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MIND MELD: What Makes a Successful SciFi/Fantasy Book Adaptation? Why Do Some Fail?

2008-09-17 00:29:25 by John in SF Signal
 
Books and visual media (TV/film) are different, so telling the same story in each must inherently be different. But some TV/Film adaptations of sf/f books succeed better than others Q: What makes a successful sf/f book adaptation? Why do adaptations sometimes fail Read on to see a variety of viewpoints...and be sure to tell us your opinion...
 
Tags: science fiction, science fiction quotations, science fiction novels, adaptation, science fiction films, short story, short, short film, book adaptation
 
 
 
 
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Book and Film: The Shining

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2007-12-28 08:00:00 by Jonathan Lapper in Cinema Styles
...book / film comparison of the two. I thought, "Hey I did that and I enjoyed it. I should do more book / film comparisons." So I have a few in mind that I'd like to do but to start it off I thought I'd reprint this old post first. So without further ado, here is my book/film comparison of The Shining , book by Stephen King, film by Stanley...
 
Tags: book, film, boiler subplot, boiler, jack, reason jack, jack falls deeper, kubrick, damn boiler
 
 
 
 
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Ye Olde Book Tagge

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2008-01-27 00:30:00 by Jonathan Lapper in Cinema Styles
...book do you irrationally cringe away from reading, despite seeing only positive reviews Pretty much any new fiction. Wow that's a bad answer but it's the truth. When it comes to new books I'm an obsessive for non-fiction but when it comes to fiction I prefer older, more tried and true tomes. I'm not a "book of the month club" type person. I...
 
Tags: book, official book advisor, occasional book comment, book blogger, love, love billy pilgrim, library, dream library exists, books
 
 
 
 
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How to Read a Book

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2008-06-13 16:01:49 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
...book. I'd like to think that this arcane practice is familiar to many of you, but given that it seems to be going out of style in our Internet age--how many of us spend time on Facebook that might be put to better use?--I asked him for permission to post it here. Instruction Manual HOW TO READ A BOOK Things You'll Need To Get Started A book A...
 
Tags: book, contemporary book, hold book stationary, paperback book, art book, coffee table book, book begins, table, books average
 
 
 
 
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Book Reviews #89 through #95: Vacations All I Ever Wanted

2007-12-26 04:33:11 by Editor in The Watchtower of Destruction: The Ferrett's Journal
 
...Book Review #89: Fiendish Codex #1: Hordes of the Abyss Ive picked up increasingly few D&D books now that I no longer use the D20 system for my game mechanics. Thats a shame, because there was a time when D&D books satisfied both the crunchy and the imaginative bits for me they had whole landscapes I could steal as a GM, realms and monsters I...
 
Tags: book, book depends, final book, book review, beowulf, beowulf succeeds, beowulf kills, pretty lame movie, movie
 
 
 
 
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Book Reviews #86 and #87: Hentai

2007-12-11 12:44:31 by Editor in The Watchtower of Destruction: The Ferrett's Journal
 
Book Review #86: Sex Parties 101 Contrary to popular belief, my wife and I have a reasonably mundane sex life. Theres no poly in our pool, and were not swingers. Im just interested in the culture, is all But I do like reading about mundane details of bizarre lifestyles. I own a book on firebreathing. I have a book on how to become a porn star....
 
Tags: book, gay sex parties, sex parties, sex, mundane sex life, anal sex, book assumes, overwhelmingly sex-positive tome, entire book
 
 
 
 
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What's It Going to be then, eh? A Clockwork Orange: Book to Film

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2008-02-09 00:00:00 by Jonathan Lapper in Cinema Styles
...Book to Film I will be doing Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange . Previously I had done The Shining by Stephen King, adapted to the screen by Stanley Kubrick . I could have gone with another choice I suppose rather than load up on Kubrick adaptations, but I pulled the book off the shelf and the dvd from the cabinet and figured, "What the...
 
Tags: film, book, chapters, twenty chapters, twenty, twenty-first chapter, american, film version, american version
 
 
 
 
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CHUCK NORRIS SUES OVER "TRUTH ABOUT CHUCK" BOOK

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2007-12-24 18:28:00 by Cinema Retro in Celebrating Films of the 1960s & 1970s
...book The Truth About Chuck Norris withdrawn from distribution. Norris' lawsuit also lists Penguin publishers as co-defendants. At first glance, it might seem that the martial arts icon is being a bit thin-skinned. Spector's book is an obvious farce that centers on web-based Paul Bunyan-like tall tales relating to his image as a seemingly...
 
Tags: chuck norris, chuck, norris, chuck norriss house, chuck norris withdrawn, enhance norris, implies norris, book, author ian spector
 
 
 
 
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Mini-review: National Treasure 2: Book Of Secrets (Blu-Ray)

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2008-07-09 04:01:52 by Steve McGrath in 2012movies.net
...book-of-secrets-blu-ray National Treasure 2: Book Of Secrets is the second movie in the National Treasure franchise. It's a movie that was not available in English at the theater when it came out What is National Treasure 2: Book Of Secrets The Gates family must clear the name of one of their ancestor that was called a traitor. To that end,...
 
Tags: book, national treasure, national treasure book, secrets, national treasure franchise, secrets blu ray, blu ray, secrets bluray, movie
 
 
 
 
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Lent Day 4 Florida Center for the Book presents "The Maltese Falcon"

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2008-02-09 20:55:27 by Editor in