Talk:Nelson DeMille

End of book discussion in beginning synopsis - spoilers?

I feel, that talking about his writing style in regards to his endings is fine.

However, mentioning a specific book (Night Fall in this example) and giving some clues about the ending is a spoiler in a sense. At least some sort of warning should be given. I'm in the middle of actually reading this book, and saw that note, which irked me.

Tone

The statement about DeMille's attitude toward Christians is worded poorly. It sounds unencyclopedic. I'm going to edit it if nobody else does. Jiggz84 04:16, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Having read the book in question I think that having evangelical christians as the villians would have made more sense - I think that he may have taken that element out at a late point. It seems to me that, if the comment can be researched correctly, it deserves inclusion in the entry for the book itself (since it impacted the books content) rather than on the author's page. Either way I agree that having this in the entry appears very 'unencyclopedic' and the entry clearly implies that any anti-christian thought is a "curious state of mind" - obviously more opinion than anything else. --Ericpol 20:21, 19 April 2007 (UTC)

I have removed the section in question--Ericpol 19:57, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

The General's Daughter

I removed the link from the book title. The link takes you to the movie page, as there is no page for the book. And there is already a movie link included in the list. Itsmeiam 17:38, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

editorializing/extrapolating/opinion

I removed the following:

"Another characteristic of the most recent novels is the recurrence of the main character, John Corey. Here, under the secure cover of a more renegade Corey, there exists the creative license to develop more of an entertaining sarcasm and wise guy wit. Through this character, the author serves up a more rough around the edges, non-politically correct fare.

Fictional themes, people and places in general can often have a germinated basis in reality. Some have speculated whether John Corey's persona could be one of the author's alter egos."

This smacks of, for example, a journalist who doesn't like a policy stating "many people have expressed serious reservations about the Senator's plan, stating that it could destroy democracy as we know it" with no attribution, only "some" or "many people". It's a way to inject opinion.

It is also a big stretch to look at someone's fictional character and then simplistically draw the character's attributes onto the author. It's an even bigger stretch to take character attributes and apply them not as characteristics of the author, but of what the author WISHED he could be.

No offense to the original author- what you say certainly could be true, but I'd like to see some attribution, such as a response from DeMille in an interview. 64.94.189.211 (talk) 20:17, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Orwell and 1984 References

I recall commenting to several people how DeMille typically makes at least one reference to Orwell / 1984 in his books, and I was waiting for yet another reference in The Gate House (which I am currently reading), and I came across it last night! So this is what prompted me to add it to Wikipedia. I just added a citation for this, referencing The Gate House (pg. 224). I'm sorry I cannot provide additional citations for this since I am currently on vacation and don't have my other books to hand. I will do this when I get back home.WhiteOak2006 (talk) 02:23, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

The Lion

Does anyone know if his upcoming book "The Lion" is going to finish the story that the 1000+ page "The Lion's Game" left completely unresolved? WesUGAdawg (talk) 23:43, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

I see that the article has been updated to answer my question. So the two people who updated are both correct in that it would be a direct sequel to "Wild Fire" in the John Corey series but is likely to include a good deal of the plot/ character elements from "The Lion's Game", thus making it an indirect sequel via "Night Fall" and then "Wild Fire." I suppose in the article it should say it is a sequel to Wild Fire but continues the "Lion's Game" storyline. WesUGAdawg (talk) 02:02, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Burov and Boris Connection

The article for Demille states that he hints Colonel Burov from the Charm School is the same character as Boris from Lion's Game and now the Lion. I didn't pick up on this hinting so was wondering if whoever wrote that or anyone else could clarify it. If it is true, I was expecting that it would be made more obvious in The Lion. However, again, I didn't pick up on any connections in this new book. It does state Boris last name and it is something like Kurasokov. It also states that after the CIA and Boris agreed to their deal, he wanted to keep his Russian name instead of starting new. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.60.156.36 (talk) 02:38, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Parents?

It seems a glaring omission his parents aren't mentioned. 68.205.56.144 (talk) 03:33, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

...especially as we're wondering whether he might be descended from Cecil B. DeMille. Valetude (talk) 01:06, 6 September 2022 (UTC)