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chewyxrage
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Interesting
the CEO of my company told me to read this book 2 years ago
never did
Java - should I read it before watching?
the CEO of my company told me to read this book 2 years ago
never did
Java - should I read it before watching?
javaguru
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I would recommend that everyone read the book any movie is based upon before watching it.... based on the premise that the book is always better and I'm sure this will be a perfect example.Interesting
the CEO of my company told me to read this book 2 years ago
never did
Java - should I read it before watching?
lol
This movie looks absolutely horrible. It's like a bunch of film students made it with no budget and non actors.
crew9
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Interesting
the CEO of my company told me to read this book 2 years ago
never did
Java - should I read it before watching?
I don't think it will matter. It's been a few years since I read the book but it doesn't look like the movie follows it too closely.
If there looked like there was ever an example of the book being better than the movie this is it.
For the record I found the book to be overbearing but it had it's intrigue....my idealogical clashes with rand didn't prevent me from getting something out of it. But I do think it's kind of amusing that a movie based on a book that well known and highly regarded is such complete shit lol.
Rand did have a way of cramming it down your throat, she wasn't a particularly subtle ideologue.
I'm not sure why her work is regarded with any more reverence than, say, one of the Niven/Pournelle potboilers.
It was Angelina Jolie I think...which would have automatically made it shitty. The reviews are not that bad on imdb.
Yeah, it was her....that's who I was thinking of originally, but I wasn't sure.
On rottentomatoes it has an 8% rating....pretty damn low for, again, something based on a book that highly read. That's Saw 3d territory lol
One review compared it to battlefield earth....ouch
On rottentomatoes it has an 8% rating....pretty damn low for, again, something based on a book that highly read. That's Saw 3d territory lol
One review compared it to battlefield earth....ouch
lol...I just looked it up...YIKES
I'll ruin this thread with chick flicks and chick-lit:
Have you read any of the chick-lit books from Emily Griffin? They are soooo a guilty pleasure for me...and I normally hate chick-lit...but Something Borrowed is coming out..I'll probably see that.
lol...I just looked it up...YIKES
I'll ruin this thread with chick flicks and chick-lit:
Have you read any of the chick-lit books from Emily Griffin? They are soooo a guilty pleasure for me...and I normally hate chick-lit...but Something Borrowed is coming out..I'll probably see that.
I don't do that genre anymore....I used to for a little while...now I can't stand it haha. Same with romantic comedies....I have to be convinced to watch those (and sometimes I even like them, but getting to the point of watching has to be a perfect storm of someone pushing me to do it, opportunity, and lack of better options right that moment).
I am the exact same way...I'll only watch a comedy if it is super dirty. LOL. I barely read fiction as it is...but I really like the stories she writes. I thought maybe you had read one of them....
When i was younger I lapped that stuff up. not so much the movies, but the books...danielle steel, sandra brown, nora roberts....I haven't thrown any of those books away, but I sure do hide them now. Not sure why they are so distasteful to me now...maybe the repetitiveness of the love story where everyone always lives happily ever after got boring? It's not like I don't read plenty of unrealistic stuff, but I think the difference is those (romance/chick lit) types of books are fantasy dressed in reality's clothes haha. Just googled Emily Griffin...looks like her first books were long past my moving on from chick lit.
Btw, don't get me wrong, I still have my guilty pleasures reading...that's just not the drug of choice anymore haha
javaguru
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I suspect that I frustrate Cindy on some level almost daily but we're individuals with our own expectations, desires and needs.
While I was having coffee this morning I saw a trailer of Something Borrowed...it has fucking Kate Hudson in it. Kate Hudson. I hate Kate Hudson. I never had a chick-lit phase. Just those Emily Griffin books sometime in 2008/9
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bran987
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Advice - read the abridged version.
I got to page 748 about 7 years ago and never finished, I got the idea though. I am disappointed they made it into a modern day setting. I think it would have been much better set in that time.
By the way I really loved the first half or so of that book, then it gets REALLY weird. I mean it was interesting the direction it took, but it goes into a fantasy world. It's worth reading just so you know about it.
I got to page 748 about 7 years ago and never finished, I got the idea though. I am disappointed they made it into a modern day setting. I think it would have been much better set in that time.
By the way I really loved the first half or so of that book, then it gets REALLY weird. I mean it was interesting the direction it took, but it goes into a fantasy world. It's worth reading just so you know about it.
javaguru
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I think it's mostly about the lack of my adhering to a strict schedule...she hates that.....I endeavor to be more consistent with our interactions.
lol
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