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Reads to …er, Reels: War of the Worlds
“…coming this way, about twenty yards from my ri—” Tonight I turned off the lights and put on a recording of Orson Welles’ 1938 radio dramatization of H.G. Wells’ (confusing, that) The War of the Worlds. According to a popular … Continue reading
Reads to Reels: Great Expectations
“Hallo! Here’s a church. Let’s go in. Hallo! Here’s some gloves. Let’s put `em on! Hallo! Here’s Ms. Skiffins. Let’s have a wedding!” I’ve never done a reels this close on the heels to a read before, but there’s no … Continue reading
Reads to Reels: The Time Machine
Showing up late for a dinner is bad enough, but when a man is the host? Still worse, he stumbles in looking like he’s been run down by a carriage, and with a wild tale of having traveled through time … Continue reading
Reads to Reels: 2001 A Space Odyssey
“You can tell who read the book (2001) before they watched the movie”, said a friend of mine, because they’re the only ones in the theater who aren’t asking, ‘What was THAT?’” at its end. 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the … Continue reading
Reads to Reels: The Last Kingdom
Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Stories series begins with a young boy losing his father and brother to a Viking raid. Incensed, the child attacks them on his own – and as amuses the lord leading the invasion that he adopts the … Continue reading
Reads to Reels: The Martian
It has been seven weeks since I ran out of ketchup. Last week I stopped at Books-A-Million while waiting for the 3:00 showing of The Martian, and thought of purchasing a shirt — “THE BOOK WAS BETTER THAN THE MOVIE” … Continue reading
Reads to Reels: Starship Troopers
C’mon, you apes ! You wanna live forever? Robert Heinlein’s Starship Troopers combined intelligent speculation about the future of space warfare and controversial if thoughtful political philosophy; Paul Verhoeven’s Starship Troopers does not. The dramatization … Continue reading
Reads to Reels: Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice has been subjected to several dramatizations, but the 2005 movie starring Kiera Knightly is my first. I only finished the book a day or two before watching the movie, and indeed looked for the movie because I wanted … Continue reading
Reeds to Reals: The Hunger Games (No Spoilers)
In the not-too-distant future, civilization as we know it is long-vanished, replaced by a sprawling empire centered on North America that murders children for sport. To punish its twelve constituent districts for past rebellion, the government of Capitol forces them … Continue reading
Reads into Reels: Timeline
Book Review Chris is a twenty-something guy with the hots for Kate, an archaeology student who is studying under Chris’s dad, The Professor. But smitten as she is by the world of medieval France, Kate won’t give Chris the time of day. … Continue reading
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