I will concede that Fight Club the movie is one movie better than the book that inspired it. In fact, I usually cite that movie as an exception to the rule that the book is better than the movie.
I disagree on the C.S. Lewis and Tolkien choices because there is still more back story and depth in the books than in the movies. Ironically, I think the same can be said for The Princess Bride.
The Stand was never made into a movie; it was made into a TV miniseries. Besides, making a Stephen King book better by making it into a movie is akin to making a kindergartener's drawing better by making it into a movie. From a style and presentation standpoint King is a terrible writer. He's like Dan Brown. The same goes for the guy who wrote Forrest Gump, and Michael Crichton. So, if you're going to say that pulp authors who write airplane reading with virtually no redeeming value tend to write books worse than the movies made from them, perhaps you're on to something. But then I'm not likely to waste time reading them in the first place.
Finally, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was never a real book. There was COLORING BOOK that inspired a song that inspired the Rankin-Bass stop-animation movie. If an actual book was subsequently published it doesn't count.
In other words, I think you only listed ten, of which I would firmly dispute 4 and where most of the other 6 are not worth reading in the first place. Fight Club, however, is a valid choice, so you did "name one" as I asked.
I disagree on the C.S. Lewis and Tolkien choices because there is still more back story and depth in the books than in the movies. Ironically, I think the same can be said for The Princess Bride.
The Stand was never made into a movie; it was made into a TV miniseries. Besides, making a Stephen King book better by making it into a movie is akin to making a kindergartener's drawing better by making it into a movie. From a style and presentation standpoint King is a terrible writer. He's like Dan Brown. The same goes for the guy who wrote Forrest Gump, and Michael Crichton. So, if you're going to say that pulp authors who write airplane reading with virtually no redeeming value tend to write books worse than the movies made from them, perhaps you're on to something. But then I'm not likely to waste time reading them in the first place.
Finally, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was never a real book. There was COLORING BOOK that inspired a song that inspired the Rankin-Bass stop-animation movie. If an actual book was subsequently published it doesn't count.
In other words, I think you only listed ten, of which I would firmly dispute 4 and where most of the other 6 are not worth reading in the first place. Fight Club, however, is a valid choice, so you did "name one" as I asked.
Political correctness is the pettiest form of casuistry.
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
ἡ δὲ κἀκ τριῶν τρυπημάτων ἐργαζομένη ἐνεκάλει τῇ φύσει, δυσφορουμένη, ὅτι δὴ μὴ καὶ τοὺς τιτθοὺς αὐτῇ εὐρύτερον ἢ νῦν εἰσι τρυπώη, ὅπως καὶ ἄλλην ἐνταῦθα μίξιν ἐπιτεχνᾶσθαι δυνατὴ εἴη. – Procopius
Ummaka qinnassa nīk!
*MySmiley*
This message last edited by Tom on 14/12/2010 at 03:33:14 PM
2011: a year of RAFO challenges.
13/12/2010 10:45:30 PM
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What do we win? *NM*
13/12/2010 10:59:45 PM
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I like.
14/12/2010 01:08:36 AM
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I refuse to watch film versions of books if I can help it
14/12/2010 01:20:21 AM
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I generally agree, but sometimes the movies are better than the books. *NM*
14/12/2010 01:27:44 AM
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Name one. *NM*
14/12/2010 05:07:36 AM
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I'll name a dozen.
14/12/2010 10:32:04 AM
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Not all of those are valid choices.
14/12/2010 03:32:55 PM
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Also Big Fish.
14/12/2010 08:02:07 PM
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Lots of poor movies there
14/12/2010 10:48:59 PM
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Yeah, I don't know how any movie could be as bad as that book. *NM*
15/12/2010 08:06:20 AM
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This is a really good idea. I like the challenges. I wonder if I can be arsed to do one. Or more. *NM*
14/12/2010 08:23:42 PM
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Question: Can books count for multiple challenges? *NM*
14/12/2010 09:34:28 PM
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Preferably not. But we can be tolerant if you're running out of time.
14/12/2010 09:49:26 PM
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But the challenge-books can count towards the 50 and the book you'd been meaning to read.
14/12/2010 10:17:12 PM
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Re: But the challenge-books can count towards the 50 and the book you'd been meaning to read.
14/12/2010 10:22:06 PM
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Inspired somewhat by Tom's post, here's one I'm toying with for next year
15/12/2010 04:46:05 AM
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A condition and an observation
15/12/2010 11:27:29 AM
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Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian?
15/12/2010 01:08:04 PM
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I liked The Road and No Country For Old Men as well.
22/12/2010 06:23:23 PM
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Is The Road really a western, though? *NM*
22/12/2010 10:30:44 PM
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true. Not so much, I just always pigeonhole McCarthy as a westernish writer. *NM*
25/12/2010 02:20:54 AM
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Karl May?
15/12/2010 07:27:03 PM
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Hm
15/12/2010 03:15:50 PM
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I've read a western. I'm counting that!
30/12/2010 10:50:46 PM
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Re: <will watch interestedly as you play>
16/12/2010 12:22:54 PM
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Question:
17/12/2010 01:56:50 AM
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Dirty half dozen and genre challenges for me
17/12/2010 12:14:00 PM
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As always, I won't succeed at the 50 book challenge, but the others...
20/12/2010 07:05:30 AM
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I think you missed a trick here.
30/12/2010 09:19:20 AM
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More questions
16/01/2011 08:39:01 PM
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Re: More questions
16/01/2011 08:48:09 PM
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