Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for November 06, 2008

Ball’s in your court now, Val (though it’s an easy lob back for point).

Indeed, a time-honored tradition of barely making scraping by with a D-.

Don’t forget “Cliff’s notes”.

It doesn’t work. The teacher’s onto it. And movies always change the story from what’s in the book and cuts scenes to fit into the time frame so the teacher deliberately includes scenes that weren’t in the movie on the test. This is a good way to flunk your test Holly.

I’m a reader, so I always loved reading the assigned books. I have to read a book for class? Oh hurt me, throw me in that briar patch!

Oops, I forgot Holly actually hit it back after a double-bounce on her side (so Val doesn’t even HAVE to return it).

I always got extra for pointing out differences between the book and the movie, showing I had done both.

I had one teacher who had, as an exam question, “If you were a film director, how would you shoot the Wild Hunt from Mabinogion?”

runar says:

I always got extra for pointing out differences between the book and the movie, showing I had done both. I had one teacher who had, as an exam question, “If you were a film director, how would you shoot the Wild Hunt from Mabinogion?”

I like how that teacher thought. I’m not familiar with that book. We stuck to ‘Moby Dick’, ‘Manhattan Transfer’, ‘David Copperfield’, etc.

gee… I remember my English Teacher Specifically warned us the the TEST would exclude all material covered by Cliff Notes…

I am a reader too. I loved David Copperfield-the book and the movie Freddie Bartholomew was a great cast for the role of Copperfield as a child.

I’m a reader too!

You can’t because Hollywood is notorious for screwing up book-to-movie adaptations and changing them so much to make them “more interesting” that half the time they have hardly anything to do with the book anymore. Yes, there was a submarine named Red October, but…