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So winter* draws to an end, and a new Challenge steps up! Any good reads planned for September? Legolas Send a noteboard - 01/09/2011 09:40:05 PM
*In the interest of fairness towards our Antipodean friends, I figured it was time to balance things up a bit. For that matter, I can't speak for the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, but what with the weather we've had in Belgium, it might as well have been winter here too.


Anyhow. It's not only a new month today, it's also time for the next one of our six RAFO challenges, which is... *drumroll*

Read a book and then watch a film of that book. And then, you know, tell us about it. :P

I think this is a challenge that can be done in very different ways, perhaps even more so than the others. You can read a book that you already know, then watch the movie version you hadn't seen yet - or the opposite. You can take it as an excuse to just read and watch an old favourite again, in the speculative fiction genre or outside it. Or you can choose some less obvious case, with a movie that is more distantly related to the novel it's inspired by, like Blade Runner inspired by Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, or, why not, 10 Things I Hate About You inspired by Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew (yes, I did like that movie :P ). In short, possibilities galore and, I should think, also lots of possibilities for discussion - here or on the Movies board - of how well a particular movie succeeded in bringing its source book to the screen.

Don't forget the other parts of the RAFO challenge either, the genre list, and of course the 50 Books Challenge.

Anyway, bottom line: what's on the menu for this month, challenge-related or not? Do share.
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So winter* draws to an end, and a new Challenge steps up! Any good reads planned for September? - 01/09/2011 09:40:05 PM 1380 Views
I read slow. - 01/09/2011 09:58:28 PM 1024 Views
Currently reading a few things - 02/09/2011 04:26:10 AM 916 Views
I will finish the Western book, and I also fell into The Scarlet Pimpernel - 02/09/2011 04:37:17 PM 1002 Views
I started Truman Capote's In Cold Blood - 10/09/2011 07:50:56 AM 905 Views
I'm just trying to find time to read - 03/09/2011 05:29:39 PM 954 Views
I am currently reading everything I can find. - 03/09/2011 08:59:55 PM 875 Views
Well, you know what the next step is... - 03/09/2011 10:19:47 PM 975 Views
Yeah, yeah. - 05/09/2011 01:36:25 AM 989 Views
Turns out maybe I should. - 14/09/2011 04:12:36 PM 945 Views
Current project: The Qur'an (in Arabic with translation). - 03/09/2011 10:22:40 PM 991 Views
Re: Current project: The Qur'an (in Arabic with translation). - 03/09/2011 11:35:43 PM 1013 Views
I would think that would be a thankless and tedious task - 04/09/2011 09:53:45 PM 1089 Views
I should've known you'd react that way, after your Luxemberg readings. - 04/09/2011 11:22:30 PM 1014 Views
Altering the Qur'an can and must happen - 05/09/2011 12:33:03 AM 784 Views
I agree with Tom that it might be boggy - 05/09/2011 01:19:13 AM 970 Views
Read LeCarre's Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy inbetween, but nothing else... oops. - 17/09/2011 10:29:43 PM 808 Views
Oh, that's a totally good idea! - 17/09/2011 10:46:35 PM 857 Views
Wait, which challenge? - 17/09/2011 11:41:11 PM 990 Views
Re: Wait, which challenge? - 17/09/2011 11:47:07 PM 969 Views
Re: Wait, which challenge? - 21/09/2011 08:42:42 PM 1312 Views
Yes - 21/09/2011 08:44:22 PM 948 Views
Re: Yes - 21/09/2011 08:46:21 PM 1250 Views
Nice way of putting it. - 21/09/2011 09:08:36 PM 987 Views
Re: Nice way of putting it. - 21/09/2011 09:10:01 PM 1017 Views
Now you made me realize I could do The Constant Gardener, too... - 21/09/2011 09:10:56 PM 832 Views
! - 22/09/2011 06:10:02 PM 976 Views
It's possibly the world's most amazing cast ever. - 22/09/2011 06:42:15 PM 1064 Views
Re: It's possibly the world's most amazing cast ever. - 22/09/2011 06:42:59 PM 947 Views
Bah! These things never work. - 04/09/2011 02:41:18 AM 1092 Views
I finally started the book I've been meaning to read for ages - 08/09/2011 06:01:31 PM 943 Views
I read Dune for the first time last year, and it was not what I was expecting. - 08/09/2011 06:45:22 PM 1078 Views
Dune was another I couldnt finish. - 09/09/2011 11:26:08 PM 903 Views
Just finished Ready Player One. - 10/09/2011 12:05:48 AM 1051 Views
Roight. - 17/09/2011 09:34:34 PM 1000 Views
Lovely Bones - 21/09/2011 04:25:18 PM 1046 Views
That was pretty much the impression I get from the trailer and reviews, yes... - 21/09/2011 09:13:28 PM 1139 Views
Nail / head. *NM* - 03/10/2011 01:06:18 PM 379 Views
Michael Shaara, The Killer Angels *NM* - 27/09/2011 04:17:50 AM 423 Views

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