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Pike 13,459 posts
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sam_spade 15,745 posts
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Registered 20 years agoThat's because great books usually get converted, I suspect that Da Vinci Code will lend itself more to the screen than it does to the page. I've heard that Sideways is a better film than it is a book.
I feel a bit sorry for kids that don't develop the reading habit. Especially, if the news is anything to go by, that power might be limited.
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Twinkle 542 posts
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Registered 17 years agoecosse_011172 wrote:
Any examples on a film that has been better than the original novel?
Lord of the Rings. I found the books really dull.
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Pike 13,459 posts
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Registered 18 years agoTwinkle wrote:
ecosse_011172 wrote:
Any examples on a film that has been better than the original novel?
Lord of the Rings. I found the books really dull.
/runs
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marilena 8,238 posts
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Registered 18 years agoPike wrote:
The books ARE dull, and fairly badly written.
I disagree. They are dull, but well written.
Edit: the movies are still worse, mind.
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Frankypanky 932 posts
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Furbs wrote:
Personally, I'd say there is a snobbery around books. How many times do you hear "meh, the book is better" with a movie adaptation? If I'm looking to educate myself on a subject, and use a widely respected website, it still comes across as less valid than a "proper" book on the subject. At least thats the impression I get.
Any examples on a film that has been better than the original novel?
The Orchid Thief....gif)
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mal 29,326 posts
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Registered 20 years agomarilena wrote:
The title has an english translation, but it sounds rubbish. Besides, if you don't refer to it in the french, you're clearly not snobbish enough to read it.
I don't know if snobbery is all there is to it. For instance, I genuinely feel guilty when reading an "easy" book, because there are so many really good books out there that I haven't read. I bought 'A la Recherche du Temps Perdu' (don't know the english name) two weeks ago, but I never got to even start reading it. I'm not a snob, I really want to read it. -
Pike 13,459 posts
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Registered 18 years agomarilena wrote:
Pike wrote:
The books ARE dull, and fairly badly written.
I disagree. They are dull, but well written.
Edit: the movies are still worse, mind.
Edited by marilena at 12:04:57 25-10-2005
Pfft!
The movies are a massive improvement compared to the books.
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marilena 8,238 posts
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Registered 18 years agoAh, but you can skip the bits you don't like in the books (I surely did). If you go to the cinema you have to sit through the whole bloody thing. -
Pike 13,459 posts
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Registered 18 years agoOn the DVD you can press skip.
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opalw00t 12,836 posts
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Registered 17 years agoecosse_011172 wrote:
Any examples on a film that has been better than the original novel?
American Psycho. The book is just unreadable at times with the detailed descriptions of what people are wearing and annoyed me so much I gave up... -
w00t wrote:
ecosse_011172 wrote:
Any examples on a film that has been better than the original novel?
American Psycho. The book is just unreadable at times with the detailed descriptions of what people are wearing and annoyed me so much I gave up...
I thought this was actually the best part of the book, while I had read better gorey stuff in Stephen King books.
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opalw00t 12,836 posts
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Registered 17 years agoUncleLou wrote:
w00t wrote:
ecosse_011172 wrote:
Any examples on a film that has been better than the original novel?
American Psycho. The book is just unreadable at times with the detailed descriptions of what people are wearing and annoyed me so much I gave up...
I thought this was actually the best part of the book, while I had read better gorey stuff in Stephen King books.
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sam_spade 15,745 posts
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Registered 20 years agootto wrote:
Hands up who's read Proust. All of it.
Come on, hands up.
\o/
/outsnobs forum
Why would you waste your life reading that rubbish?
/counterattack
The Orchid Thief...
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Ginger 7,256 posts
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Registered 19 years agoMurbal wrote:
It's not that bad. He repeats himself so much you can skip huge chunks
/Glances over at The Oddysey
Maybe when I've finished this book
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ssuellid 19,142 posts
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Registered 17 years agootto wrote:
Me too. Bloody good stuff, Thucydides.
Proust, rubbish?? /sucks in breath
/charges up BFG
OK then...
Thucydides.
In the original.
FOR THE W1N
I consider the fact that I've read Homer, Euripides, Sophocles, Aeschylus, Thucydides, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Vergil, Horace, Ovid and so on (in the original Greek and Latin) is enough to excuse me from reading anything I don't want to - that little lot is enough to out-highbrow just about anyone.
/is currently (re)reading Halo: The Fall of Reach.
edit: didn't close italics. May be able to read Greek and Latin, but HTML is getting rusty...
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sam_spade 15,745 posts
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Registered 20 years agoWe could play the opposite of this and do Humiliation
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Registered 20 years agoThucydides.
In the original.
Outdone!
Amusingly, the closest I can claim is reading Dante in Latin - only to discover a few years later that the Latin edition was a translation from the regional Italian vernacular he wrote in. Doh!
I did make an attempt at Mishimia in the original but I got about six pages in after the first week and decided that perhaps a translated version was more appropriate to my kanji reading abilities... I'm a failure as a literary snob!
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Hands up who's read Proust. All of it.
Come on, hands up.
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Proust, rubbish?? /sucks in breath
/charges up BFG
OK then...
Thucydides.
In the original.
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Furbs 45,740 posts
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Registered 18 years agoPersonally, I'd say there is a snobbery around books. How many times do you hear "meh, the book is better" with a movie adaptation? If I'm looking to educate myself on a subject, and use a widely respected website, it still comes across as less valid than a "proper" book on the subject. At least thats the impression I get. -
Furbs 45,740 posts
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Registered 18 years agoHunt for Red October. Sonar just doesnt work in book form 
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Furbs 45,740 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI was going to, but decided I'd wait for the film version. -
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