What are you reading?

[Government Man]

I just finished reading "A Short History of the Anglo-Saxons". Everybody died at the end. That tends to happen in the books I read.

[Pawbah]

Just finished reading From the Dust Returned. Now I'm reading Twilight, because a friend said I should.

[jekylljuice]

Originally Posted by Government Man

I just finished reading "A Short History of the Anglo-Saxons". Everybody died at the end. That tends to happen in the books I read.

Oh jeez, now you've ruined the ending for me.

[Medikor]

I finished "I Am America (And So Can You)" not too long ago. Now I can catch up with my Naruto reading! I'm on volume 20 right now.

[some guy you dont know]

Originally Posted by Government Man

I just finished reading "A Short History of the Anglo-Saxons". Everybody died at the end. That tends to happen in the books I read.

thats because you have a good taste in books

touching spirit bear, again.

Spoiler Below

cole got mauled by a bear and almost died. but that was a while ago and now he is back at the detention center. he is going back to island next chapter, so that is kinda cool.

[jekylljuice]

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

I'm now about 2/3 of the way through. Brilliant stuff, it surpasses Northern Lights, I'd say, whilst taking the storyline in a highly intriguing and completely unexpected direction.

Actually, it's painfully obvious by now where the adaptation of The Golden Compass went wrong, for not only did they rearrange a huge portion of the original narrative (clumsily, I might add), but they omitted quite possibly the most powerful and dramatic scene, which takes place at the end of the book. They...er...I...grrrr...I have no idea how they expect to handle things if they're intending to go on and adapt the Subtle Knife.

Well, don't let the Spectres bite.

[AerostarMonk]

Originally Posted by jekylljuice

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

I'm now about 2/3 of the way through. Brilliant stuff, it surpasses Northern Lights, I'd say, whilst taking the storyline in a highly intriguing and completely unexpected direction.

Actually, it's painfully obvious by now where the adaptation of The Golden Compass went wrong, for not only did they rearrange a huge portion of the original narrative (clumsily, I might add), but they omitted quite possibly the most powerful and dramatic scene, which takes place at the end of the book. They...er...I...grrrr...I have no idea how they expect to handle things if they're intending to go on and adapt the Subtle Knife.

Well, don't let the Spectres bite.

They filmed the last part of the book. The studio cut it out for fear of turning off audiences cut it out. What's funny is had they actually had left well enough alone and let Chris Weitz go with his original vision the movie probably would've been quite successful And don't worry, you'll never see anything adapted from His Dark Materials on the big screen again. Flop doesn't even begin to cover how much New Line lost from this venture.

For what it's worth I still think they were better with a failed first movie than a franchise that pissed off a ton of people by movie 3.

[the beninator!!]

i'm just starting les miserables

[some guy you dont know]

i just finished touching spirit bear. I didnt really get the ending, but it was still kinda cool.

[jekylljuice]

I'm now about half way through the Amber Spyglass, the last in the Dark Materials trilogy. Thus far, I'm finding it nothing less than an enjoyable continuation of the previous two novels, though I suppose there's still time for Mr. Pullman to spring a few unpleasant surprises on me.

Originally Posted by AerostarMonk

They filmed the last part of the book. The studio cut it out for fear of turning off audiences cut it out. What's funny is had they actually had left well enough alone and let Chris Weitz go with his original vision the movie probably would've been quite successful.

Yeah, I recently saw the trailer for the Golden Compass again, and I noticed that it contained a few brief glimpses of the excised climax. For what it's worth, my sympathies for the adaptation have increased in some fields. At least they did a good enough job with the casting.

From what I can make out, TGC did reasonably well overseas, so it's still up in the air as to whether further adaptations will be considered viable. Weitz claims that if it goes ahead, he hopes to restore the deleted conclusion and plans to be a lot less compromising with the remaining novels.