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Sissy Spacek (born Mary Elizabeth Spacek; December 25, 1949) is an American actress and singer. She won the Best Actress Oscar for her role as country star Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980). She has been nominated a total of six times. She is also known for her role as Carrie White in Brian de Palma's 1976 horror film Carrie, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress.

Spacek is known mainly as a dramatic actress, but also has made comedies. The films that Spacek has starred in have earned more than $700 million worldwide.

This book is your ultimate resource for Sissy Spacek. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about her Early life, Career, Personal life, TV- and Filmography right away: Big Love, Get Low (film), Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People, Four Christmases, Lake City (film), Pictures of Hollis Woods, Hot Rod (film), Gray Matters, An American Haunting, North Country (film), The Ring Two, Nine Lives (2005 film), A Home at the End of the World (film), Tuck Everlasting (2002 film), Last Call (2002 film), Midwives, In the Bedroom, Songs in Ordinary Time, The Straight Story, Blast from the Past (film), Affliction (1997 film), If These Walls Could Talk, Beyond the Call, Streets of Laredo, The Grass Harp (film), A Private Matter, JFK (film), Hard Promises (1991 film), The Long Walk Home, Crimes of the Heart, 'night, Mother (film), Violets Are Blue (film), Marie (film), Terror in the Aisles, The River (1984 film), The Man with Two Brains, Missing (film), Raggedy Man, Heart Beat, Coal Miner's Daughter, Verna: USO Girl, 3 Women, Welcome to L.A., Carrie (1976 film), Katherine (film), Ginger in the Morning, Badlands (film), The Girls of Huntington House, Prime Cut, Trash (film)

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Two Sissy Spacek movies on one DVD. "Ginger in the Morning" from 1973 co-staring Monty Markham and "Katherine" from 1975 co-staring Art Carney & Henry Winkler. ... Read more

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Great movie with over 20 minutes missing!
I remembered seeing this movie as a teenager. Sissy Spacek as an American terrorist. I'm now 45 and seeing it again was a joy after so long, except for realizing a good chunk of the movie is missing! To be fair, I bought this dvd at the 99 cent store of all places. The box says it is $9.95, so if I had paid ten bucks for it, I would have been slightly pissed. But no matter what you pay for a movie, even if it's free, you want the whole thing. Be warned if you buy this only part of it is here. I haven't watched the second movie on the same dvd, Ginger in the Morning, yet, but beware. Otherwise the movie is very good. Almost way ahead of it's time. Sissy Spacek is just a great actress, so you can't go wrong. ... Read more

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Sissy Spacek Is "Carrie"...One More Time...Cassette Edition
This review refers to the Unabridged Audio edition(Cassette) of "Carrie" by Stephen King...

Other than her creator, Stephen King, can you think of anyone better suited to get into the head of Carrie White than Carrie herself? Sissy Spacek(who played Carrie in the film) not only does an excellent job in the part of Carrie, during this chilling read, but makes the transition from character to character, to the reading of the various news articles,journals and books relating to the bizarre events that lead to the horrific and tragic ending for a little town in Maine in the 1970's.

Okay, just in case there is someone out there who has not seen the movie or read the novel, Carrie is a tormented high school girl. Tormented by her deranged mother and her classmates. She has grown up, knowing she has a special, but secret and potentially deadly talent. She is telekinetic. All she has to do is see something in her mind, and "flex" her brain and she can move the objects, lock a door, slow a heart beat. She's used this power on occasion, but hasn't really learned it full capabilities. Her peers are notorious for playing pranks on her. Mean and nasty pranks, always leaving Carrie dehumanized, and humiliated. She would always beat a retreat home when pushed to the edge, but on Prom Night, they went too far. When the pranksters go to great lengths to humiliate her in front of the entire class, Carrie's powers seem to take on on a life of their own.She flexes her will with a vengeance. The results are terrifying and the death toll is high.

Long before "Mean Girls" made their film debut Stephen King had the bad girl type nailed in this electrifying novel.The story is cleverly told in narrative from the different witnesses points of views, official statements and testimonies. King makes the characters seem all too real. The story builds on Carrie's emotions, as with each spiteful event, her anger takes her just a little further to the brink, until finally, well you know what they say about a woman scorned..and one with telekinetic powers has the ultimate fury.

Sissy Spacek's read takes Carrie to each level. The fear and humiliation she feels, and eventually her anger. When she cries out to her mother "Mama, Mama", you know what she is feeling. When she tells her mother, she has a "gift" for her, we know again, what's to come.Giving each character their own personality, you will get to know them very well. She did an excellent job with all of the various players. She makes it a most enjoyable and spine tingling listen.

This story has adult situations and langauge and is not suitable for younger listeners.For those that prefer the CD edition, you will find it by entering the ASIN of 0743536983 into the search.


A great addition to your audio book collection. Take "Carrie" on the road with you and enjoy the read....Laurie


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Carrie CD's Audio Book by Stephen King

I was very happy with the condition of this book and recieved it very fast THANK YOU

the tightest book ever
Well the book i read was by Stephen King one of the greatest authors ever. Well I think this book was most interesting because these things that happened to carrie can really happen. Like being fiscally and verbally abused. Also when he stated the fact that she was sixteen and had her first period in front of everybody, i mean she has already been picked on and laughed at all her life i mean what worse could happen besides getting tampons and napkins and pads thrown at you. Well trust me you will have more to read, and also she found out that she had telekinesis whoa thats another thing coming for you.
But the most part iscan't believe the way her mom treats her. Her mom tries to act like she is the most holiest person in the world, and even when she creates sins her self by abusing her daughter and throwing her in the closet for hours and not giving her food. But when she finds out the cutest boy Tommy wants to take her to the prom she thinks nothing else could go wrong. Well she was wrong about that. She thought since she was with Tommy everyone would want to be her friend. Even though she wasn't the prettiest girl or really skinniest girl she thought every thing could actually be normal for her.
But the day of the prom she actually was the prettiest girl in the room nice red dress her breast all out. Even Tommy didn't believe that it was her when he picked her up. She was a totally different person from when he first asked her to the prom. But the ending a can not tell because it is far to interesting for me to go and ruin it for you so just buy or rent the book and start reading. And trust me all that reading it is worth it.

Carrie...Read By...Carrie
This review refers to the Unabridged Audio edition(CD-Simon and Schuster) of "Carrie" by Stephen King...

Other than her creator, Stephen King, can you think of anyone better suited to get into the head of Carrie White than Carrie herself? Sissy Spacek(who played Carrie in the film) not only does an excellent job in the part of Carrie, during this chilling read, but makes the transition from character to character, to the reading of the various news articles,journals and books relating to the bizarre events that lead to the horrific and tragic ending for a little town in Maine in the 1970's.

Okay, just in case there is someone out there who has not seen the movie or read the novel, Carrie is a tormented high school girl. Tormented by her deranged mother and her classmates. She has grown up, knowing she has a special, but secret and potentially deadly talent. She is telekinetic. All she has to do is see something in her mind, and "flex" her brain and she can move the objects, lock a door, slow a heart beat. She's used this power on occasion, but hasn't really learned it full capabilities. Her peers are notorious for playing pranks on her. Mean and nasty pranks, always leaving Carrie dehumanized, and humiliated. She would always beat a retreat home when pushed to the edge, but on Prom Night, they went too far. When the pranksters go to great lengths to humiliate her in front of the entire class, Carrie's powers seem to take on on a life of their own.She flexes her will with a vengeance. The results are terrifying and the death toll is high.

Long before "Mean Girls" made their film debut Stephen King had the bad girl type nailed in this electrifying novel.The story is cleverly told in narrative from the different witnesses points of views, official statements and testimonies. King makes the characters seem all too real. The story builds on Carrie's emotions, as with each spiteful event, her anger takes her just a little further to the brink, until finally, well you know what they say about a woman scorned..and one with telekinetic powers has the ultimate fury.

Sissy Spacek's read takes Carrie to each level. The fear and humiliation she feels, and eventually her anger. When she cries out to her mother "Mama, Mama", you know what she is feeling. When she tells her mother, she has a "gift" for her, we know again, what's to come.Giving each character their own personality, you will get to know them very well. She did an excellent job with all of the various players. She makes it a most enjoyable and spine tingling listen.

This audio book has 7 discs, nicely packaged.There is an introduction by Stephen King. Each disc runs about an hour give or take a few minutes. The total time is 7.5 hours. There is also an excerpt from "The Shining" at the end. Not much, but just enough to whet you appetite for another thriller. The sound quality is excellent. Clear as a bell.

This story has adult situations and langauge and is not suitable for younger listeners.

also available here:Carrie- check for best deal and availability at time of purchase
cassette edition:Carrie

A great addition to your audio book collection. Take "Carrie" on the road with you and enjoy the read....Laurie

also recommended:
Winter Prey
Les Miserables (Radio Theatre)

Spacek takes Carrie to a new level
Stephen King's first novel Carrie is a classic film of horror.
Sissy Spacek portrayalof Carrie White. Her performancewas
amazing on film, combined with performances by newcomers
William Katt, Nancy Allen, John Travolta, and Amy Irving. This
film is worth buying on DVD.

This brings me to the unabridged audio version of Carrie (7.5 hours, seven CDs, Simon & Schuster Audio). This audio narration isdone by Sissy Spacek. I like Spacek's simple narration. There is a problem with her narration.She has lost Carrie White's voice in her narrative effort. As a simple story, she does a great job . . . but you have to feel for the Character of Carrie (and you don't).

In the audio version of the book, you can understandhow this material seems slightly dated and needs a slight updating.Which also brings it down a notch

Bennet Pomerantz, AUDIOWORLD

Great reading of a good novel!
I had read Stephen King's first novel, Carrie, years ago and finished it in one night.It's shorter than most of his later work and pretty good for a first book.I recently listened to this unabridged audio version of the novel read by Sissy Spacek, who played the title role in the original film adaptation.Spacek does a fine job here and the book holds up well after 30+ years. ... Read more

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Carrie...Read By...Carrie.......Other Editions Available, Check For Best Deal
This review refers to theAudio edition(CD)of "Carrie" by Stephen King...

Other than her creator, Stephen King, can you think of anyone better suited to get into the head of Carrie White than Carrie herself? Sissy Spacek(who played Carrie in the film) not only does an excellent job in the part of Carrie, during this chilling read, but makes the transition from character to character, to the reading of the various news articles,journals and books relating to the bizarre events that lead to the horrific and tragic ending for a little town in Maine in the 1970's.

Okay, just in case there is someone out there who has not seen the movie or read the novel, Carrie is a tormented high school girl. Tormented by her deranged mother and her classmates. She has grown up, knowing she has a special, but secret and potentially deadly talent. She is telekinetic. All she has to do is see something in her mind, and "flex" her brain and she can move the objects, lock a door, slow a heart beat. She's used this power on occasion, but hasn't really learned it full capabilities. Her peers are notorious for playing pranks on her. Mean and nasty pranks, always leaving Carrie dehumanized, and humiliated. She would always beat a retreat home when pushed to the edge, but on Prom Night, they went too far. When the pranksters go to great lengths to humiliate her in front of the entire class, Carrie's powers seem to take on on a life of their own.She flexes her will with a vengeance. The results are terrifying and the death toll is high.

Long before "Mean Girls" made their film debut Stephen King had the bad girl type nailed in this electrifying novel.The story is cleverly told in narrative from the different witnesses points of views, official statements and testimonies. King makes the characters seem all too real. The story builds on Carrie's emotions, as with each spiteful event, her anger takes her just a little further to the brink, until finally, well you know what they say about a woman scorned..and one with telekinetic powers has the ultimate fury.

Sissy Spacek's read takes Carrie to each level. The fear and humiliation she feels, and eventually her anger. When she cries out to her mother "Mama, Mama", you know what she is feeling. When she tells her mother, she has a "gift" for her, we know again, what's to come.Giving each character their own personality, you will get to know them very well. She did an excellent job with all of the various players. She makes it a most enjoyable and spine tingling listen.

There are other editions of this audio version available. Some have deals from the outside sellers that are much more reasonable at this time.Carrie is one of the better deals I see right now. See my review of 10/12/06 for details of that audio edition.

This story has adult situations and langauge and is not suitable for younger listeners.

A great addition to your audio book collection. Take "Carrie" on the road with you and enjoy the read....Laurie

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Loretta Lynn’s classic memoir tells the story of her early life in Butcher Holler, Kentucky, and her amazing rise to the top of the music industry.
 
Born into deep poverty, married at thirteen, mother of six, and a grandmother by the time she was twenty-nine, Loretta Lynn went on to become one of the most prolific and influential songwriters and singers in modern country music. Here we see the determination and talent that led to her trailblazing career and made her the first woman to be named Entertainer of the Year by the Country Music Association and the first woman to receive a gold record in country music.


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great story
I loved the book. Loretta lyn had a very hard and exciting life you wont be disappointed with the book.

Amazing!
I have very high standards when it comes to idols (at least by my warped definition).Mrs. Lynn managed to be both an idol and hero to me.She is a strong out spoken female that refuses to compromise her beliefs to fit into a cookie cutter/hollywood type image.The best day of my life was getting to visit her ranch and pose for a photo on her steps.I love both of her books although Still Woman Enough is my favorite as she is completely relaxed in being herself.Loretta Lynn is an inspritation for all women young and old that have had to overcome hard challenges in life.

Very Impressed
A grandmother at 28?Wow!I learned a lot of interesting things about 1) the country music star, and 2) about coming up hard and making it work out.

This book is Loretta Lynn's tale of her childhood in Butcher Holler with her poor but pround parents.Her parents allow her to be married off to a man she barely knows when she is 13.Amazingly, she remains married to this man for the rest of his life.

Anyway, the husband encourages Loretta to sing publicly because he thinks she has a great voice.And I don't need to tell you how the career goes, because that's pretty popular knowledge.

All in all, this was a great book.Very well developed and informative, whether you're a country music fan or not.

What can I say?
I have been completely in love with Loretta Lynn ever since I saw "Coal Miner's Daughter." I didn't even know who she was til I watched the movie at age 14, then I read the book and became hooked on her music. She is an amazing woman. Her life has been hard, and she doesn't take any of her success for granted. She is who she is. What you see is what you get with her. I don't know if anyone who reads her book could relate to half of what she has experienced, but it makes for interesting reading. I was lucky enough to see her live in concert a month ago, and when she walked out on that stage, I was brought literally to tears. I just couldn't believe this woman I admire so highly was actually standing in front of me. I'll never forget that night. And I will never stop loving Loretta Lynn. Read BOTH of her autobiographies. Both are excellent.

I was a Coal Miner's daughter in Kentucky
This is one of the greatest books that has ever been written.My father was a coal miner until he got hurt.I sing my self and loretta is just so good.Being from the same state she is i guess the reason she has such a influenece on my life.If you read this book you will love it. ... Read more

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Although the supernatural pyrotechnics are handled with King's customary aplomb, it is the carefully drawn portrait of the little horrors of small towns, high schools, and adolescent sexuality that give this novel its power, and assures its place in the King canon. --Simon Leake ... Read more

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Fantastically Frightening
High school teen Carietta "Carrie" White grew up with an unbalanced religious fanatic for a mother and without either a father or friends she could rely on. Kept from doing things or buying clothes that the average teen would, the change in her life begins the day of her first menstrual period at age seventeen. The emotional trigger that is pulled that day unlocks her latent telekinetic powers and she starts to put them to use. These powers, combined with one girl named Sue's guilt over what she did to Carrie and her attempts to redeem herself, set the stage for one of the most terrifying and memorable fictional events in modern times: Prom Night, the Black Prom, Carrie's vengeful rampage through the town of Chamberlain.

The strange thing with this book is that you know exactly how it's going to end and what happens, both because Carrie is both an infamous book and movie and because the epistolary form of the novel gives away multiple times that people will die on Prom Night and even who will die. But it doesn't subtract from the suspense at all to be told what happens; I found that it excited me more because it told me what was ahead and made me want to read the accounts of those who were involved instead of third parties who weren't there.

All of the characters felt realistic and flawed to me: Carrie, the shy, abused, and bullied girl who becomes more and more unhinged until she finally breaks; Sue Snell, the girl who did something she regretted and went to great lengths to try and fix what she did in some what; Chris Hargensen, the bully who hurt Carrie for years and just started to get an inkling of a feeling that she was doing something wrong just a little too late; Billy Nolan, the complete monster (okay, so he wasn't as three-dimensional as others); and Margaret White, the severely-unhinged and religiously fanatical mother of Carrie. Everyone had life to them, even characters mentioned only once or twice.

After I was done with the book, I remember Chris's hesitation when it came time to pull the string and dump the pig's blood on Carrie. What if she had decided against it? Would the buckets have remained unpoured and Carrie would have had the best night of her life? After getting along with Freida and other, would Carrie have started to make friends? How would Tommy have dealt with loving both Sue and Carrie? I wanted to know about everything that could have happened, but didn't- it made me want to see an alternate ending. There's the possibility that Billy would have pulled the string after he got sick of Chris's hesitation, but there's also equal chance that he wouldn't have. Yet even if the bucket had remained untouched, there would still be Carrie's mother to think about, who had been planning the whole time to kill Carrie when she got back. Would that have been Carrie's trigger instead of the pig blood? We will never know.

This book gave me one of my favorite moments of all time, one that made me mentally go, "Oh snap!" It was when Chris Hargensen's lawyer dad John Hargensen and Principal Henry Grayle had a mental face-off. Chris was supposed to go to detention for throwing tampons and pads at Carrie and when she didn't, she was suspended for three days and lost her prom tickets. John comes in to try and get the prom rights back for her and a mental face-off the likes of which I have never seen before happens between the two men. While they argued legal mumbo-jumbo back and forth about the rights of the school to punish one of their students and how teachers can handle students, I was on the edge of my seat. Once I was finished with that scene, I went back and read it again just because it was so awesome! Mr. Grayle definitely won that battle, showing off Chris's ugly record like that, along with threatening to sue on Carrie's behalf.

One small point bothered me about the novel, but I'm willing to let it slide. This novel is told in epistolary form with excerpts from fake books and accounts from people who lived in Chamberlain then. Yet this book contains Carrie's point of view when it's never seen that she write in a journal or leaves behind records; Tommy's thoughts and feelings just before his death are in here too, along with Margaret White's. When these characters die without leaving behind any records, where would these bits come from? This is my first true epistolary, but I would think that the entire book would have to be made up of records of some sort, not just pieces of it. I'll give it a pass because it's my first epistolary (my issue might have to do with being an idealist and not knowing how they work) and because it's in third-person. We don't ask about who the narrator is in every third -person book, do we? Exactly.

How could I not give this book a five-star rating? It was suspenseful, terrifying, classic, and I couldn't stand to put it down! (It also helps that if I gave it even one ukulele, the fictional and ghostly spirit of Carrie would come and kill me, according to my wild daynightmares.) I highly recommend this book; after reading it, you will more than likely see why Stephen King has become so popular. If you will excuse me, I'm going to go find the movie on television.

Cross-posted from my blog, Ashleigh Reads (With a Ukulele), also posted on Goodreads.

His First
"If only it would be today and Jesus coming not with a lamb and a shepherd's crook, but with a boulder in each hand to crush the laughers and the snickerers, to root out the evil and destroy it screaming - a terrible Jesus of blood and righteousness.

And if only she could be His sword and His arm."

Everyone has, no doubt, heard of Stephen King and his first work, Carrie, and yet it is paradoxically easy to distance oneself from the giants in the field. After a point, it's easier to think of everyone on the subway holding a newly released copy of Under the Dome than it is to remember the realities of King's writing. When I began Carrie, my first King novel in two or so years, I was immediately reminded of all the reasons that I read twenty of his novels in a period of just under three months. By the time I finished Carrie, I also remembered the annoying aspects of King's writing that are just as much a part of his style as the positive parts.

Carrie is a mercilessly mocked misfit that comes to embody supernatural revenge through her latent telekinetic powers. The structure of the story is built entirely around a single massive set piece. The events are deserving of the focus lavished on them, but the extensive early foreshadowing serves to dampen any sort of surprise. The novel is told through an untold number of viewpoints, both pseudo-nonfiction and a standard third person. This cornucopia of perspectives leads to both great and terrible things. On the upside, we come to sympathize with (almost) every side of the equation, and therein lies the novel's greatest strength. On the downside, the pacing of the book is often slowed down at critical moments. Learning about a man running terrified as he's pursued by what feels like every demon of hell personified in an endlessly wronged schoolgirl? Awesome. Learning about sixty of them for every street that Carrie crosses? Not so much.

The strength of the novel comes from the characters, and the star of the cast is, of course, Carrie White. The number of truly innocent characters in fiction is fairly low, but Carrie is without a doubt one of them. She is both naïve and cynical, both pitiable and, by the end, reprehensible. In her character, King has taken a phenomenon as common as anything else in the world - the outsider, mocked by the whole for being different - and turned it into a tragedy as personal and as unjust as any global atrocity.

Of the other characters, most manage to come to life through their dilemmas and problems. Undoubtedly the greatest of the secondary characters is Sue Snell, who tries to right the wrongs done to Carrie. Of course, she's far from black and white. She was there along with everyone else, taunting Carrie, and only now does she feel the cruelty of what she did. Often, it's impossible to tell whether her actions are motivated by a newly found compassion, or whether they're merely empathy in the guise of selfishness. And it's not just that we don't know, the character doesn't either, and she admits it.

The only character that really falls flat is Carrie's mother, Margaret White. For the first, but certainly not the last, time in his career, Stephen King investigates religion, this time in the guise of Margret's zealotry. Unfortunately, this is probably his worst treatment of it. The early glimpses of her views are disturbing, but you soon come to the realization that there isn't much under the surface, and some of the more outrageous aspects make the entire affair seem kind of silly. Dirtypillows, for instance, are just not a very frightening, nor realistic, term for breasts. I mean, fine, sexuality's evil, but I just have trouble conceiving of the sheer act of puberty being sinful.

King's prose in Carrie is similar to his writing throughout his career: down to earth and easy to follow. It's easy to imagine these events taking place in some nearby small town, and King's diction is a definite part of that. His writing feels like the raw speech of the average man and as such conveys a sense of time and place like few others are able to. The most interesting element in it here is his conveying of thoughts - often contradictory to the majority of the prose - in parenthesis, such as:

"Carrie tried to swallow an obstruction and only
(i am not afraid o yes i am)
got rid of part of it."

Carrie isn't flawless, but its successes - primarily the characterization of Carrie White - are so powerful that you'll be haunted for days to come. Without the faintest aura of pretension, Stephen King manages to show the reader something about the consequences of their actions on others. Highly recommended, if you're in the mood for a bleak novel that may just show you some things about yourself and your interactions that you didn't wholly realize.

Just Didn't Do It For Me
I am not going to say much, but I just didn't find this book all that compelling. After reading Stephen King's On Writing, this book was a bit of a letdown -- especially because he makes some of the errors he warns against. Of course this could be because it was his first novel, but I didn't find the writing all that great. Some metaphors were trite or even a bit forced and laughable at times. And I certainly didn't find the book all that scary. Carrie was more of a two-dimensional figure t ...moreI am not going to say much, but I just didn't find this book all that compelling. After reading Stephen King's On Writing, this book was a bit of a letdown -- especially because he makes some of the errors he warns against. Of course this could be because it was his first novel, but I didn't find the writing all that great. Some metaphors were trite or even a bit forced and laughable at times. And I certainly didn't find the book all that scary. Carrie was more of a two-dimensional figure to me than a real person. I haven't given up on King, but was not that impressed.

carrie
Great book could not put it down king holds you in every page and does not let go

CARROE
The book came quickly, was in very nice condition-however, it was fom my son's summer reading list--and he would LOVE to read this copy, because it includes an analysis of the story and the hidden meanings---just what he'd like to write a great paper without thinking for himself:) ... Read more