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Notes & Queries: Nightingales/Bombs/Beethoven, in reply to Carol Stewart,
Hmmm.
"The Remains of the Day" I didnt see as a film, and "Atonement" I only saw partially (and didnt think I was viewing the novel, as it were.) I'll check them again, & thanks Carol-"Mr Pip" has had an...errrm...interesting second trip to the screen & I'll definitely be watching it.
There has been one other intriguing adaption from novel-to-film that I saw last year, and it could only have been done with the tech we have now: "Life of Pi"-
I gasped at the surfacing plankton-illuminated whale! (and, how else would you film the boat scenes without a c.g'd tiger?) -
Notes & Queries: Nightingales/Bombs/Beethoven, in reply to Islander,
O, do I like & esteem our fellow primates?
Yep.
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Notes & Queries: Nightingales/Bombs/Beethoven, in reply to Carol Stewart,
The movie version was an epic fail, but the novel is sensational.
Almost all adaptations of complex novels are epic fails but some books work better than others (as a kid I loved Tarzan novels but found the films hugely better! I mean the bloody little monkey turned into a chimpanzee!) I didnt...resonate with "Cloud Atlas" (I will try it again - in the cloudy future)- at the moment I've found an oldish YA novel, "The Hidden Ones" by Gwyneth Jones bloody excellent (and it could make a brillant film - provided adaptors ignored the author's mistake that Gibbie was a Siamang (she is clearly a Kloss's -or dwarf- gibbon...)- and it has a complex heroine but a linear story- and that's what you need for a good film adaptation-
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Notes & Queries: Nightingales/Bombs/Beethoven, in reply to Chris Waugh,
ealous
It is an Old Testament which was a treasure for the Scots side of my family - it was given to me to take care of - despite the fact I am an atheist- because family knew I would take care of it, and pass it along to some future family member who also would take care of it (I lurrrve Scottish pragmatism!)
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Notes & Queries: Nightingales/Bombs/Beethoven, in reply to Chris Waugh,
eah, that’s something that worries me, the whole impermanence and fragility of all this new-fangled technological stuff
That new-fangled technology is absolutely wonderful (I still cant believe I’ve got all my John Williams/Julian Bream collection on my G4 Nano. In my pocket…)
But I keep the CDs & vinyl & technology to play them, just as I keep paper copies of all my writing…and I still build my library.Books…have lasted.
Yep, I have a flashdrive with a lot of my writing on it BUT
one flash-drive failed utterly (I still had the mss so I didnt care much.)
And I have a book that dates back to the 16th century that has survived a flood and semi-charring-me, I believe in the portability et al of the new tech – and keep copies in the older techs-
o, and the speed of reading/absorbing/listening rates hasnt changed that much for humans - just the speed of certain kind of communications...
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Hard News: A Public Address public appeal, in reply to Hebe,
Just a pleasure to do something small in return for the large pleasures this place has given me. Long may it all continue- kia ora tatou katoa-
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Kia ora Heather/Jackson/Russell-
Heather, your signed copy of tbp (with a small additional enclosure - the only published prequel to tbp, also excellent for keeping hot plates off tables) will go out in Monday's postbag.
Jackson- I'm money-poor at the moment, but resource rich eh?
And Russell - this place is wonderful & so are you- cheers everyone! -
Hard News: A Public Address public appeal, in reply to Heather Gaye,
Kia ora Heather - send us an email with what you want as an inscription n& a delivcery address, and it will be on the way on Monday...cheers!
And, sorry your mum isnt around to know about it-
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Hard News: A Public Address public appeal, in reply to Heather Gaye,
Kia ora Heather-
if you donate $100 to Russell, it's your's-
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Yessy, Missy!
(And, up yer bloody nose Tau!)