Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for November 05, 2008

Reason #237 why I am glad I don’t have any children!

“Are we there yet?”

Busted!!!!

If it’s “Lord of the Rings”, I would rather watch the movie too. The same for ANY Dickens book. The man was payed by the word!

I can’t read Dickens. I tried! He uses 14 sentences when 1 will do fine.

We do these things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard…

(paraphrasing Kennedy and all)

Besides, Holly, you’ll get busted when you talk about parts where the film adaptation differs from the book.

someone did that once in my class for To Kill a Mockingbird! It was so funny as the movie left out a number of bits asked in the exam!

doctortoon says:

Not many movies measure of to the books they are based on. The movies would need to be MUCH longer to capture all the detail. (Thinking Stephen King here.)

My one exception to the ‘book is better than the movie’ rule is Stephan King’s ‘Misery’. The movie won the battle hands down. I credit Cathy Bates for that.

Reading is now overated.

reading is overated.

I want this comic in animation form from now on, because reading is clearly overrated and all that ;-)

Holly, let me direct you to this Wikipedia page I found. It’s called film adaptations#accuracy.

excuse me McPat but reading is not and never will be overrated, reading is real and encourages kids to use their imagination. Reading is wholesome and I feel bad for anyone that would just sit around and watch television and never pick up a book to actually use their brain. Also, reading can be used for life, you need to know how to read and much more to survive in this world with the little amount of jobs.

epic101, I agree with you entirely. I grew up without TV. We just read all the time. I like it.

Lucky! Think how much better my life would have been had I never got into any discussions featuring Gilligan’s Island or Three’s Company references!