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I have recently rediscovered the book. (Well, mostly eBooks via Kindle apps...) I read a lot when I was younger, but for some reason kind of stopped for a whil
by api 16y ago
I have recently rediscovered the book. (Well, mostly eBooks via Kindle apps...)
I read a lot when I was younger, but for some reason kind of stopped for a while. Now I read quite often again, and I love it. eBooks make it easy too. Click, boom, done, and if the author publishes directly or has a decent contract they get 50-70% of my purchase price.
There is a ton of very good literature out there: smart dramas, mysteries, sci-fi, quirky stuff like Gaiman's American Gods, classics I've never bothered to read, etc. The field is a lot larger, due in part to the fact that the capital requirements are essentially nonexistent. Anyone can write a book.
I'm not holding my breath on Hollywood. If movies have hope, it's from the indy scene doing interesting things on small budgets.
- billswift 16y agoFor good stories, and especially intelligent stories, novels have it all over movies. That is the main reason most of the movies I watch are action or special effects oriented, that is the only thing the medium has that decent novels don't. Even in those cases though, novels can have some advantage - the novelization of the first Iron Man movie had lots of back story and asides that made the movie more interesting.
- defroost 16y ago> I'm not holding my breath on Hollywood. If movies have hope, it's from the indy scene doing interesting things on small budgets. Yes, and foreign films from some of the worlds great directors like Pedro Almodovar, Michael Haneke, Claire Denis, and Fatih Akin. Some of the best of cinema is coming from as you mentioned independent projects, and foreign titles like A Prophet (Un prophete) and Dogtooth (Kynodontas).
- tsotha 16y agoThat's what I was thinking as I read the article. "The foreigners are gonna eat your lunch, Hollywood. You're living on borrowed time."
- paganel 16y agoAlso, don't forget South Korean and Hong Kong cinema. For example Scorsese's "The Departed" is a (inferior) remake after a Hong Kong trilogy.
- visakhcr 16y agoI disagree! The Departed was based on the Hong Kong film Infernal Affairs. It has a prequel as well as a sequel too. I don't understand Chinese and had to rely on subs. But, I had watched Infernal Affairs before Departed came. Martin Scorcese was awesome, Walhberg and Damon are my favs, but still, I liked the original more than the Hollywood adaptation. I think you watched Departed first and then the original, which would have caused the original to look inferior with the Hollywood one.