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Dara Horn's second novel, The World to Come, has as its protagonist, of all things, a TV quiz show writer who becomes an art thief. The Wall Street Journal's review (http://\"http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113779730996952406.html?mod=at_leisure_main_editors_picks_days_only\") is at a paid-subscribers-only link, but here's the first paragraph and first sentence of the second paragraph:
Ben Ziskind is a 39-year-old nerd, a former child prodigy grappling with the bad news that "there is no such thing as an adult prodigy." Coming out of an 11-month marriage, dumped by a wife he now realizes he never knew, he makes his living thinking up questions for a TV quiz show.
For all his troubles, one has to wonder what in the world impels this mild-mannered young man to steal a Chagall painting from a museum.
The Washington Post's review (which, IIRC, requires registration but not payment) is here (http://\"http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/19/AR2006011902693.html\").
Clearly game shows aren't the theme of the novel but I thought it interesting enough to share nonetheless.
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[quote name=\'dzinkin\' date=\'Jan 22 2006, 02:48 PM\']Clearly game shows aren't the theme of the novel but I thought it interesting enough to share nonetheless.
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Gee thanks, Henke!
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[quote name=\'fostergray82\' date=\'Jan 22 2006, 03:10 PM\']Gee thanks, Henke!
;-) j/k don't cut off my accou.........
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I'd ban you but the link to that part of the board is too long for me to type. ;-)
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Ben Ziskind is a 39-year-old nerd, a former child prodigy grappling with the bad news that "there is no such thing as an adult prodigy." Coming out of an 11-month marriage, dumped by a wife he now realizes he never knew, he makes his living thinking up questions for a TV quiz show.
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Rachel Riskind, a mutual friend of George Gray and I, during the run of "Weakest Link", once introduced me to someone who asked a lot of questions, wanting to know about TV game shows for a book they were writing. Hmmmm.
Randy
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