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Spoilers What Book Are You Reading?
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"The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe" is a classic, pure and simple. I'm not sure that any of the others come close, but some of them are lovely.
My reading is sparatic these days. I just finished the V for Vendetta Graphic Novel. Although good, excellent for a comic, the movie was better, more focused, moving and epic as a story.
This just turned up. It used to belong to a library. Still in its jacket so in great condition.
This just turned up. It used to belong to a library. Still in its jacket so in great condition.
Looks like a lovely copy. Enjoy reading it.
I'm not sure if it'll be my next book or not. I'm nearing the end of the "Speer" book that I have found absolutely riveting. It took me the first quarter or so of the book to really get into it but once there it had me hooked. I should have it finished over the weekend. An excellent recommendation.
Delighted - really delighted - that you enjoyed Gitta Sereny's book on Speer - I thought it outstanding, beautifully written, meticulously researched, superbly argued - a brilliant, compelling, devastating - and yes, subtly nuanced - book.
Just finished The Old Man and the Sea.
Now reading The Selected Short Stories of Anton Chekhov.
Now reading The Selected Short Stories of Anton Chekhov.
Just finished "The Scarlatti Inheritance" by Robert Ludlum. Was really good and the last part of the book, really had some page turners. Would have finished it a lot sooner but with vacations and life in general.
On to the next........
On to the next........
My reading is sparatic these days. I just finished the V for Vendetta Graphic Novel. Although good, excellent for a comic, the movie was better, more focused, moving and epic as a story.
I heard the way the book was written and the movie are complete opposites in terms of outcome at the end. Is that true?
Yes different. Honestly I lost real interest about half way through the story and skimmed read the last half. Believe it or not I still think it was well written although the story in the movie was preferable.
I'm starting to find all that the case for reading Pat Barker's Regeneration triology about WWI, even though I'm still only in the first of the novels. I wanted to say thanks again for the recommendation. Just because something takes a Booker Prize doesn't necessarily land a book in my house. This one deserves both the prize and that place here. Now if I could just be more disciplined about reading more of it each night; summers it gets hard with all the other options and guests and the beckoning of open roads when I should be doing chores. Maybe I should start my mornings reading books instead of news...
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Ah, wonderful; delighted your enjoyment and appreciation of that work - and the first book is superlative - mirrors mine.
I think this trilogy simply superb - I cannot recommend it highly enough - and I found it incredibly intelligent, articulate, aware, nuanced, insightful, with a wonderful grasp of class, power, and gender relations, and also of language as it was used at the time.
If you like the first book, you will also love the others in the trilogy - it is a gripping, compelling and extraordinary work. I sat up through the night reading the second book - and had to pause, breathless, at times. Awesome. And horrifying. And brilliant.
My reading is sparatic these days. I just finished the V for Vendetta Graphic Novel. Although good, excellent for a comic, the movie was better, more focused, moving and epic as a story.
I found this to be the case with a lot of Alan Moore's stuff. Have you tried Watchmen yet? Great story, imho from start to finish and they left a lot out of the movie. Which I can see why due to time constants etc. But if you can get your hands on a copy check it out. I liked it.
I also read The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and was bored with it. Again, he is hit or miss with me on his works. Acts I and II are great, but when the martians attack, well that is when he lost me.
I'm not much of a graphic novel reader, but I did recently read Daniel Clowes' Ghost World, and I enjoyed it:
Alan Moore actually requested he be removed as any contributing source for V, he thought the movie completely missed the point of the original graphic novel.
Unfortunately, in my experience, 'the movie' adaptation of a book very often misses the point completely of the novel.
Indeed, whenever I hear that Hollywood wishes to make a movie version of a book I have loved, my heart sinks.
Leave literature well enough alone, and content yourselves with endless trite remakes of movies that have already been proven to have been commercially successful.
That's a blast from the past - I loved Ghost World... It's not that old (late 90s / around the millennium???) but I wonder if the hyper connected kids of now will 'get it' with their always connected lives.I'm not much of a graphic novel reader, but I did recently read Daniel Clowes' Ghost World, and I enjoyed it:
Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz
best read ever.
highly recommended by top authors of the same genre.
Ben Affleck has purchased the rights to it and will produce the movie.
the author is writing the screenplay
best read ever.
highly recommended by top authors of the same genre.
Ben Affleck has purchased the rights to it and will produce the movie.
the author is writing the screenplay
Watchmen is probably the single most indepth and impressive comic story telling I have ever experienced, yet I did not find it all that satisfying as a story.
he thinks that about every comic/book of his that is turned into a film...
he may be correct.
