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not that there is anything wrong with that
There is something wrong with that if she's going to play Lisbeth.Efffff you, Hollywood.
I liked Dragon Tattoo although I wouldn't say it's the best book I've ever read. I didn't really enjoy the second book in the series and don't plan to read the last book. The Swedish film is actually really good and the Lisbeth character is pretty accurate to the novel-I don't really see the need for a remake (apart from to make more money from it).
third book is the toughest to read so far. not as much action and lots of background stuff
I'm a little surprised that they didn't cast a bigger star in the role of Lisbeth for the Hollywood movie, but maybe that's a good thing. The character won't be overwhelmed by a celebrity persona.
I liked the book but didn't love it. I knew it was going to get good so I just skimmed the first 200 pages. If I hadn't known it was going to get good, I'd have curbed it for sure. The beginning is BO-RRRRING. Do you like films Gus? Because it was stunning. I say skip the book and see the film.
I loved Herman Hesse when I was younger. I was mildly obsessed and read just about everything, if not everything, he wrote. Siddhartha is a very clean and easy read, Gretchen, perhaps deceptively so. I don't think reading can hurt and the book is pretty short, so I say go for it. I might go back and read some of Hesse's material soon, to see how it resonates now. I haven't read him in years.
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Rooney Mara has boobs. How are they going to hide those..."
The same way Barbra Streisand hid her big hooters in Yentl?
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Hermann Hesse
John Irving
J.M. Coetzee
Michael Chabon
Isabel Allende (is she major?)
Then in another category, big name authors of what could be called classics whom I've never read.
William Dean Howells
Theodore Dreiser
Upton Sinclair
Sinclair Lewis
I kind of have this impression that John Irving was an author of the 70s and 80s and his time is past. This is probably reinforced by the movies made of his books, and the stars in them that are not so au courant.
I love John Irving and Isabel Allende. But maybe I'm not as hip as some.
i love coetzee. i have loved coetzee since i was 17. does that make me hip?
No janine you are hip whether you like coetzee or not!
I always enjoy your choices in the lyric game, Janine.
Lobstergirl wrote: "The same way Barbra Streisand hid her big hooters in Yentl? "Was Babs raped and sodomized in that film? Because it might be hard to hide them at that point.
I always liked Herman Hesse's Siddhartha.
I love John Irving. There are a couple of his more recent books that I haven't read, but the run of Cider House Rules-Hotel New Hampshire - Garp- Prayer for Own Meany was outstanding. I'd also recommend giving Chabon a chance. I've loved everything I've read of his.
I've only read Owen Meany and I was underwhelmed.
Lobstergirl wrote: "I was just thinking about major authors I have never read. Not because I am opposed to them, I just have never read them, for no good reason really. Some of them are:Hermann Hesse
John Irving
J..."
i love Irving, but also haven't read any of his more recent stuff. Siddhartha is on my to read list, not read any of t'others.
the other list, i am ashamed to say i've never even heard of any ...
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first thing i think about when i hear that name :)but i do know who fran is
Lobstergirl wrote: "I always used to get Booth Tarkington confused with Fran Tarkenton."I don't. :)
Gus, I'm glad I'm not the one who is loathe to read a book because everyone seems to be reading it. I do that with movies, too.
Me too, Jaimie. I didn't see Forrest Gump for the longest time.
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Lobstergirl wrote: "I've never seen Forrest Gump."I must have seen it five or six times. It's about the only film that I've watched and enjoyed more than twice. I'm not sure what it is about it.
You can quit holding out lg. Its really quite good.
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Can't do it.
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P.G. Wodehouse
Anthony Trollope
Nadine Gordimer
Mark Twain
Dashiell Hammett
I think I might read some Trollope some day.
Phil wrote: "RandomAnthony wrote: "Rooney Mara will play Lisbeth Salander...http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/..."
Rooney Mara has boobs. ..."
tape them down although that won't work for the sex/rape scenes...
I still would have picked Ellen Page as Lisbeth.
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Twain is the one I prolly feel guiltiest about not reading.
The New Yorker film critic Anthony Lane once said that he loved P.G. Wodehouse so much that he hadn't been able to read anything else for the past 25 years--an exaggeration, of course, but a very Wodehousian one.
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Everyone tells me he's the bestest. I guess I have a fear he might be too twee.
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Sometimes I love Anthony Lane, and other times I want to smack him for being so twee.
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There is no possible definition of twee under which Wodehouse is twee. Unless the meaning of the word has been entirely changed while I wasn'..."
Well, my impressions of him have been formed in darkness and ignorance, so you could well be entirely correct.
Gretchen wrote Do you like films Gus?
Like a fat kid loves cake.
And, no, Forrest Gump is a so-so, mildly irritating film. But I hate it because the AMPAS (the idiots who vote on the Oscars) deemed this the better film of 1994 than Pulp Fiction.
Like a fat kid loves cake.
And, no, Forrest Gump is a so-so, mildly irritating film. But I hate it because the AMPAS (the idiots who vote on the Oscars) deemed this the better film of 1994 than Pulp Fiction.
I think Forrest Gump is a good film but I went into it expecting to hate it because of all the hype. It's certainly no Pulp Fiction. But then, Pulp Fiction is no True Romance and Pulp Fiction gets way more acclaim...
which reminds me, i still haven't seen true romance.
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Rooney Mara has boobs. How they going to hide those?