Larian Studios Forums General Chat Most hated books?

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I dunno. Reading for school was never a problem. There ware always at least one or two books on the list that I had read before. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> So I never cared.
Children should discover books again by being very gently shown that there's more than their gameboy, X-box, tv, or wathever.
Before they start going to the movies regular. I remember I always prefered the book over the movie.
Becouse I already formed my opinion about all characters in the book. When you see a movie based on the book later and the director, actor,... changed everything... it just don't fit your idea/fantasy about it anymore. And you don't like it so much.
Movies never can replace the written word becouse your fantasy has to create the chars. while in movies they are shown to you.

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i agree that the book is almost always better. one of my exceptions, though, is the shawshank redemption, by stephen king. the movie developed on the book (or short story, which it actually is). so much more happened in the movie, and it was more intense. the imagery the movie provided was incredible.
of course, i saw the movie before i read the story, which may have something to do with it. but i really liked the things the movie changed.

I can think of another example where the movie is probably better than the book. The movie that comes to mind is Firestarter. It was originally a book by Stephen King. I thought the book was boring but the movie was better. I also couldn't understand Dune by Frank Herbert but I'm willing to bet that the movie was better too.

Actually the book was "Twelfth Night" a little paper-back i hated well! Couldn't make heads or tails, but then again that was way back! Now they have help for this kinda stuff:
http://www.shakespeareessays.com/list.shtml#ov-twelfth-night
If they had this back in the dark ages i woulda been a writer <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

I generally tolerate school-forces-me-to-read books. The keyword, of course, is tolerate. Of Mice and Men, though, was one of the hardest to grit my teeth and go through. (Note: Yes, I was and am an omnivorous bookworm. Most classics, however, are simply blargh in my eyes.)

DQueene: I agree, so long as the kids are reading something.Having just finished X-Men dark pheonix id have to say that id like kids to read comics rather than nothing at all <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Winterfox:
With a lot of the "classics" its a sign of the changing times. Back then, to be considered serious about your art, you had to say in 500 words what you could have said in 10.

I dont need every single mote of dust described in intimate detail, my imagination is sharp and vivid and can fill in the gaps just fine, just tell me what I need to know and lets get on with it already <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Oh yes. This is one reason I consider reading LOTR an ordeal, the poetry and songs aside. (They are of course very beautiful, but I have no appreciation whatsoever for poetry.)

Salmen Rushdi: If your reading this that whole Budha thing was a joke ok?

You probably gave him an idea. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />

What I particularly dislike in a Literature course is they make you read these stories and then they want you to figure out what the author was really alluding to. The story buried in the story. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/suspicion.gif" alt="" /> I want to know how they (the Lit professors know what an author who lived 100 years ago was thinking <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/silly.gif" alt="" />). I think one was a real cute story by Mark Twain (??) about "The Frog from Calaberous (??) County" Or something like that and we had to analyze it to death! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> Torture, pure torture.

Its impossible to know what the heck they were thinking. I recently read the poem The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Lord Tenyson, I later read an explanation of the poem by him and I never in my wildest imaginings would have guessed thats what it was about. (I thought it was about a cursed woman locked up in a tower, but apparently it was a metaphor for artistic endevour).

That's the point I think. Writers and artists don't put their work out there and list the reasons why they did it like a,b,c etc. You are free to interperet it the way you want to. That's what I do anyway...
Trying to explain this to an english-majoring friend of mine was of course difficult.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Mandrake - the actual interpretation was by A.L.T????
That makes me so sad! I like the idea of it just being what it was written as, you know what i mean?
Have you ever hear Loreena McKinnit sing it - wow!

Loreena McKennit singing it is what made me want to read the poem <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />. I much prefered it when I thought it was just about a cursed woman in a tower too.

Loreena is amazing. I love her redition of Dante's Paryer (The tempest -- Shakespear) As well as the Highwayman.

I like her too. Dante's prayer is great, check out The Old Ways, In The Springtime and The Book Of Secrets. (If you havent already <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />)

Ya, i have heard them - own all her discs. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

*hums The Mystic's Dream under her breath* Indeed. Loreena McKennitt rocketh.

anything shakespeare, and anything joseph conrad.