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Posted by Chris Crossland on Aug-04-2006 12:38:

Playbo\y

Posted by 3jaz on Nov-01-2006 12:58:

Book Description
Straight facts about riding! A Twist of the Wrist, the acknowledged number one book on rider improvement for ten years straight, brought riders worldwide to a new understanding of vital riding skills. Uncovers and traces, action by action, the direct links between man and machine.

Posted by ZeJayMan on Nov-01-2006 13:04:

THe Iliad, by Homer.

It's hard going... Heavy shit.

Posted by pvdAngel on Nov-01-2006 13:12:

"Sarah" - J T Leroy.

Posted by Ted Promo on Nov-01-2006 14:10:

Posted by Rainborn on Nov-01-2006 14:12:

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Originally posted by ZeJayMan
THe Iliad, by Homer.

It's hard going... Heavy shit.

Good stuff! I love Greece!

Posted by Slylee on Nov-01-2006 14:20:

this thread.

Posted by EXTREMUM on Nov-01-2006 14:21:

quote:
Originally posted by Slylee
this thread.

Wow, no sh*t!

Anyway...

Posted by ZeJayMan on Nov-01-2006 14:41:

quote:
Originally posted by Rainborn
Good stuff! I love Greece!

I'm about halfway through the book and it's one of the toughest things i've had to read so far.

Props to the Chomsky reader. I've just finished Imperial Ambitions, the guy is a genius.

Posted by Omega_M on Nov-01-2006 15:49:

Finished reading this book some time ago. Very interesting.

Posted by Krypton on Nov-01-2006 15:54:

Right wing politics.

Posted by Boomer187 on Nov-01-2006 15:59:

im preparing my lecture.

Posted by Ted Promo on Nov-01-2006 16:09:

quote:
Originally posted by Krypton
Right wing politics.

I'd have to be masochistic to even touch that.

Posted by kush paintings on Nov-01-2006 16:15:

quote:
Originally posted by l�cid
i disagree. i mean it's a great concept in theory, and i always get excited when i find out that one of my favorite books is being made into a movie... but 9 times out of 10, they just suck.

unless the director and cast are amazing, i'm usually just really unimpressed by movies based on books. too many of them get the "Hollywood" treatment and they just lose the feel of the original story.

For the most part, I agree with you. However, I think there are a lot of solid adaptations, especially as of late. I think one of the best has been Christopher Nolan (all of his Hollywood releases: Memento, The Prestige, the Batman series have been adaptations). Sin City is another example of a great adaptation, and a ballsy one at that. You also have the fantasy novel adaptations: Lord of the Rings series and Chornicles of Narnia, both effectively done.

I think the difficulty in adapting some of these books to the screen could arise for two reasons. First, often with a book you really can get in the characters head, hear their thoughts. With a movie you can't, aside from voice over's which must be used sparingly. So, while you may have a book that has excellent characterization, this could be all internaly happening and therefore would make for a piss-poor movie. Second, the story can be too "big" for a movie. I think this was demonstrated with the Da Vinci Code, as there was so much action that they tried to condense into the movie, there was absolutely 0 depth to it.

All that being said, I think with the number of successful and failed adaptations,you will probably always be wrong if you were to say adaptations aren't effective.

Posted by miamitrance04 on Nov-01-2006 16:16:

the last book i read was "Interview with a Vampire" (Anne Rice) it was one of my favorite books i have read, 1000x better than the movie.

Posted by tctitan on Nov-01-2006 16:21:

re-reading the wheel of time series by robert jordan.

Posted by Ted Promo on Nov-01-2006 16:24:

quote:
Originally posted by tctitan
re-reading the wheel of time series by robert jordan.

Oh man, my brother 'gasmed over those books back in the day. I tried to read the first one and then gave up by page 20.

Posted by emc^2 on Nov-01-2006 16:34:

Just finished:

...and now reading:

Posted by Allied Nations on Nov-01-2006 16:44:

have read both of these a million times and will probably readem both a million more.

Recently picked up another copy of tortilla flat, i left my copy in India.

Posted by Clovis on Nov-01-2006 16:47:

Posted by stren on Nov-01-2006 16:53:

Posted by infinity HiGH on Nov-01-2006 17:03:

I need to read something. Last book I read was The Alchemist before summer. Anyone have any recommendations? I'm open to a lot of books as long as it's a good, thought-provoking story. Something that requires a bit of an imagination.

Posted by basd on Nov-01-2006 18:24:

Just bought Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum".. Probably gonna start reading this weekend.

Posted by Sunsnail on Nov-01-2006 20:50:

quote:
Originally posted by infinity HiGH
I need to read something. Last book I read was The Alchemist before summer. Anyone have any recommendations? I'm open to a lot of books as long as it's a good, thought-provoking story. Something that requires a bit of an imagination.

dune!

Posted by Rainborn on Nov-01-2006 20:51:

quote:
Originally posted by Sunsnail
dune!

OH GOD! I hven't read that one until now, well I'm gonna start reading it soon... Holy shit, I wanna read em all so bad (There are like... 10 books in the series right?) and see the movie and all. I only played the game so far...

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