05-13-2011, 10:12 AM
I'm currently reading The Exorcist, the novel by William Peter Blatty on which he based his Oscar-winning screenplay for the film of the same name. I half expected it to be trashy schlock, something Blatty knocked off before going to work on the script as a way of making more money, but I've just finished the prologue and so far it's gorgeously written. The scenes with Father Merrin in Northern Iraq are as compelling as they were in the film.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe