Merry Generic Winter Day-Off With No Religious Content

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
So, in no case did you see any of the movies before you read the respective books.

Even still, I disagree with you (not your experience, of course). It makes no sense to me to watch any movie before you've read the book. Why picture the movie and characters using someone else's imagination? All you're doing is replaying the movie in your mind.

And I didn't think the Lord of the Rings was all that dense. Ulysses is dense (and long). The Lord of the Rings is just long.

TM

In general, I totally and completely agree with you. I was just searching for the one exception in my experience which really isn't an exception.

It generally doesn't make any sense to me to see a movie before reading the book either, which is why I raced to finish the first one before the movie came out. And more things happen in the second two books (in my reading of them at any rate) to move the pace along considerably.

But the first movie inspired me to want to find out what happens next. Whereas the first book was a chore for me to get through.

(I've since reread all three (I alternate Christmas breaks by rereading the books or rewatching the movies, this year was a movie year) and I don't mind the first one at all now, but again, I think it's because I learned to read Tolkien.)

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
Tolkien

Has anyone on this board read The Silmarillion? (Not me.)

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Has anyone on this board read The Silmarillion? (Not me.)

I read the Hobbit for school. I read the trilogy, forced through it, because I thought I should. Then I read the first 2 pages of The Silmarillion.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Has anyone on this board read The Silmarillion? (Not me.)

It is one of many unread books on my bookshelf that I promise myself that I'll get around to someday. (I have an entire section of my library full of these books.)

[robustpuppy]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
It is one of many unread books on my bookshelf that I promise myself that I'll get around to someday. (I have an entire section of my library full of these books.)

How many of the unread books are those you think you should read, rather than ones you want to read?

I jettison the shoulds and only keep the wants. That way, when I see them on my bookshelf, I don't feel guilty.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

AON, here's a great bit about hockey fisticuffs for you puckheads.

[Pretty Little Flower]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
I read the Hobbit for school. I read the trilogy, forced through it, because I thought I should. Then I read the first 2 pages of The Silmarillion.

I only read the Simarillion when I was learning Elvish.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Pretty Little Flower
I only read the Simarillion when I was learning Elvish.

Apropos of Hank's little mishap with "Thunderbird" and "Thurgreed," I initially read this post as if "read" were the present tense of the verb -- to wit, pronounced "reed" -- and not the past tense -- to wit, pronounced "red" -- and so I was going to dash off a short post lightly mocking Flower's grammer in a good-natured way. Instead, the confusion was mine.

Ah, the hijinks on this board.

[nononono]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Has anyone on this board read The Silmarillion? (Not me.)

Yes, when I was about 11. I have no recollection of it other than that I did finish it.

[sunnybunny]

Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
That could be the worst advice she's gotten yet. I can't think of one movie where that makes sense.

TM

I can think of one and ONLY one:

A Room With A View

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Has anyone on this board read The Silmarillion? (Not me.)

My dad read it years ago (when I was a wee tot and he'd just finished reading the entire series of Lord of the Rings to us at bedtime) and didn't heartily recommend it. I think he liked it, but he wasn't sure that I would -- I guess its appeal is limited.

[nononono]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
I can think of one and ONLY one:

A Room With A View

I bought myself the deluxe DVD of that for Christmas. I loved that movie when I was 18, was so hot for Julian Sands, and have spent the last 18 years wondering why, why, why he is such a wooden actor and why he doesn't ever evolve, when I wanted him to succeed so much. Having seen him just the other night in the last 10 minutes of one of the L&O series reruns, though, he is still yummy. But the delivery kills me.

I am pretty sure I read the book after, and neither interfered with my enjoyment of the other.

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Buck
Frau Paigow was and is entertaining. Adder is funny like eating a shit sandwich without condiments is funny.


Hi Spanky! Where's my salt lick?

I thought this was my sock. Weird.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Has anyone on this board read The Silmarillion? (Not me.)

I've tried. Didn't get very far.

[greatwhitenorthchick]

Originally posted by Shape Shifter
I thought this was my sock. Weird.

It wasn't me!