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FEATURES The Çlàckamas Print Wednesday, October 11,1995 Local author reaches for the sky with new book Brendon Neal Opinion Editor The Sky Fisherman by Craig Lesley is a book that is great throughout but leaves you with many questions unanswered. Lesley is a lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest; he was born in the Dalles. He is an in structor in the English Depart ment here at CCC, currently on sabbatical leave. He lives in Port land, Oregon yvith two daughters and his wife. His M.A. in En glish comes from the University of Kansas, and he received an M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He enjoys the outdoors and spent eight years with the Deschutes River Guide Service in Oregon. Sky Fisherman is a combi nation of humor, drama and ad venture in the outdoors. It is set in Central Oregon near what is now the Kah-nee-ta Resort. The main character in Cul ver. He is a teen-ager who is just finding out who he is and what secrets his family keeps hidden. As the story begins Culver and his mother run away from his stepfather who is a railroad worker, whose job is going down hill and causes them to move from one railroad siding after another, each one being worse than the previous. They move into Gateway near his uncle’s home. His uncle Jake basically adopts Culver. Culver’s father died in a boating accident while rafting down a flooded river with Jake. Culver learns more about his father, Jake and their friends as the book goes on providing the backbone to the story. Much of the book takes place in Jake’s store or on the river. Jake runs an outdoor store as well as guiding fishermen on the Lost River. Overlying the story is the problems between whites and In dians. The nearby reservation is improving, but there is still a feel ing of inequality between the two races. Murder and arson add to the story, but play an unusual role as the background rather than the main theme. The burning down of a mill causes the Indians to have a chance to build their own, giving them seniority and caus ing white workers to loose their jobs and face lower wages or un employment. The mill fire along with the mysterious deaths by fire of two whites is really never explained in the story. The hints give sug gestions but leave the reader won dering. The title of the book comes from the constellations. Culver’s grandfather described to his father and uncle various constellations as he saw them, all of which were ‘SE7EN’ is a hit with its suspenseful terror! Lora Wahrgren Staff Writer “Seven” has a recipe for ter ror. It’s a dark, sad, suspenseful movie. It really makes you think about life,death and the things we experience daily. Brad Pitt plays defective Mills, a rookie to the fast-paced city life, but not to working Ho micide. Pitt’s experience is no match for the veteran detective Sommerset, played by Morgan Freeman. Sommerset tries to guide Mills through all of the con-, fusing brutal homicides that are taking place day after day. The movie’s plot has great flow and never stops being sus penseful. I felt out of breath at the end of the movie. It was every bit horrifying and more than I had expected. As the movie pro gressed and the climax came to a raging end, I had realized that the killers reasoning made some sense in a twisted psychotic way. There was a lot that had to be said to explain sin and mankind and punishment. I don’t think it mat ters if you agree with him or not, but if you left the theater with a question in your head, it says a lot about the impact of the movie. The seven deadly sins are: GLUTTONY- the act of eating too much; ENVY- ill will over another’s advantages, posses sions, etc.; WRATH- intense an ger, rage, fury, any action of ven geance; GREED- excessive de sire, especially for wealth - ava- rice; SLOTH-disinclination to work or exert oneself - laziness; PRIDE-an over high opinion of oneself and LUST-bodily appetite - especially excessive sexual de sire. These were the seven sins from which the movie got its name. “Seven” is more intense than “Pulp Fiction,” more psychotic than “Natural Born Killers” and more disturbing than “Silence of the Lambs.” It took a combina tion of all of these great movies to create this awesome array of sight and sound. I definetly got a lot more out of the movie than just droolling over Brad Pitt’s new hair cut. I got a lot to think about. I also had a chance to hear Nine Inch Nails opening in the beginning of the movie. It was great because it set up the psycho thrilling theme. The movie is rated “R” for vio lence, nudity, and language, which I felt is very appropriate. Even if you don’t like the sight of dead, stinky, rotting bodies it doesn’t matter because Brad Pitt is worth watching all of that for. Pitt and Freeman’s relationship even has a humorous side to it that makes up for the darkness throughout the movie. Being scared $#!*less makes it all worth while. The movie was written by Andrew Kevin Malker and di rected by David Fincher. It is play ing at most movie theaters, you can find the times in the Orego nian. related to the outdoors: The Sky Fisherman, Chinook Salmon, the Leaky Boat, etc. Jake shows Cul ver these constellations on their first overnight boating trip to gether. While I am not normally a reader of straight fiction, prefer ring science-fi and fantasy, I found this book interesting, en tertaining and engrossing. The characters are well developed. Also, they and their lives are gen eral so that we can all relate to them. 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