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[Ramin]

Whats the fun in reading a science fiction book? At least with a movie you get to see the sci-fi visuals...reading a sci-fi book is so unappealing.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

Whats the fun in reading a science fiction book? At least with a movie you get to see the sci-fi visuals...reading a sci-fi book is so unappealing.

Get the ones with pictures.

 

[Dostoevsky]

Whats the fun in reading a science fiction book? At least with a movie you get to see the sci-fi visuals...reading a sci-fi book is so unappealing.

Movies can't beat the book experience no matter what.

 

[Osman]

Not even close, only movie I preferred to its book was God father. Rest don't even come close regardless of being top notch adaptions.

 

[Hængebøffer]

I think it's a silly comparisement.

 

[icemaη]

I was watching the trailer of Arnold's next movie Sabotage a few hours ago. To find out the name of one of the actors I wiki'd the movie and found that it's loosely based on the book And Then There Was None by Agatha Christie. Picked it up and finished reading it in a couple of hours. Haven't done that in the longest time. Fun fact: the book was earlier called Ten Little Niggers. True story

 

[Völler]

Are you telling us that an Arnie movie inspired you to read? That's a first.

 

[Osman]

Agatha Christie was a required reading in middle school, read the book when it was called ten little niggers, awkward title when you were the only African in the class ( I didnt care, but some of the girls were all "offended" on my behalf) But her books is pretty much why I started reading.

 

[Völler]

Agatha Christie was a required reading in middle school, read the book when it was called ten little niggers, awkward title when you were the only African in the class ( I didnt care, but some of the girls were all "offended" on my behalf) But her books is pretty much why I started reading.

Oh, and Agatha Christie sounds much more fun than that we were reading at that time.

 

[Ramin]

Movies can't beat the book experience no matter what.

Not even close, only movie I preferred to its book was God father. Rest don't even come close regardless of being top notch adaptions.

I'm not disagreeing with you guys, but I was specifically talking about science fiction books. It's not something I'd ever want to read.

 

[GordoDeCentral]

I'm not disagreeing with you guys, but I was specifically talking about science fiction books. It's not something I'd ever want to read.

lazy imagination, the setting might be sci-fi but the content in the good ones obviously transcends that

 

[Tommy]

Agatha Christie was a required reading in middle school, read the book when it was called ten little niggers, awkward title when you were the only African in the class ( I didnt care, but some of the girls were all "offended" on my behalf) But her books is pretty much why I started reading.

the fuck

 

[Olivaar]

If you haven't read the Exorcist (I know its old), check it out and then watch the movie. The book freaks the living crap out of you.

 

[HelterSkelter]

Fight Club.

Somehow the book just doesn't seem to be quite as good as the movie,which is a first as far as i'm concerned.In almost every other case,the book has always outdone the movie.Godfather was the other book where the movie was just as good if not better.Although it kind of depends on which one you came across first.For both Fightclub and Godfather,i saw the movies before i read the book.So that kind of developed a subconcious bias towards the movie even though the books were released earlier and carry the story in it's original form.

 

[Quetzalcoatl]

That's also true with American Psycho for me. Preferred the movie, maybe cus I saw that before reading.

 

[Vlad]

The Idiot, Dostoyevsky - terrific book.

 

[Nzoric]

The Idiot, Dostoyevsky - terrific book.

 

[Mr Chocolate]

Yeah i prefer the Godfather movie to the books, but both are great

 

[Vlad]

Continuing with Russian literature this week; next on the list is Crime and Punishment; read it some 10 years while still in high school, but Dostoyevsky never gets old.

The Idiot is remarkable book btw, somewhat ashamed that I haven't read it before. Religion, status of women in that period, the right of individual to take his life under certain unbearable circumstance like terminal illness, superficiality of then society, along with an excellent plot contribute to the fact that this literary piece is regarded as one of the finest.