Thread: What are You Reading?

Non-fiction, or history, is written through the lens of that author.

The author writing that history in many ways own's that history, and by owning that version of history / events, by the necessity of that personal lens, in many ways also creates the future.

Often said, history is written by the victors.....

A Swollen Red Sun by Matthew McBride

I cracked out the Hobbit the other day. Haven't read it since I was a kid. I really noticed from reading it just how much it is a children's book. With the current movie version(s) you don't really get that impression as strongly.

James.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

I cracked out the Hobbit the other day. Haven't read it since I was a kid. I really noticed from reading it just how much it is a children's book. With the current movie version(s) you don't really get that impression as strongly.

James.

The movie version deviated too much I thought. I didn't even watch the whole movie.

Currently reading 2 books:

Originally Posted by Jimbo

I cracked out the Hobbit the other day. Haven't read it since I was a kid. I really noticed from reading it just how much it is a children's book. With the current movie version(s) you don't really get that impression as strongly.

James.

There's few and only few books that ever made it into good movie. And the good movie might have been the whole different book. And then there's few good movies out of not-so-good books.
In case of the books, i like to use the image my poor brain tells me. The writer leaves me a change of to use my own imagination.

However, having said it, if even the poor movie makes people read more then its worth of it.
As we were told in school: Reading books is always worth of it.

Originally Posted by Sailor

There's few and only few books that ever made it into good movie. And the good movie might have been the whole different book. And then there's few good movies out of not-so-good books.
In case of the books, i like to use the image my poor brain tells me. The writer leaves me a change of to use my own imagination.

However, having said it, if even the poor movie makes people read more then its worth of it.
As we were told in school: Reading books is always worth of it.

I like better whatever came first. The book or the movie. It is hard to make a good one based on the other.

Originally Posted by 32t

I like better whatever came first. The book or the movie. It is hard to make a good one based on the other.

couldn't agree more, Apart from one exception and that is Peter Jacksons visualisation of Middle Earth. I felt at home in the world he created from the first scene in The Lord Of The Rings trilogy and I am eagerly awaiting the release of the final Hobbit episode, his deviations from the books narrative have done nothing to diminish my enjoyment of the films. The overall environment couldn't have been closer to the Middle Earth I knew from the books If he had looked into my mind, I think the films are as magical as the books were to me as a child. I can only imagine Tolkien would have been impressed

Originally Posted by pixelfixed

I did read it, great book

Speaking of another excellent non-fiction book, a ways into, "Tales from the Tower of London" By Daniel Diehl,Mark P Donnelly. Incredibly interesting history of Tower of London.

"Wheelmen: Lance Armstrong, the Tour de France, and the Greatest Sports Conspiracy Ever", by Reed Albergotti and Vanessa O'Connell.

This book may well have soured me on any biography written after 1969 -- it's all about the authors' agenda, rather than about the person. I'd hoped to read about Lance's cycling... history, training, races, how-tos and tips. But no... dirt and smarmy innuendo. It's probably all true... so what.