{"id":667,"date":"2004-09-16T15:44:43","date_gmt":"2004-09-16T20:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinepage.com\/wp\/2004\/09\/16\/tourist-or-traveler-who-cares-make-them-american\/"},"modified":"2004-09-16T15:44:43","modified_gmt":"2004-09-16T20:44:43","slug":"tourist-or-traveler-who-cares-make-them-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/16\/tourist-or-traveler-who-cares-make-them-american\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist or traveler? Who cares? Make them American."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years after everybody else &#8211; or so it seems &#8211; I&rsquo;ve finally read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1573226521\/qid=1095364209\/sr=ka-1\/ref=pd_ka_1\/103-9101430-1267003\">The Beach<\/a>. Really enjoyed it. Got a little impatient with it in the middle, but couldn&rsquo;t put it down towards the end. <\/p>\n<p>And yes, it did have s-c-r-e-e-n-p-l-a-y written all over it. I love observing the adaptation process (and I&rsquo;m starting to adapt a novel into a screenplay), so I&rsquo;m planning on watching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebeachmovie.com\/\">the movie<\/a> as soon as possible, even though if I trust the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0163978\/board\/nest\/5109355\">reviews<\/a>, it sounds like I&rsquo;ll be disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>Reading up on what the british author has been up to since he wrote The Beach, I found this <a href=\"http:\/\/observer.guardian.co.uk\/review\/story\/0,6903,1248127,00.html\">article<\/a> . This passage made me cringe:<\/p>\n<p>&laquo; Publishers, predictably, have been more reluctant to let the bestseller go. Garland recalls how, after he wrote his second novel, The Tesseract, a far more complex and demanding narrative set in Manila, he was sat down by an editor in America who said: &laquo; Look, Alex, your strength is young people, backpackers in search of Utopia. Get back to that. And this time, can you make the young people Americans? &raquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years after everybody else &#8211; or so it seems &#8211; I&rsquo;ve finally read The Beach. Really enjoyed it. Got a little impatient with it in the middle, but couldn&rsquo;t put it down towards the end. And yes, it did have s-c-r-e-e-n-p-l-a-y written all over it. I love observing the adaptation process (and I&rsquo;m starting to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/16\/tourist-or-traveler-who-cares-make-them-american\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tourist or traveler? Who cares? Make them American.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}