Word: prequel
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...inspirational Christmas story he originally published himself, is sitting at or near the top of the nation's best-seller lists, with more than 2 million copies in print. A TV-movie version starring Maureen O'Hara and Richard Thomas will air Sunday on CBS. And a prequel will arrive in bookstores in time for Easter and Mother...
...Dead Man's Walk were not a prequel, it would be worth only glancing notice. As things are, it is a satisfactory foothill, with the grand old mountain in view. There are no heroics, though there is plenty of calamity. Call and McCrae, too young and foolish to know better, short on everything except energy and ignorance, have joined a ragtag outfit called the Rangers, less a military force than a band of hungry looters, commanded by a puffing, self-anointed general. This faker has heard about Santa Fe, then a Mexican settlement, but does not know where...
Which sets the reader to musing: by rough calculation, there are about three decades of imprudence and dusty commotion to get through before they become the leathery, intermittently shrewd men of Lonesome Dove. The prequel hasn't really completed its job. Obviously a postprequel or two is required before the central novel can decently begin. Buffalo Hump still lurks. McCrae seems about to marry, though surely not if the sly heartbreaker in the general store is thinking clearly. And the great-grandlitters of pigs not yet born and rattlers not yet hatched must colonize the town of Lonesome Dove...
...town he helped make a prime-time legend, his ex-partner is still living there, with all the warped ingenuousness of a rural kid who tells his friends, "Let's put the freak show on right here! Again!" TWIN PEAKS FIRE WALK WITH ME, Lynch's way-too-late prequel to the 1990 TV series, relates the last days of teen queen Laura Palmer (Sheryl Lee). After an agonizing first half-hour designed to empty the theater, Lynch unleashes his patented perfervid style, puts the familiar dwarfs and feebs on display and elicits a nicely horrifying turn from...
...this politically correct prequel, Hawkeye displays the Eurocentric tendencies to hunt and waste. Local Native Americans lecture him on ageism, gender bias, affirmative action and ecological consciousness until he has a nervous collapse, jettisons his rifle and opens a frontier health-food store...