What are you reading?

[MK3Brent]

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

 

[Newtricks]

The first one follows the book pretty well, but it was a short book. Most of the books are fairly long, which makes it hard to fit into a movie format.

I personally like the books and the movies, probably because I try to take each on it's own merit and avoid comparing them.

I also like both on there own merits, though I feel there where changes made in the translation that did not do Justis to the story, where sticking to the story as told in the books would not have required additional footage or lengthened the movies.

 

[limr30 3]

For the most part, I prefer the book to the movie. The necessity of cutting things out of the book usually means skipping parts of the book that add to the richness of character or plot development.

The only movies I've ever seen that come close are the Lord of the Rings movies. It still bugs me, though, that they left out Tom Bombadil.

I also usually hate it when a movie actually changes details - not just omits them - so it can 'translate' better on screen. To Have and Have Not, for example, completely changed the original Hemingway book. It sort of worked, but they each need to stand on their own because there's so little of the meaning that crosses over.

But once again, I have one exception: Planet of the Apes. The original book by Pierre Boulle had the astronauts landing on a different planet. The Marky Mark (sorry, he'll always be called that in my mind) version stuck to the ending of the astronauts escaping, landing back on Earth, only to find that the apes also took control there as well. But the Charlton Heston 1968 film adaptation? Escaping only to come upon the Statue of Liberty half buried in the sand on the beach? And realizing that they were on Earth the whole time? Absolute brilliance.

 

[MarcinFM]

Now I am reading the 3'rd volume of tactical studies prepared by the rotmistrz [ger. Rittmeister] of the 12'th uhlan regiment Mieczyslaw Biernacki, Actions of the Budionny Horse Army from 26 V to 20 VI 1920, Warsaw 1924.

Great book, with lot's of useful maps, and OdB. Also great knowledge about the 'Bolshevik's' cavalry tactics.

And afterwards I must say that at first large engagement, Polish troops of 13'th Infantry Division at Dziunkow defence position, beat nicely 11 Cavalry Division.

 

[skieur]

"Annie's Girl" an autobiography, because I know the author.

 

[JClishe]

"Surviving Home", the 2nd of a 3 part series. First is "Going Home", and the 3rd - which isn't published yet - is "Escaping Home".

It's about a guy that's a doomsday prepper and doomsday actually happens. He's about 250 miles from home on a business trip when something happens, either an EMP or a solar flare, he doesn't know what, but all electronics instantly die. Cars, electricity, communications...everything instantly goes down. He's driving on the freeway when it happens and he realizes whatever happened must be something big because all the cars on the freeway coasted to a stop at the same time. So, being a doomsday prepper, he grabs his fully stocked pack out of the trunk of his car and starts walking home. The first book is about his journey home and the 2nd book is about life at home in the reality of a world without electricity and the violence that quickly ensues between people that are prepared, like him and his family, and people that aren't and run out of food and water.

 

[PixelRabbit]

Just started Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, I've been looking forward to reading this book for a while now and my aunt just gave me her copy of it

 

[limr30 3]

Just started Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, I've been looking forward to reading this book for a while now and my aunt just gave me her copy of it

You might want to be drinking some coffee when you get to Galt's big speech

 

[Rick Waldroup]

Just started Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, I've been looking forward to reading this book for a while now and my aunt just gave me her copy of it

Stop reading it right now. You will save yourself some time and save your sanity as well. This book is meant to be read when you are young. Then, when you get older, you realize what bunch of poppycock it is.....

 

[Rick Waldroup]

The House Without a Key ​by Earl Derr Biggers

 

[Tiller]

The Remnant - LaHaye and Jenkins

 

[limr30 3]

"Therefore, I make out about the physical Pan-European of pre-adolescent female biology will gust your mind!"

Too bad it's spam because that right there is an awesome sentence.

 

[terri34 6]

"Therefore, I make out about the physical Pan-European of pre-adolescent female biology will gust your mind!"

Too bad it's spam because that right there is an awesome sentence.

That, and the "teach Korean" link in the signature - both awesomely banned!!

 

[bruchi]

Vince Flynn "Kill Shot" and Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" presently, I keep "The Complete Shakespeare" by the bed and re-read it between other books.

Big fan of Flynn, he passed away way too young, he published one more book after "Kill Shot" I read those 2 and there will be no more from him, if you are a fan of Flynn and the TV series "24" it will ne transparent where the producers STOLE the inspiration and the characters for the TV show, therw is finally a movie based ona Flynn book in the works, hope they don't mess it up as they did on the Lee Child screen version where Tom Cruise played the main character, one that in the novels is a 6 feet 4 inches tall mountain of muscle and where thisnplays a big part.

Before gettjng into the Spy, action stuff from Flynn, Brad Thor and others I was more into stuff as Henry Miller, Tostoy, Gogol, Dostoyevsky, Hemmingway, Sartre, Balzac and so on.

I do read a lot and keep around 50-100 books in queque to read and I read real paper books, can't buy into reading from a screen for more than a few pages in a sitting.

Been trying of late to read all the books by Haruki Murakami, who is a wonderful writer plus Lee Child, Stephen Hunter, Charles McCarry, Matilde Asensi and others I can't recall.

"Lost Illusions" by Balzac is a book I recommend reading to anyone hoping to make a living in the art world.


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[Josh66]

Wow - Watchers was good.

As promised, I am now reading Why Nations Fail. Just started, so I won't say much about it - but it is supposed to examine why some countries are wealthy and some are poor. What causes that, and how can we turn it around - that sort of stuff.