As you may know we have an undecided category of books, that is, October's books into movies theme. Well I think it is time to consider our options and I would like to be the first to nominate a possible candidate. How about... "Brideshead Revisited" by Evelyn Waugh? Yes, Dears, this book is by one of my favorite authors and one I have yet to read if you can imagine it and (to top all) the movie is scheduled to release September 18! Well, allowing for delays, and assuming that this might be the ultimate birthday present to myself... I think the timing is only too wonderful. So here is my nominee. Are there any objections?
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Is it too early for a debate? The October Books
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Omg I concur!!!! Because I was TOTALLY going to suggest this too!! how weird. Like for real, yesterday I read an article on this book being remade into a movie and I was like - oooh, I think I want to read that for the movie month. So yes, that is what we shall read.
And I need to go to the library and recheck out A Handful of Dust so I can finish it. I'll do that once I finish reading Jude the Obscure.
I think this sounds pretty interesting as well. I think they made the movie hoping to sort of piggy back on people's fascination with Atonement, but, whatever, I'm game.
Yeah - I agree that the trailer makes the movie look almost too much like atonement but I feel like, perhaps biased with love for Waugh, that this story will be much more fulfilling as far as character goes and that it has more potential for tongue in cheek humor, and that it is about humanity and morality unlike atonement which was more of a narrational experiment made excusable by hiding it under the premise of a story of love and war. Instead, this will BE a story of love and war and won't be so authorially self-indulgent.
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