Posted by susandanziger (admin)
Jul 21, 2010 8:08 am

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• What book(s) have you read after first seeing the movie adaptation(s)?
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  What book have you read that you thought the movie adaptation improved on or was better?

  Jul 21, 2010 4:13 pm
  by Golem100

• 1. King Rat (novel by James Clavel)
  Planet of the Apes (novel by Pierre Boulle)
  All Quiet on the Western Front (novel by Erich Maria Remarque)
  2. Planet of the Apes (1968 version only)

  Jul 21, 2010 4:21 pm
  by Golem100

• Doris Lessing said, "There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, ever reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vice versa. Don't read a book out of its right time for you."
  
  Have you ever read the right book at the right time?

  Jul 22, 2010 5:25 pm
  by moengey

• @moengey: great question. I love that quote from Doris Lessing.
  @Golem100: I may save your question for around Oscar time.
  Thanks to you both!

  Jul 22, 2010 7:52 pm
  by susandanziger (admin)

• At 21, Jackie Kennedy won an essay contest by Vogue magazine answering this question-People I Wish I Had Known? Her answer was Oscar Wilde, Baudelaire, and Sergi Diaghilev. I think it would be interesting to see who dailylit readers would want to know.

  Oct 10, 2010 2:49 pm
  by dreamdust

• Love your suggestion @dreamdust. Will definitely use it. Thanks!

  Oct 10, 2010 6:42 pm
  by susandanziger (admin)

• I saw the movie of The Road (Cormac McCarthy)before reading- although disquieting- it pales in comparison to the novel. Deeply disturbing display of humanity.

  Oct 11, 2010 8:29 am
  by Sconner