Fiction No More
I know I’m probably one of the few remaining women in the United States who has not yet seen Sex and the City, the movie. I don’t mean to imply that I’m not interested — I watched the show 
like everyone else. I just wasn’t prepared to run out and pay ten bucks to sit in an uncomfortable theater and surround myself with people who actually answer their phones during films (!!). I’ll wait patiently for Netflix to deliver, thank you.
Apparently a book is mentioned in the movie that everyone immediately googled (or g••gl•d, as the un would say) — “Love Letters of Great Men.” A New York Times book blog informs us that this, once fictional, book will now be published. It’s true, the collection of love letters never actually existed, but the film references letters that are real. So publisher Macmillan has decided to create it.
Darwin and Flaubert, Mozart and Twain, Browning and Wilde — “every shade of love is here,” the book site proclaims.
Perhaps this is a marketing ploy. Perhaps women across the world have been searching for this book since the film premiered. But honestly, don’t we have tons of books of letters to read?
4 responses so far
i have yet to see that movie as well. when i was watching “Dark Knight” someone was texting the whole movie. ps. i think my sister is one of those people that answers her phone in the theater. shame on soph.
no, not sophie!!!!
I didn’t watch the show when it was on the air and I have yet to see the movie. I cannot even say what it is about the series that I find so uninspiring. I have promised myself to break down and at least watch the movie seeing as how so many women seem to have such a genuine connection to these characters. Maybe it is where I live or the life I lead but I personally find little to relate to a thirty something new york single woman pursuing career and marriage. I think for me to relate to something as woman I need to see a little bit of myself reflected back at me.
I haven’t seen the movie yet either~ I agree with you & Renee