Thursday, January 14, 2010

Read the Book, See the Movie Challenge

I am so in on this challenge! I love to read books and then go see the movie. I love that as you read the book, you imagine your characters and scenery one way and then you see it on the movie screen and say, "What? That is not at all the way I would have pictured the town!" Or, "No way, they picked her for the main character?" On rare occasions, like with the Harry Potter books and movies or the Twilight books and movies, do they (in my opinion) get it right!

Ok, here are the choices for this challenge:

  • Matinee: one book/movie

  • Double Feature: two books/movies

  • Saturday Movie Marathon: four books/movies

  • Film Festival: eight books/movies

  • Festival Jury Member: ten books/movies


I am going to go for the Saturday Movie Marathon: four books/movies! I will keep a running list of the books and movies I plan to read and see below.

If you want more information on this challenge or you care to join me, head over to Ready When You are, C.B. and sign up!

  1. Dear John, by: Nicholas Sparks


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Last year an English professor at my college retired; she left most of her books to the faculty. I scooped up several freebies: The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham was one of these. The particular volume that I read was an old, ragged, highlighted, dog-eared cheap paperback. It had been read by several people before me.

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Shanel Hachette said...

On the surface, Metagame is a silly romp through all the normal conceits in science fiction and fantasy that you can think of. Landstrom spoofs it all, genetic engineering, computer data processing, familiars, chemical dependency, fantasy role play, to name a few. The book centers on a futuristic virtual gamer named D_Light, who is in his mid-fifties, but looks immortal, and lives on an Earth now ruled by a vacuous mystical alien entity known as the Divine Authority of the Oversoul, who took over humanity after it fought punishing wars over homosexual marriage rights (I kid thee not) and nearly got wiped out by a rogue kid with a grudge who destroyed civilization with a supervirus, thus allowing the aliens to step in and bind all humanity to virtual gaming in every way conceivable, while humanity itself reverts to a meta-feudal family system that competes in the real life or death struggle of meta game quests.

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NoteBook and "Dear John" are great!

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