What I'm Reading Now: Body of Lies
I really expected to be less than thrilled by this novel and even contemplated skipping it altogether. After all, I'm not the biggest Scott/Crowe fan (I hated Gladiator, yup I said it and I feel better), and I'm not in the least bit excited for the movie so why bother with a book about the CIA and foreign operations and other political conspiracies that I have no room for in my brain this election year? But I picked it up anyway, just to read a few chapters and see if I could stick with it and it turned out that I could.
Book to Film: How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
I’m not quite sure how Toby Young’s life story came to be a book or a movie, but luckily they got Simon Pegg to translate Young’s arrogance into comedy.
The Book:
Reading this book made me angry. Throughout Toby Young’s memoirs you want to reach through the pages and strangle him for being such an enormous idiot.
What I'm Reading Now: The City of Ember
I picked this book up at a Borders that was going out of business a long time ago on the vague notion that it was being made into a film and haven't thought about it since. Even in my great stack of books, I seriously considered skipping it, especially since there are three book to film adaptations coming out next weekend and two the following weekend. But I picked it up anyway when I saw the big print that's used so often in Children's Lit and figuring I needed a break from some of the heavy stuff I've been reading.
An I Am Legend Prequel?
Rumors have been abundant, but Variety confirmed today that Will Smith will reprise his role as the scientist Robert Neville in an I Am Legend prequel. The film will "chronicle the final days of humanity in New York before a man-made virus caused a plague that left Smith’s character the lone survivor among a mutated mob in the city." Is it just me, or did we already see this stuff in the first film?Book to Film: Appaloosa
I’m a sucker for a good western. There’s something about the slow southern drawl, the sweeping desert beauty, the tough guys on horses, and the intensity of a good showdown that I find so engaging.
The Book:
Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch are two gunman who come to the town of Appaloosa to lay down order and reign in the terrible Randall Bragg who murdered the sheriff and instills terror upon the town.
What I'm Reading Now: Blindness
José Saramago's Nobel Prize winning novel is one amazing piece of work. The flow of the novel is so strong; it reads like free writing with very little punctuation and pauses. It's very visual while offering a glimpse into the frantic and horrifying minds of the blind.
What I'm Reading Now: Appaloosa
Currently I'm plowing through the 2005 Robert B. Parker novel which inspired the Ed Harris western due out September 17th. So far, I'm bowled over by how much this book reads like a classic western.
Adaptations for Fall/Winter 2008
Here's a list of all the adaptations being released between now and the end of the year based off of Entertainment Weekly's Fall Movie Preview. Release dates are subject to change: September 9/5 Bangkok Dangerous (based on the 1999 film) 9/12 Towelhead (based on the novel by Alicia Erian) The Women (based on the 1939 film) 9/17 Appaloosa (based on the novel by Robert B. Parker) 9/19 The Duchess (based on the biography Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire by Amanda Foreman) A Thousand Years of Good Prayers (based on the short story by Yiyun Li) 9/26 Blindness (based on the novel by José Saramago) Choke (based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk) Miracle at St.Book to Film: The Kite Runner
Maybe you should brace yourself, because most people will hate what I have to say...
The Book:
Hugely popular and considered one of the best books of 2006, this is the story of Amir, who witnesses something horrific happen to his best friend, Hassan, and does nothing, then tries to redeem himself by returning to Afghanistan many years later to help Hassan’s son. I know that I’m hugely in the minority here when I say that I really disliked this book.
Book to Film: I Am Legend
This blockbuster was actually based on a short 50's sci fi novel by cult writer Richard Matheson, which has been adapted to film three times now, though upon comparison you may never have known.
The Book:
A great, quick little novel that puts a unique spin on the age old vampire story. In Richard Matheson’s world, vampires are the product of a virus that’s been around for centuries, spawning all the myths and fables.
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