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That is absolutely going to happen. The depth and nuance on this show. Soon, it’ll be listed here for great minds to ponder:
https://www.amazon.com/Popular-Culture-and-Philosophy-125-book-series/dp/B0897GS1YK
Hi, I've just written and published a non-fiction book which is a guide to UK crime fiction. It's called 'The Crime Fiction Tour of Britain'. It's not a literary criticism type book, more a case of if you like the genre here's lots of books and series to try, arranged both geographically by region and chronologically by era in the case of historical crime fiction. More than 100 authors featured.
Price - FREE until Saturday 16th Oct, after which it will be 99p for a while.
If you are a newbie and a fan of stuff, there's a series called "Pop Culture and Philosophy" that starts with some pretty famous properties and discusses some ideas related to those.
> Are there stories where a traditionally good protagonist would a good idea
the Jack Reacher novels by Lee Child.
Child created Reacher in direct contrast with the prevailing trends in series characters for mysteries and crime, as a way to make the character stand out. Rather than being a dark recovering alcoholic avenging the murder of his child (all-too-typical mystery protagonist), Reacher deliberately hearkens back to the concept of a chivalrous knight errant, wandering the land looking to help people, fight evil, and right wrongs. See Child's essay in this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Lineup-Worlds-Greatest-Writers-Detectives/dp/0316031933
Dean Koontz has also done something similar, got tired of writing anti-heroes and turned to classical virtues of bravery and heroism.
https://www.amazon.it/Conned-Again-Watson-Cautionary-Probability/dp/0738205893
in this book in one chapter they discuss some fair techniques to divide land with mixed values distributed among it.
if you need to distribute a circle of land among 2 people you have one person split it into two as he wishes and the second person chooses first what part to take.
if you have three people you have two people dividing it and the third picking first and so on
For all of those saying "You still won't be able to use him as a character because of Trademark laws" ... the law doesn't work that way.
If it were, the Doyle estate would have simply trademarked Sherlock Holmes and so ensured all the TV and film adaptations were still under their control.
But they didn't. Or, to be more accurate, despite their continual attempts they didn't succeed in doing it.
Why not?
It turns that using trademarks to extend copyright has been pretty roundly rejected by the courts. To quote Justice Scalia:
>To hold otherwise would be akin to finding that [trademark law] created a species of perpetual patent and copyright, which Congress may not do.
The case everyone quotes is Dastar Corp. v. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp..
But if you don't want to read tedious cases ... just ask yourself - 'Why didn't it work with Sherlock Holmes'?
-- Mac
(Who is still waiting for Ms Holmes of Baker Street to be adapted)
Silence of the Lambs (or Red Dragon, Hannibal)
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (somebody already wrote a book about it)
A Beautiful Mind
I'm really trying to think of one that isn't a movie...