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[mandie_rw]

If I finish this last repeat tonight, I'll have met my goal and I can take tomorrow off! Come on, self! *drags feet*

I did have a copy of The Handmaid's Tale put on hold for me at the library, so it's very possible I'll swing by there tomorrow and spend the day reading, instead. Been meaning to read that for quite a while and now that they've made a show out of it, I really want to make sure I read the book first. (I'm one of those people, yes.)

Or I could finish up the walrus skirt that's still sitting around, and a pink linen skirt I unearthed today...I felt motivated to go through my bag of modern UFOs, and wow. Clearly I hadn't done THAT in a while. I am very much one to Save All The Things, but sometimes you just need to cut your losses and chuck things. The pink linen skirt was part of a dress that that weight of linen would have been wildly inappropriate for. There were also THREE cut-out dresses that I mercifully ran out of muslin to line and always meant to go back to; they were all super shiny fake-o "silk" sari fabric that I guess I didn't know any better? Or didn't care? Either way, they all went bye-bye. Really quite tragic. xD

Comments

[atherleisure.livejournal.com]

Reading the book first can go both ways - it can explain things that aren't explained well in the film version, or it can drive you nuts with what they cut and changed. Still, it's probably the best way.

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

Oh, so true! I really try not to be one of Those People, and have been able to get past book-changes and still enjoy movie adaptations may times...but I admit I still occasionally turn into one of those frothing-at-the-mouth "THAT WASN'T IN THE BOOK!!!" rage-filled individuals, LOL.

This one's going to be interesting since so much of the book only involves first-person internal monologues, which can be hard to adapt well. Can definitely go either way!

[atherleisure.livejournal.com]

It can be hard to see things cut, but you know they need to cut things to make the movie short enough. The ones that get me are when they cut stuff that seems important at the same time as they add pointless stuff - the best example I know is the dragon-chasing-Harry scene in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; it doesn't happen in the book, adds nothing to the story, and takes an awful lot of time that could be used on something that did happen in the book.

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh yes, Harry Potter's such a good example! I really like the movies, but honestly if I'd not read the books I'd be confused about a lot of the finer points of the story, since they mention a thing once and then never come back to it...and I just mentally fill it in because I know the explanation! That dragon-chasing scene always peeved me...maybe you could have taken that ten minutes of dragon time and explained just a *titch* more about the Death Eaters at the World Cup, for example? Hmph. xD

[reingle.livejournal.com]

I sooo agree with that. Seeing Memoirs of a Geisha in theaters made me want to strangle someone. And it's still a great film but the book was so much more vibrant and dramatic.

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

HEY I TOTALLY FORGOT YOU HAD AN LJ! xD

There are rare occasions in which I've thought a story translated better onscreen than on the page - but even then I like to have read the book so I'm able to make that comparison! There's just so much detail in books that you either can't translate in a visual medium, or have to cut b/c a 4-hour movie really won't make any money. Books for the win!

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

It's actually a really good book and a quick read. Don't miss the epilogue. It's a little uneasy to read it right now. But worthwhile.

[mandie-rw.livejournal.com]

Especially as a history student, I couldn't help chuckling at the epilogue. An uneasy laugh, to be sure! Really nailed the "well here's what we know about this document BUT here's what we don't!" of all my history profs. Not to mention thinking about how people will study the time we're living through right now...shaking their heads, unable to believe our backwardness? Sigh.

[padawansguide.livejournal.com]

The epilogue really surprised me and framed the whole story in such an interesting way. It also made me wish were were past this whole weird phase and were more in a "looking back on it" phase. It's alarming to feel like we're just entering it.