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I’m 46 years old, male, from the United States. I’ve been a DailyLit member since January 13, 2009.
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Night had barely fallen, the sun a still burning orange through the black silhouettes of the trees. The streetlights were flickering into life just to wink out again. The air had gotten colder, more than she’d expected. She’d left her coat in the Mazda; she wrapped her arms around herself.
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What happens when you walk out of darkness, into blazing sunlight?
Light blinds, sometimes only for an instant, sometimes for a painfully long moment. If we're in a situation when we desperately need to see – driving out of a long tunnel, for instance – the blinding light can be terrifying.
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This is addictive!
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After church we gathered for Christmas dinner; my parents told a story that nobody told me before.
“On the day before Thanksgiving, the phone rang. My father answered it.
“’But--you're dead!’ the voice said.
“’No, I'm not.’
“’The caller proceeded to have hysterics. ‘You're dead! Dead! DEAD!’ she repeated.”
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Sunday morning we met a newlywed couple. She was petite, and wore a flouncy skirt and sandals. He had a good-natured, goofy grin, and could have passed for an overgrown fourteen-year-old boy. She sat up very straight; he lounged. She watched the preacher carefully, expression serious; he waved at latecomers.
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A teenage couple, at the road’s edge. Oblivious to the cars whizzing past, shaking with anger, she faced the boy she berated. He had a faint, humiliated smile.
“He's going to push her…" I said, just as Jonathan said, “She's going to get killed standing in the road like that!”
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Another morning. A woman with long russet hair, disheveled, sweater clasped against the chill, waiting for the school bus with several children who weren’t her own. She smiled sleepily at the boys and girls, all happy to see the mommy at the bus stop keeping watch until the bus came.
Question of the Week - Question of the Week #8: Which books make good movies?
My opinion, for what it's worth, is that no movie will ever be able to capture what we read in a book, simply because our imaginations are each completely different! The director of even the best adaptations will never, ever present a story the way I interpreted it in my mind. That's why Stephen King books are rarely successful as movies, even as miniseries ('The Stand' was King's magnum opus, but simply terrible on the small screen).
With that being said, I did like LOTR and several of Alfred Hitchcock's movie translations of some pretty obscure books.
Worst? Runaway Jury!