seen the meadows behind Issaquah to the marsh south of Bellingham with this notable charcacter, and I would swear that your John is my John.

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