What book u reading at the moment?

[urgeok2]

just finished Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade runner)

very different from the movie. i have to admit i like the direction the movie took .. perfectly understandable - the book would have been unfilmable.

the movie took a much less cluttered, more conservative approach that i can appreciate. (they cast the movie better then i cast the book in my mind)

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by urgeok2

just finished Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Blade runner)

very different from the movie. i have to admit i like the direction the movie took .. perfectly understandable - the book would have been unfilmable.

the movie took a much less cluttered, more conservative approach that i can appreciate. (they casted the movie better then i casted the book in my mind)

the book has a very "i went to work today, and some crap happened" feel to it, and i found it very unsatisfying.

[urgeok2]

Originally Posted by Vodstok

the book has a very "i went to work today, and some crap happened" feel to it, and i found it very unsatisfying.

i could see what the book was getting at - and i think the movie captured it in a far simpler way (life is sacred - all life)

but the book felt .. sort of cluttered. aimless in places.

i'm sure i'm prejudiced by seeing the film first - but it's still a testament to an excellent film.

[jenna26]

Duma Key by Stephen King

[Vodstok]

Originally Posted by urgeok2

i could see what the book was getting at - and i think the movie captured it in a far simpler way (life is sacred - all life)

but the book felt .. sort of cluttered. aimless in places.

i'm sure i'm prejudiced by seeing the film first - but it's still a testament to an excellent film.

shows ridley scott can make great a movie, even if it comes from a mediocre book.

i had the opposite feeling when i read starship troopers. I think heinlen's book was awesome, and i dont know what the hell verhoven was doing, but he and the guy who wrote robocop took the names and the general fact that there was war with "bugs" and ran off on their own wild tangent.

[Doc Faustus]

Originally Posted by urgeok2

i could see what the book was getting at - and i think the movie captured it in a far simpler way (life is sacred - all life)

but the book felt .. sort of cluttered. aimless in places.

i'm sure i'm prejudiced by seeing the film first - but it's still a testament to an excellent film.

I'd like to see a happy medium between the two. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is a bit more trippy and less action centered, which I was into.

[Doc Faustus]

Dr. Identity by D. Harlan Wilson. It's a cool, surreal, humorous bizarro romp through a pop culture poisoned wasteland of a future. It's like Vonnegut on acid.

[jenna26]

T is for Trespass by Sue Grafton

[SamCostello]

I just finished Master of Reality, by John Darnielle. Darnielle is the main guy behind the band The Mountain Goats. It's his book about Black Sabbath’s album of the same name. Part of the 33 1/3 series of small books about albums. A good installment of the series, written from the perspective of a teenager locked into a residential treatment facility against his will.

Sam

[Geddy]

My First Movie By: Stephen Lowenstein.