Younger Readers' Books

Makes a reference to Buffy? That'd score plenty points with me! mas_wink:

Ella Enchanted!!! I just read that book last year because my best friend made me, and I loved it!!! Haven't seen the movie, yet, though. But it looks like they've changed quite a few things...

Oh my god, don't see the movie. It'll make you want to go puke somewhere. So cheesy so stupid so........AUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH!

An odd thing about the Ella Enchanted and Princess Diaries movies. Neither movie does justice to the book and there's a weird character switch. Ella is more like book-Mia, all liberal and protesting and such.

Mia's more like book-Ella all passive and kinda clumsy. Both movies star anne Hathaway (but I'm sure you knew that already) That girls gonna play princesses til she's 70 if she doesn't stop soon.

Ah, don't remind me of the movie, don't remind me. Please.

I haven't seen it, but I have NO plans on it. Just the previews alone made me want to gag. I was all, "NO! CURSE YOU, HOLLYWOOD!!! CURSE YOOOOOOOOOOOOU!!!" *fists raised to the sky, suddenly raining*

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God, I hate book-to-movie adaptions. Gag me with a spoon.

Except the Lord of the Rings...

Yeah I actually liked the LOTR movies better than the books. They didn't drag on and on and on in the really exciting parts.

When I see book 2 movie adaptations I like to point out all the little things they change. Like how Wormtongue threw out the palantir in the book Two Towers but it just came out of nowhere in the movie.

But you know what I thought was really stupid about the 1st Harry Potter movie? They took out the most important part? How can they take out Snape's potion riddle thingy then claim he was trying to protect the stone? UGH!!!!!!!!

Abarat... I picked that one up in the the bookstore. Turned it over in my hands a few times. Read the back and inside. Smelled it (don't ask, it's what I do when I try to figure out how good a book will be... it works for me), stared at the front cover, read a few lines inside.


I was really ripped in half with that one. I wasn't sure whether or not I wanted to read it. It looked good, but at the same time the front looked like Darth Vader with his mask off, so I wasn't sure if it was rip-offy or not.


What was it about?



Haha... feminist vampire... that's awesome. I'll have to look for that one.

Yes, LOTR was pretty good, and a good adaptation, I heard (don't hurt me, I tried, I really did, but they just did NOT hook me [though I did read all of "Hobbit"]).

Abarat was pretty awesome. I didn't want to read it at first for the same reason I didn't want to read Harry Potter at first (and don't even get me started on those friggen movies)--they were so popular. I just naturally stray away from popular things, unless they really suit me. Abarat ended up being great, though. I generally like everything by Clive Barker, though, so...

Yeah. You really should read it when you got some time.

Tessitore wrote:Ah, don't remind me of the movie, don't remind me. Please.

I haven't seen it, but I have NO plans on it. Just the previews alone made me want to gag. I was all, "NO! CURSE YOU, HOLLYWOOD!!! CURSE YOOOOOOOOOOOOU!!!" *fists raised to the sky, suddenly raining*

...

God, I hate book-to-movie adaptions. Gag me with a spoon.

You know its odd that this movie wasn't good because the writers also did 10 Things I hate About You which is a wonderful movie.