Book Thread

I think that, at best, you could say that there are rare exceptions to this rule. Virtually all books are better than their movie counterparts (unless it's a book that was based on a movie).

 

The Green Mile has been about the only movie i have seen that has followed the book and included most of the book. A very good read.

 

Field of Dreams was a much better movie than the book - "Shoeless Joe" on which it was based.

 

reading the controversial "The Bell Curve" - talks about the increasing stratification of society based on cognitive ability due to transformation to information society.

 

Gunny I think it means that we're seeing more classes of people based on how they can cope with the evolving information age. Er something like that

And if you end up reading the Potter books, you'll find lots of stuff different than the movies (assuming you've seen them).

 

Anyone read the "Wheel of Time" series? A friend gave me the 1st book a few years ago, The Eye of the World. It's a long book, and I think it's a very long series (10-15 books?). I guess it's LOTR type fantasy, and he said it was his favorite of that genre.