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I've said this many, many times, but the Bond novels are wretched. Boring, racist, sexist, and inane. It's amazing how much better they translate onto the screen.
Fleming predicting the comic industry move towards turning their funny books (pardon me, graphic novels) into naught more than tedious movie pitches by several decades.
It's a lot more obvious with the work of people that have already had success in that arena. Mark Millar, Robert Kirman, etc.
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I'll defend the first three - Casino Royale, Live & Let Die, Moonraker - as having strong, vital prose and a powerful worldview.
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I've been wondering why I've encountered so many pictures of Margaret Atwood recently. Turns out Canada is the featured country at the Frankfurt book fair this year.
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I've been wondering why I've encountered so many pictures of Margaret Atwood recently. Turns out Canada is the featured country at the Frankfurt book fair this year.
We apologize in advance for any social inconveniences that arise during the fair.
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There's also a promotional video on their website, Canada in 82 seconds...
82 seconds of my life wasted.
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There's also a promotional video on their website, Canada in 82 seconds...
82 seconds of my life wasted.
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Olaf wrote:
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There's also a promotional video on their website, Canada in 82 seconds...
82 seconds of my life wasted.
Sorry about that.
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I listened to the Jurassic Park audiobook over the past few weeks — hadn't read it before, so this was really fun. Currently listening to the Alien novelization, which has been pretty ok so far.

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I listened to the Jurassic Park audiobook over the past few weeks — hadn't read it before, so this was really fun. Currently listening to the Alien novelization, which has been pretty ok so far.
How faithful to the Crichton book is the Jurassic Park film?
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Silent Majority wrote:
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I listened to the Jurassic Park audiobook over the past few weeks — hadn't read it before, so this was really fun. Currently listening to the Alien novelization, which has been pretty ok so far.
How faithful to the Crichton book is the Jurassic Park film?
Joking aside, I remember Stephen Jay Gould praising the book for understanding chaos theory a lot better than the movie, which really just updated the old “don’t tamper in God’s domain” to the 90s.

That and several characters died in the book that they kept alive for sequels in the movie.
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Silent Majority wrote:
16 Oct 2020, 1:52am
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15 Oct 2020, 11:13pm
I listened to the Jurassic Park audiobook over the past few weeks — hadn't read it before, so this was really fun. Currently listening to the Alien novelization, which has been pretty ok so far.
How faithful to the Crichton book is the Jurassic Park film?
I recall it being fairly different, particularly the John Hammond character, who's a real dick in the book. There's also some changes in the deaths, IIRC.
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Yeah, there're a fair few differences and a lot more backstory/details of events/etc. And more blood and guts, too.

Alien started to drag, so I switched to The Exoricst, as read by the author. 😎

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I switched to The Exoricst, as read by the author. 😎
Oh my, the book isn't very good. The movie is absurdly better. The only Blatty novel that I can recommend (highly) is Legion, his sequel to The Exorcist and the basis for The Exorcist III.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
16 Oct 2020, 3:04pm
Inder wrote:
16 Oct 2020, 2:51pm
I switched to The Exoricst, as read by the author. 😎
Oh my, the book isn't very good. The movie is absurdly better. The only Blatty novel that I can recommend (highly) is Legion, his sequel to The Exorcist and the basis for The Exorcist III.
Yeah. I never dug deeper into his work when I realized how much better the movie was.
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76) How Europe Underdeveloped Africa - Walter Rodney. Audiobook. 1972. An academic polemic, rich in historical detail and heavy research which places the ills of the continent on capitalism and colonialis. I'd quibble with Rodney's continual referring to the USSR as a socialist state, a hopeful failure of analysis, but that's the only flaw I found in its pages, a narrative of 600 years of exploitation
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