What are you reading?

[Designer]

C's get degrees

The "C" students usually end up owning the company. They are the ones hiring the "A" students.

Sadly, that holds true for education administrators as well :banghead:

So true!

 

[Tiller]

So true!

What about B students?

 

[Designer]

So true!

What about B students?

One of those became President.

 

[runnah]

I recently read the wiring diagram for a 06 subaru impreza.

I didn't expect the twist ending!

 

[Devinhullphoto]

Doctor sleep by Stephen King. A continuation of the Shinning. Kinda.

 

[CoBilly]

Just finished the "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" trilogy. I was pleasantly surprised as I didn't really have any expectations of it when I started.

Now I'm reading "The Hunger Games". A friend recommended it so I'll check at least the first one out

 

[Devinhullphoto]

Just finished the "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" trilogy. I was pleasantly surprised as I didn't really have any expectations of it when I started. Now I'm reading "The Hunger Games". A friend recommended it so I'll check at least the first one out

I read the hunger games in less than a week before the first movie. They were good. Don't judge from the movie. Lol

 

[peter27]

I've just started reading Siegfried Sassoon's Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man for the umpteenth time. I love this book.

 

[Newtricks]

Currently reading "Rainbow Mars" ~ Larry Niven, again. I've been digesting "Larousse Gastronomique" by Prosper Montagne (1961 English translation) on and off for about ten years, recently started working on "The Way To Cook" by Julia Child and have been thinking about starting "Escoffier: The complete guide to modern cookery."

 

[CoBilly]

Just finished the "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" trilogy. I was pleasantly surprised as I didn't really have any expectations of it when I started. Now I'm reading "The Hunger Games". A friend recommended it so I'll check at least the first one out

I read the hunger games in less than a week before the first movie. They were good. Don't judge from the movie. Lol

I haven't seen the movie but I would never do that. Every book-based movie I've ever seen has been awful. The Swedish produced movies around "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" are on Netflix so I decided to give them a go, what a terrible idea that was. It was a 6 part series and I could only make it through 4 of them. The first two weren't too horrifying but the 3rd and 4th were like some crappy lifetime series

 

[Devinhullphoto]

I haven't seen the movie but I would never do that. Every book-based movie I've ever seen has been awful. The Swedish produced movies around "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" are on Netflix so I decided to give them a go, what a terrible idea that was. It was a 6 part series and I could only make it through 4 of them. The first two weren't too horrifying but the 3rd and 4th were like some crappy lifetime series

Harry Potter made a good transition.

 

[cgipson1]

Currently reading "Rainbow Mars" ~ Larry Niven, again. I've been digesting "Larousse Gastronomique" by Prosper Montagne (1961 English translation) on and off for about ten years, recently started working on "The Way To Cook" by Julia Child and have been thinking about starting "Escoffier: The complete guide to modern cookery."

Niven is always good! I also like the Niven / Pournelle books... they make a good team!

 

[Josh66]

I read that Dexter book in like 2 days... Reading Dean Koontz's Watchers now - half way through it (exactly 50%, according to my Kindle). Pretty good so far!

Up next will be Why Nations Fail, by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson.

 

[Big Mike]

I haven't seen the movie but I would never do that. Every book-based movie I've ever seen has been awful. The Swedish produced movies around "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" are on Netflix so I decided to give them a go, what a terrible idea that was. It was a 6 part series and I could only make it through 4 of them. The first two weren't too horrifying but the 3rd and 4th were like some crappy lifetime series

Harry Potter made a good transition.

My wife is huge Harry Potter fan...she has read the books many, many times. She hates the movies because she feels they did a terrible job translating them to the big screen.

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.

 

[Josh66]

Most of the books are fairly long, which makes it hard to fit into a movie format.

A screenplay is typically one minute of screen time per page - so you can image how much they would have to cut out of a book to condense it down to 90-150 minutes. That's why the book is nearly ALWAYS better.