This book changed my lifeThe Goat writes, "Some books have made a huge impact on my life." It's true. It wasn't until the b3ta mods read the Flashman novels that we changed from mild-mannered computer operators into heavily-whiskered copulators, poltroons and all round bastards in a well-known cavalry regiment.
What books have changed the way you think, the way you live, or just gave you a rollicking good time?
Friendly hint: A bit of background rather than just a bunch of book titles would make your stories more readable
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chthonic, Thu 15 May 2008, 15:11)
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Bridget Jones' DiaryI recently re-read this and was taken by surprise by quite how different it is from the movie. The film (which I watched some time after reading the book) felt *exactly* like the book in terms of character and plot, but it turns out that they'd messed with the book a lot. That, to me, is the mark of a good film adaptation: get the spirit of the book, while not being too desperate to keep to the letter of it. I quite liked Name of the Rose, and the best of the Harry Potter films is definitely the least faithful (number 3). Also the aforementioned Catch-22 - I would have said without question that the book was unfilmable, but I would have been wrong! Oh, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Lots of other examples.
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flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Tue 20 May 2008, 16:25,
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