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09-27-2008, 06:26 PM
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| The Road No trailer out for it yet but havent seen any posts on it yet. The Road (2008) looks good, maybe it will fill my S.T.A.L.K.E.R./1984/Children of Men/Mad Max fantasies. I love Viggo and from what i have read this movie has the attention of the oscar people.
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09-28-2008, 03:15 PM
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+16 Internets | Well, IMDB let me know which scenes are in the film, purely by the names of some of the roles  Looks like they will probably be fitting in most of the novel.
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09-28-2008, 04:28 PM
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+16 Internets | It's interesting...he has an odd writing style, but I liked how he painted a picture of this ultra bleak, "we're on the edge of extinction" future.
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09-28-2008, 11:47 PM
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| He definitely has a distinct writing style (hope you're not too attached to punctuation). You should really just "rent" it from Border's and read it before hand. It took me about 4 or 5 hours and I'm not a fast reader. Big font, big margins, and whenever there's dialogue it often goes like this: Can I fly like a bird? Yes. Why? Because. Oh. Ya. I see. Good. Let's not die. K. |
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09-30-2008, 03:24 PM
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| It's definitely different from any other post-apocalyptic book/film that I've read/seen. (Mild spoilers, maybe...) It's set in a world in which there is absolutely no wild animals or plantlife left alive. It's oppressively bleak pretty much throughout. |
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09-30-2008, 04:26 PM
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+4 Internets | The book is one of the best written in the last few years (that I've read, obviously). It's not the fantastical post-apocalyptic story that most people are used to or even expecting, it's very much centered on the relationship of a father and son. It's written in a way that would lend itself perfectly to making an amazing movie adaptation, but it would be a hard movie to sell and might not be widely appreciated. I hope it's close though. It's one of the only books I've read in a long time that made me stop to re-read the same sentence or paragraph over out of amazement of how simplistic but perfectly written it was. If you liked No Country for Old Men don't expect it to be similar at all, it's McCarthy but it's a completely different approach. It's a quick read, I'm a fairly slow reader too and it only took a few hours. I would recommend reading the book before seeing the movie. Not because the movie will suck and get it all wrong, but because the movie will probably play up some of the grittier moments and change dialogue to create a little more mainstream interest. It might be easier to follow the tone of the book without having to associate it with something. Then you can come to terms with the idea that they'll probably replace some subtlety with overstatement in the movie and enjoy it anyway. Maybe that's just how my mind works. I'm still hoping the movie is great, but with a book like this I'm glad I have gotten what I have out of it before going in.
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10-08-2008, 10:52 PM
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| The book stuck with me more than any book I've ever read. The only thing to come close was Where the Red Fern Grows when I was seven or eight. You need to read the book in one sitting, and you need to read it with a frame of mind that will allow you to take it in completely. If you like the first 2/3 of I Am Legend(the story, not the movie) then you will like this.
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