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1 month ago by panda_ru1e

There's a guardians of ga'hoole movie? That sounds interesting, but probably still books.

Lord of the Rings?

nichtsists

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1 month ago by nichtsists

Book of course. The Princess Bride?

GiuseppeK

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1 month ago by GiuseppeK

One of those rare instances when the movie truly beats the literary source material.

Not that the book stinks or anything, but given how universally beloved the movie adaption was/is (I believe people can be boiled down into two fundamental categories: those who love The Princess Bride and those who haven't seen it), I have a hunch William Goldman's humor would be lost on a great many contemporary readers. I will add that before the internet, he had a whole lot of folks convinced that Simon Morgenstern was the real author, and that the nations of Florin and Guilder could be found on a map (of course, we're all far too clever here in the 21st century to fall for any of that now).

The movie was certainly kinder to the titular Buttercup, whose literary counterpart was an utterly vapid, one-dimensional ditz.

Don't get me wrong; for hardcore fans of the movie, it's definitely worth the read. "Weird flex" and all, but I was one of the readers silly enough to follow the instructions to write a letter to the publisher in order to be sent a copy of the "deleted" reunion scene from the "unabridged original" (as the cool kids might still say: IYKYK).

GiuseppeK

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1 month ago by GiuseppeK

At the risk of oversharing, at the moment I'm listening to a reading of the long-out of print novelization of THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD by John Russo as I make the knots.

Halfway through, and gotta say, the author had some genuine poet in him, and his fleshing out of some details that didn't make it onto the screen are making for an enjoyable listen (well, if one is into that kinda thing, anyway).

GiuseppeK

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3 weeks, 6 days ago by GiuseppeK

Not gonna hold my breath that anyone on these boards has seen THE NEVERENDING STORY (probably the best I could hope for is "Stranger Things" possibly making references to it), but I'd been listening to the audiobook version of the original novel while I've been rowing (when you can't follow the plot any longer, it's a sign we're pushing too hard).

I can now understand why the author HATED the movie adaption and wanted his name stricken from anything to do with it whatsoever--it's such a massive work, the filmmakers really didn't have much choice but to cut out a lot of stuff, and well... a lot of it was probably superfluous. They did try to cover some of what they couldn't the first time around in the sequels, but the less said about them, the better.

One interesting wrinkle I hadn't previously been aware of was that Artax ("IYKYK" 😭) could talk in the book, which made his death scene even more heart wrenching.

Shameless self-promotion while we're on the subject: #197035 👍

panda_ru1e Advanced	1 month ago by panda_ru1e There's a guardians of ga'hoole movie? That sounds interesting, but probably still books. Lord of the Rings?
nichtsists Bracelet King	1 month ago by nichtsists Book of course. The Princess Bride?
GiuseppeK Bracelet King	1 month ago by GiuseppeK One of those rare instances when the movie truly beats the literary source material. Not that the book stinks or anything, but given how universally beloved the movie adaption was/is (I believe people can be boiled down into two fundamental categories: those who love The Princess Bride and those who haven't seen it), I have a hunch William Goldman's humor would be lost on a great many contemporary readers. I will add that before the internet, he had a whole lot of folks convinced that Simon Morgenstern was the real author, and that the nations of Florin and Guilder could be found on a map (of course, we're all far too clever here in the 21st century to fall for any of that now). The movie was certainly kinder to the titular Buttercup, whose literary counterpart was an utterly vapid, one-dimensional ditz. Don't get me wrong; for hardcore fans of the movie, it's definitely worth the read. "Weird flex" and all, but I was one of the readers silly enough to follow the instructions to write a letter to the publisher in order to be sent a copy of the "deleted" reunion scene from the "unabridged original" (as the cool kids might still say: IYKYK).
GiuseppeK Bracelet King	1 month ago by GiuseppeK At the risk of oversharing, at the moment I'm listening to a reading of the long-out of print novelization of THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD by John Russo as I make the knots. Halfway through, and gotta say, the author had some genuine poet in him, and his fleshing out of some details that didn't make it onto the screen are making for an enjoyable listen (well, if one is into that kinda thing, anyway).
GiuseppeK Bracelet King	3 weeks, 6 days ago by GiuseppeK Not gonna hold my breath that anyone on these boards has seen THE NEVERENDING STORY (probably the best I could hope for is "Stranger Things" possibly making references to it), but I'd been listening to the audiobook version of the original novel while I've been rowing (when you can't follow the plot any longer, it's a sign we're pushing too hard). I can now understand why the author HATED the movie adaption and wanted his name stricken from anything to do with it whatsoever--it's such a massive work, the filmmakers really didn't have much choice but to cut out a lot of stuff, and well... a lot of it was probably superfluous. They did try to cover some of what they couldn't the first time around in the sequels, but the less said about them, the better. One interesting wrinkle I hadn't previously been aware of was that Artax ("IYKYK" 😭) could talk in the book, which made his death scene even more heart wrenching. Shameless self-promotion while we're on the subject: #197035 👍

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