#the book was better

[thegoodduckfan]

One of the best things about Scrooge McDuck is that the dude is fucking unhinged and very paranoid. If he just thinks you plan to steal his money he will not hesitate to blow your brains out

#uncle scrooge #scrooge mcduck #huey dewey and louie #donald duck #carl barks #don rosa #comics #comic books #he has militray ties he can send the army to kill you #he also has a gun #I would be dead #ducktales is good but #the book was better #disney comics #disney #go read donald duck

[sncwonthebeach]

absolutely in love with how many elements from the TSOTL novel, "Clarice" adapted and explored. Like.. you'd have no idea what "How does it feel to be so beautiful?" meant UNLESS you read the novel.

#series: clarice #movie: the silence of the lambs #we were absolutely robbed man #im rereading the book whilst watching the series and everytime im like “HEY!!” #i SO appreciate a show that does its homework #again i say #all the best shows get cancelled and it's stupid #clarice starling #catherine martin #rebecca breeds #hannibal lecter #hannibal #clannibal #ardelia mapp #the book was better #in this case the book actually is better #not better than the show tho #id say they're pretty evenly matched in my enjoyment of them #i love how in depth we get into clarice's past and ptsd we get in the book #and all of that gets built upon in the series #“reesy something's happened to daddy” #AND THE HELMET THING SHE FOUND IN THE BARN??? #youd have no idea

[turkeysandyellowroses]

#the movie was good #the book was better #red white and royal blue #alex claremont diaz #henry fox mountchristen windsor #firstprince #rwrb

[the-elusive-soleil]

...this is not unlike the experience of trying to explain the Silmarillion to someone who has only seen Rings of Power

#silmarillion #the book was better #rings of power critical #trop critical #in my defense this was sent to me by my rop-watching friend to whom i tried to explain the silmarillion #it's about the LORE #sheldon webcomic #dave kellett

[propagated-fern]

04 Mar 23

I'm feeling very Theodore Finch today. As in his different identities; mine is very academic, craving a lot of knowledge recently (I'll probably research oxytocin 🧬 tomorrow)

Got a lot more revision done than yesterday—still not as much as I'd hoped, but I'm consistent with it and almost finished Geography 🌍.

I really enjoyed today actually. Got a nice breakfast with my mum 🥞, went grocery shopping and then to about 3 charity shops with her. Ate a good amount of snacks today and watched a lot of Friends. I also found my fav playlist 🎶 (for right now anyways) and it's by RougeSkye who makes incredible playlists!

#studyblr #studying #pancakes #charity shops #art #maths #physics #chemistry #oxytocin #music playlist #all the bright places #theodore finch #the book was better #sticky notes #dinosaurs #geography #a lot of tags

[lannegarrett]

When someone says the movie was better...

#readingcommunity #reading corner #reading community #readersofinstagram #reading #readersoftiktok #readers community #readers of tumblr #readers #readersoftwitter #the book was better #all the books #books #booklover #bookstagram #bookaddict #bookish #bookworm

[cheshirelibrary]

#cheshire library #bookish humor #the book was better #goodnight moon

[marsystars]

it begins.

#i literally got the books at 7:30 last night and am already on page 130 of the first book #the book was better #twihard #twilight #the twilight saga #twilight revival #twilight renaissance #yahoo

[gently-decaying-flowers]

my life is absolutely shattered

cole fucking sprouse is the guy in five feet apart?!? no way.

#eden thinks #even worse i JUST yesterday rewatched filmcoopers video about his cringe #i- #i don’t even know how to feel now #betrayed?? #the book was better

[runningoutofbooks]

The Amazing Maurice was a fun movie and I enjoyed it!

Those who made it obviously love and respect Discworld and Terry Pratchett very much. It was full of fun little Easter eggs, including a marble bust of Sir Terry himself in the mayor’s office.

However at its heart it is a kids movie. I would even use the words family friendly. They gave it fairytale vibes, more than I remember the book having (at least until the very end). There was even a cottage in the woods with a child eater inside. And they took the fear out of the story, the panic, the darkness. It was lighter, and in my opinion forced some of the comedy that Terry Pratchett made flow so easily.

Simply put it was entertaining and kept the story from the book (even if it missed the heart). I would watch it again but not in theaters.

GNU Terry Pratchett

#the amazing maurice movie #movie opinions #the book was better #but the movie wasn’t bad #the amazing maurice and his educated rodents #terry pratchett #discworld #gnu terry pratchett #now I need to reread the book #I have lots more to say and will probably post some more throughout the week

[cryptidscorvidsandcoffee]

Something that makes me cry is no one I have ever met has actually READ how to train your dragon. They don’t know. They don’t know how different it is. How rich the plot and how shallow it makes the movies seem. I just want people to draw hiccup and toothless the way they were written. Because to me they’re always the nerdy and easily scared boy and the green little dragon. ❤️

#how to train your dragon #books #the book was better #how to train your dragon book #movie vs book #idk #kinda mad actually #>:( #rant #idk if anyone will actually see this

[thatone-girly]

The casting and acting in "The Hate U Give" was terrible.

#unpopular opinion #the book was better

[kayrosebee]

Aug 13, 2023

225/365

Well I finally watched it. It would have been wayyyyyy better as a mini series. If you're planning to or have watched the movie, please do yourself a favor and read the fucking book.

The book was a million times better.

💙

#red white and royal blue #rwrb #rwrb movie #the book was better #i cannot emphasize that enough #project365 #artists on tumblr #my photos #my life #at least i watched it with my besties

[the-resident-wallflower]

I have strong feelings about the Purple Hearts movie.

I read the book and watched the movie. The movie is a horrible representation of the book. Horrible.

They did Luke so dirty and made Cassie so much "better".

It takes place in Texas. Neither protagonist has strong political views. Authors know better. Netflix wanted an "against all odds" or "we can love each other but disagree". Not about human rights Netflix!

Luke Morrow is an addict who decided after being disowned by his dad and brother, to get clean. He's on Oxy. He flushed his dealers supply (Johnno). He joins the ARMY to get clean and doesn't tell his brother or dad. The Army vs Marines is a very very different feel so is the California setting. Luke defends the military guys when he first meets Cassie by saying they may not make it back. Nothing about being patriotic. He's literally in to turn his life around.

The diner scene....the guy says something similar in the books but not exact. We're in Luke's perspective and he can see Cassie getting more mad and it's clear he doesn't share the views BUT the person talking is his CO. It's the military. Cassie leaves and he follows her worried about her and their image because they're literally breaking the law.

Cassie always sings her own songs. The movie makes her look better. She was dating the drummer of their band well after Luke comes home with his injury. Luke and Cassie gradually fall for each other sure but she was with another guy for like 50% of the book. Luke struggles with using Oxy while injured. He relapses. He has PTSD and flashbacks of closing Frankie's eyes after they're shot at (no IED).

And Luke gradually gets to get his brother and dad back. The Johnno/Cassie's Mom does happen similarly. Luke gets his Purple Heart by the skin of his teeth timeline wise because there's suspicion that they're in a fake marriage. Cassie's left the drummer by this point and leaves her show to get to Luke's Dad's to be with him to get his Purple Heart.

The book ends with Cassie and Luke saying they're going to fight the charges. No fun epilogue which was my major complaint.

Was it a fantastic book? No. Cassie was severely lacking in likeability. Luke was honestly my favorite character. He was so rawly real. The struggles of addiction, survivors guilt, and PTSD are so important to his character.

The movie is just so vastly different, it's clear it's just propaganda.

#purple hearts #luke morrow #cassie salazar #book vs movie #the book was better

[lannegarrett]

Them: I'd rather watch the movie than read the book.

Me:

#books #bookish #books and reading #books & libraries #book recommendations #book quotes #booknerd #the book was better #reading corner #reading community #readersofinstagram #reading #readersoftiktok #readers #readers community #readers of tumblr #readersoftwitter #memes #book memes

[tacanderson]

The Japanese Book, American Movie Connection

It's hard to find many Japanese books translated into English that aren't manga. Nothing against manga, I just wish more novels made their way over here. If you're interested, here's two books worth your time and one that's not Japanese, but you'll see why I included it here.

Bullet Train

Have you seen the movie Bullet Train yet? Great movie. Brad Pitt does an excellent job playing the unlucky (but really lucky), bumbling criminal. (Fun fact: the director, David Leitch (John Wick, Deadpool 2, Atomic Blond) was Brad Pitt's stunt double before he became a director.) When I saw the trailer I looked up the movie and saw that it was an adaptation of a Japanese book. So before I talk more about Bullet Train, I need to talk about a book I first read in 2014 and then re-read this year (yeah, I know, for someone who said he never rereads books, I sure reread a lot this year).

All You Need Is Kill

In 2014 the movie Edge of Tomorrow came out. Interestingly, the DVD release would change the title to Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow. As in most cases, the book usually gets it right and they should have stuck with the original book title, All You Need Is Kill. What a great name. But I can see why they wouldn't think it would work well as a major motion picture movie title.

So, in 2014 Edge of Tomorrow was released and some neighbors came back from seeing the movie (opening weekend, I think) with the above pictured book. Knowing I was interested in seeing the movie and that I was a sci-fi fan, they gave me the book. At first I thought it was one of those movie novelizations, but quickly realized it was the actually the book the movie was based on. First off, how awesome is that?

If I had one Christmas wish it would be that every time a movie was made from a book, the studio would give out free copies of the book with every opening weekend ticket. I can tell you I'd see a lot more movies in the theater if they did that.

So, I read the book and instantly fell in love with it. I went and saw the move and loved it as well. While the movie was different, I felt like they did a good job sticking to the spirit of the book. I wish the movie would have ended about 10 minutes earlier, without the Hollywood ending, so it would have been closer to the book ending, but that's okay. I get it.

So, back to Bullet Train. I had plans with some friends to go see the movie and I quickly read the book before we went. The book was great, but there was one character, The Prince, that really bothered me. He's this psychotic tween who manipulates everyone in the book. That's not actually what bothers me. What I didn't like was he'd have these long internal and external monologues about morality and how he was so much superior to everyone, and blah, blah, blah. Way too much ink was spent on these thoughts of his.

The movie didn't have this and The Prince, gender swapped and played by Joey King, wasn't nearly as annoying. And this is one of these rare instances where I'm going to say that the movie was better than the book. I still enjoyed the book, but the move was way more fun.

But this leads me to my third book.

Shibumi

When we first meet The Prince, she is reading a book called Shibumi. I hadn't heard of this book, but the cover reminded me of the cover to Shogun, which I remember my dad reading when I was a kid. I quickly jotted down the name of the book and looked it up later.

Shibumi may be my favorite new book I read this year. It was definitely the most unexpected. The author of Shibumi simply goes by the name Trevanian. As it says on the cover of my book, Trevanian was the only writer of airport paperbacks to be compared to Zola, Ian Fleming, Poe, and Chaucer.

Upon researching the book and the author, I was very surprised to learn that Shibumi was a best selling book when it was released in 1979 and between 1972 and 1983 Trevanian had five books all sell over a million copies each. Having been born in 1972, its no surprise I hadn't heard of him, but given how good the book is, and how much praise the author gets I'm surprised I hadn't heard of him until now. But I think that's all going to change. I think we're about to have a small Trevanian resurgence.

The book is being adapted into a movie. The screenplay is being adapted by Matthew Orton, who wrote episode one of Moon Knight, and it's being directed by Chad Stahelski, who has directed all three John Wick movies, as well as the upcoming fourth one. But this isn't his first movie adaptation, he also write The Eiger Sanction in 1972, which was adapted into film in 1975 starring and directed by Clint Eastwood.

Through all the success Trevanian had no one ever knew his actual name. It was a lot easier to keep your identity hidden before the internet came along. Trevanian's real name is Rodney William Whitaker. What's even more fascinating to me is that Whitaker didn't stick to one genre, even with his pen name, Travanian, he published under several different genres.

But here's the thing that impressed me. Shibumi is satire. It's such a subtle satire that it frustrated the author because most people didn't get it. I have to admit when I first started reading it I thought, "wow, this is over the top 1970's macho spy stuff." Then after a few more pages, I thought, "that can't be right, this is too well written." The text isn't subtle, but the satire is. If you want a good laugh, read the hundreds of one-star reviews on Goodreads and you'll see just how much people miss the mark on this book.

#tacs 2022 books #tacs 2022 #goodreads challenge #edge of tomorrow #all you need is kill #bullet train #the book was better #the movie was better #shibumi #trevanian #book review