Sunbird Posted July 20, 2016 Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 (edited) Worst film adaptation ever, hmm... I haven't seen Dune so I can't really comment on that one, but both the Percy Jackson movies totally butchered the books. Eragon was also badly adapted, but at least as just a movie it was still entertaining. The Vampire's Assistant was awful. I thought Inkheart was kinda lame but not as bad as some of the others. Also @Orlion Determined maybe it would have been more accurate if I had said "A book with no plot is not a book I'm interested in reading." Edited July 20, 2016 by Sunbird 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSC01 Posted July 20, 2016 Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 (edited) Well, I finished The Wheel of Time again. I'm moving right on to The Great Ordeal. I won't bother rereading the other five books now. The Unholy Consult comes out in one year, and there should still be two more books yet. I'll hold off on a reread. Edited July 20, 2016 by DSC01 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Who Sharded? Posted July 20, 2016 Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 16 hours ago, Dunkum said: I haven't seen it, so withholding my judgement for now, but I'm not sure anything can compete with the atrocities that are the Peter Jackson hobbit movies You must not have seen many film adaptations if you think the Hobbit movies are the worst. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaymyth Posted July 20, 2016 Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 2 hours ago, Who Sharded? said: You must not have seen many film adaptations if you think the Hobbit movies are the worst. I mean, at least all the extra material in the Hobbit adaptations were raided out of Tolkien's actual writing. Whereas other films/TV are, "Hey, let's take this well-known author's material and adapt it to the screen! Only we'll make up our own plot, change around some of the character roles, and totally change the main character's personality! It'll be great!" 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkum Posted July 20, 2016 Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 6 hours ago, Who Sharded? said: You must not have seen many film adaptations if you think the Hobbit movies are the worst. i do try to avoid them most of the time. that said its more that i really like the book, so I was way more disappointed in those films than I would be for something I don't care about quite so much. I do have to give htem credit for one thing: Martin Freeman was perfect casting fro Bilbo 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Posted July 20, 2016 Report Share Posted July 20, 2016 1 hour ago, Dunkum said: i do try to avoid them most of the time. that said its more that i really like the book, so I was way more disappointed in those films than I would be for something I don't care about quite so much. I do have to give htem credit for one thing: Martin Freeman was perfect casting fro Bilbo I would argue that most of the casting was fair to fantastic. My problems were with the plot, side stories, and a lot of the action. In particular, the elf-dwarf romance, Azog's lack of charisma, the Lord and Steward of Laketown( my gosh, I wanted their heads smashed in), a lot of Radagast's screen time, and the ridiculous Elven and Dwarvish stunts like the Barrel Chase or Legolas's stuff with the Bats in the Battle of Five Armies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkum Posted July 21, 2016 Report Share Posted July 21, 2016 3 hours ago, ScottLeft said: I would argue that most of the casting was fair to fantastic. My problems were with the plot, side stories, and a lot of the action. In particular, the elf-dwarf romance, Azog's lack of charisma, the Lord and Steward of Laketown( my gosh, I wanted their heads smashed in), a lot of Radagast's screen time, and the ridiculous Elven and Dwarvish stunts like the Barrel Chase or Legolas's stuff with the Bats in the Battle of Five Armies. can't speak to the rest of the casting so much, but nothing about it struck me as bad, but I will second that second paragraph in its entirety. In theory, I should like Radagast, and I think they got a few parts of his personality right, but almost everything about him was wacky to the point of being irritating. I didn't bother watching the second adn 3rd movies, but the escape sequence from the goblin caves in the first one was atrocious 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird Posted July 21, 2016 Report Share Posted July 21, 2016 (edited) I will say this about the Hobbit movie trilogy: Smaug was storming AWESOME. Not just Benedict Cumberbatch's voice acting, which was, of course, fabulous, but the visual rendition of the dragon onscreen. And if you haven't seen the behind the scenes footage of Benedict doing the motion capture, crawling around on the floor pretending to be a dragon, go watch it now. What I've been reading lately, in order to keep this post at least semi-on-topic: just finished The Darkest Magic by Morgan Rhodes, the 2nd book in a sort of spinoff/prequel series to her Falling Kingdoms books. Funniest character in the book was a reanimated severed head (who was somehow able to talk and complained of being in danger of drowning, even though his lungs were not attached...?). Next up: The Last Star, the last book in Rick Yancey's 5th Wave trilogy. Update: I have given up on The Last Star. I realized that I don't actually like any of the characters, and the author's failure to stay in one tense was driving me up the wall. Moving on to To Be or Not To Be? by Ryan North--a choose-your-own-adventure adaptation of the Shakespeare play Hamlet. Edited July 22, 2016 by Sunbird 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eki Posted July 23, 2016 Report Share Posted July 23, 2016 Finished The Light Fantastic. I definitely appreciate the Discworld books more the more of them I read. People say the first ones aren't as good, and I agree, but they set up things that I now recognize from later books. It's nice to know their beginnings. They didn't have the third book when I bought this one, so instead i also picked up Guards! Guards!, which a lot of people recommend (even as the first book to read, I believe,?). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Posted July 24, 2016 Report Share Posted July 24, 2016 Oh yes, Guards!Guards! Is fantastic, one of my favorites. It is one of the books I normally recommend people read first as well . Finally started Good Omens, it's FANTASTIC! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird Posted July 24, 2016 Report Share Posted July 24, 2016 I have been laughing my butt off today reading To Be Or Not To Be. No idea how much of the book I've gotten through since I'm jumping around haphazardly from page to page according to my choices, but I'm having a blast. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkness Ascendant Posted July 25, 2016 Report Share Posted July 25, 2016 Been re-reading Stormlight Archive again and have been noting quite alot of unusual things which I didn't give much thought to during my first few reads. Amazing how much there is hidden in the book! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Finished reading an interesting (that's probably the wrong word) book today--I Hunt Killers by Barry Lyga. I think GoodReads recommended it to me based on my interest in the John Cleaver books, and there were certainly plenty of moments when it reminded me of those. The violence in this book didn't make me as squeamish as I Am Not a Serial Killer did on my first read, but I think I Hunt Killers was more disturbing on a psychological level... What does it say about me that I intend to continue with the series? I'm also beginning a re-read of The Vampire Files series by PN Elrod. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briar King Posted July 27, 2016 Report Share Posted July 27, 2016 Finished Safehold 3 today. Onto 4 now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird Posted July 30, 2016 Report Share Posted July 30, 2016 Finished the second books in the Jasper Dent, Vampire Files, and Arkwell Academy series in the last two days. On to books #3! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathoth Posted July 31, 2016 Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 I finished American Gods, slow, but it was an interesting journey. Now I guess I should continue The Lies of Locke Lamora and Perdido Street Station... but Dead Beat is giving me the puppy eyes... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormingTexan Posted July 31, 2016 Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 (edited) Finished Winter's Heart. It's not my favorite in the series so far but not my least either and the ending... Think I'm going to take a quick WoT break and read Sphere by Michael Crichton before the infamous CoT. Edited July 31, 2016 by StormingTexan 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird Posted July 31, 2016 Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 @Morzathoth Yes! Give in to the puppy eyes! Dead Beat is one of my favorite Dresden Files. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathoth Posted July 31, 2016 Report Share Posted July 31, 2016 @Sunbird Fiiine... I guess I can read it and Lies at the same time, but I still need to pick up Perdido Street Station again... So much to read, so little time XD 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird Posted August 1, 2016 Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 8 hours ago, Morzathoth said: So much to read, so little time XD Always! Finished the Jasper Dent trilogy. Rather disturbing, but it didn't end as badly as I feared it might. I've now started Steeplejack by AJ Hartley, but haven't gotten far enough in to really form an opinion yet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zathoth Posted August 1, 2016 Report Share Posted August 1, 2016 I know I posted yesterday, but I just finished Teatro Grottesco by Thomas Ligotti and that final story... wow... that was bleak. I love it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Briar King Posted August 2, 2016 Report Share Posted August 2, 2016 Only 60 pgs in Safehold 4 and struggling. 1-3 were so great but this one has been so boring! I even looked on Amazon to see rating and it appears to be the same for other people. It has the lowest of the series. This maybe a long 700 pg read it's looking like. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSC01 Posted August 3, 2016 Report Share Posted August 3, 2016 I started reading Slade House by David Mitchell last night. I probably would have read the whole thing, but I stared falling asleep, so I stopped halfway through. It's short (a novella by fantasy standards, I suppose, but it's over 200 pages), but it ties into The Bone Clocks, which I unfortunately read long enough ago that I'm probably missing the less obvious connections. Anyway, Mitchell is one great author. I hardly ever read anything but epic fantasy, but his writing is really gripping. Granted, this is technically fantasy, even if it's not epic fantasy, but it's of a more literary bent. I also normally hate present-tense writing to the point that I can't even read books written that way, but Mitchell writes present tense so much in the POV character's voice that it really is like someone telling you a story about something that happened to them. It isn't distracting at all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sunbird Posted August 4, 2016 Report Share Posted August 4, 2016 Finished the 3rd and final book in the Arkwell Academy series and had a hard time holding back tears during the last few chapters because the ending was bittersweet. It has earned a spot on my Favorites shelf on GoodReads. Soon I'll finally be starting League of Dragons, the final book in Naomi Novik's Temeraire series. Super excited for that! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wychmire Posted August 4, 2016 Report Share Posted August 4, 2016 I just Finished Legends: Darkstalker by Tui T Sutherland. Which while being written for children is still quite a good book. If you decide to read it please note that it is not the first book. it can be read as the first book. But it was written as an explanation for the second series arc. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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