Sol Yurick

[Dirty Harry Potter]

Does anyone know of a link to buy the 1965 novel? I've been searching for years. From what I've read, Yurick dismissed the film and the book is practically impossible to find today.

Help out a new blood here. I got a heavy rep! Also my wife is from the Bronx. We were married there last year.  8)

[cpcompany]

I have tried to find the Warriors and Wanderes books but to no avail. I have only looked in bookshops but cant be bothered to search on the net.

[trixter468]

Heres a link to the book (paperback) on amazon. I'm not sure if this is what your looking for, but its what I could find. Hope it helps!

http://www.amazon.com/Warriors-Sol-Yurick/dp/0802139922/sr=1-1/qid=1166811856/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-2293721-8690540?ie=UTF8&s=books

[Stonerose]

I bought my copy from Amazon! I got it pretty fast! I can recomend them!

[$now4Ever]

I also got mine from Amazon i actualy never though i would get the book since it is so old but i got it.

[coco]

hmm thats funny..because i easily purchased mine at the barnes n' nobles out here.

then again alot of people have trouble finding the directors cut dvd in stores and i see it all the time out here!

[Swan23]

I don't know, if I'm going to get it. I might. But if so, there is a Barnes and Noble out here.

[ZombiePlatypus]

I found the book at a Borders a while back... Yurick's foreword makes him out to be really full of himself...

Also, anybody know what he was talking about when he claimed that his Dominators were all black in the foreword? Because in the actual novel he describes Bimbo as being "Indian-faced" and Hector being a blonde when he had that old racist lady slobbering all over him, (whereas she wanted nothing to do with Lunkface or Bimbo because of their skin color?)...

Anyways, I enjoyed the book, but then I read the foreword later on and it kinda left me feeling sour towards the author...

[adam88]

Well I am sure Bimbo is black, I guess he just meant that his features are of Indian decent, even if he is not.  Hector is of Puerto Rican background, and a lot of Puerto Rican's like me for example, are light skinned, and a few have light hair.  Being that there all black, and one Hispanic, Sol Yurick probably just simply forgot to mention Hector.  I am also of Arab decent as well, and yet I am white.  Some people confuse me of being Italian, in which I am not.  So thats why Hector is described like that.  So I guess thats what he meant.  By the way theres a book forum for this, you should check it out.  It is quite interesting.

[ZombiePlatypus]

Yeah, I saw the forum listed, I'm just avoiding all the other forums 'til I hit my ten posts...

Forgetting about one of your own main characters is a bit odd to me, especially when you're claiming that an interracial Warriors wouldn't happen. No big deal, Hill wanted 'em to be an all black gang in the flick too.

Nevermind all that, what got me the most he just spent a great deal of the Warriors foreword building himself up or trashing the flick. He said himself that one small-time guy wanted to make a true to the novel adaptation, but then he got an offer for more money from big-Hollywood and jumped all over the dollar signs. If the movie ain't what he wanted it was his own fault. Then he's happy peole got roughed up/killed at screenings, because then he could try and sell more books? And he whines about most people who've seen the movie never having read the book, when in reality I know that if not for the movie I'd have never read, or even heard of, The Warriors or even heard of him. Does he realize that most folks who've seen Jaws have never read the book? Yurick is lucky the movie has die-hard fans willing to hunt down his forty year old novel, if not for the cult that loves The Warriors '79 he'd be long forgotten by even more people...

I'm just ranting now, so I'll cut myself off. I'm sure tons of authors are dissapointed by film/TV adaptations of their work. Let me just say again that I liked the book, but Sol seems like a really spiteful dude towards the movie and it's fans, and that bugs me...

[adam88]

oh, sorry ZombiePlatypus, i forgot about the 10 posts lol. You  know I have to agree with you, i guess all in all, when it comes down to the end, lol Yurick is a sad jealous man.  The only thing I agree with is his inspiration from the old Greek myth.  It seems as if he lacks an imagination to write more books, and is jealous of the cult following the movie made.  I mean even Walter Hill describes how he stumbled across the book in a bargain bin.  If he did not look in that direction, the movie probably would have not been the one we grown to love, even if someone else made the film.  I respect Sol Yurick very much, but I guess when someone is angry about not having the success they want, they tend to try to talk sufficticated manner, that just sounds like he's taking out of his behind.  So being that he forgot all about one of his leading characters Hector, I conclude that the man simply lost his mind, but who am I to judge unless I actually met Sol Yurick, and realize whats in his brain.

[reidydarlo]

A 1966 copy is available on ebay to those of you in the US

[Ajax914]

[glow=red,2,300]think about it if we had an all black warriors cast who do you think would play swan aj fox and vermin even rembrandt was a little lighti wouldnt like that at all[/glow]

[adam88]

Of course I love the diversity in the movie, but if you want to be technical, any talented black actor, whether famous or new, could have taken the role.  Being that Walter Hill also wanted the cast to be all black and Hispanic, it would have worked.  Even if you read the script on this site, the characters give no clues on their nationalities.  So its all about playing the part right, and capturing their personalities.  Therefor if the the whole cast had to be black, it actually could work out.  Its just that those executives are so racist, they didn't let Walter Hill try the idea.

[SoldierHeavyMuscle]

ive said it before, and i'll say it again!!
one of the reasons, this movie worked, was because the warriors were a multi-race gang!!!
and if you think about it, it was, and still is, very groundbreaking!!
i'm not gonna go into 2 many details, but i grew up in a gang neighborhood.
and then, like today, gangs are almost always divided by color, and race.

it was a big deal then, and its a big deal, now.
to many things, if not all things, always come down to race.
and i for one, hate it.
and i grew up in an all black/hispanic neighborhood.
so figure that one out!! LOLOL

i always loved the fact, that they were a mixed gang.
it would have never been the same, any other way.