FLavius Valerius Constantinus Posted January 1, 2006 Report Share Posted January 1, 2006 We talk often on about which book and movie is good, but not many actually pointed out their favorite. So what is your favorite book and movie, or even perhaps an adaptation of a book? Mine would be the Talented Mr. Ripley(movie/adaptation) and The Glass Menagerie(book, but then I don't like unhappy endings). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emperess Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 movie and book would both be interview with the vampire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Germanicus Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 I really can't pick just one of each. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonlapse Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 A few book/movies I enjoy... Dune (some might rightly argue that the movie is utterly horrible, but I like it), Fight Club, American Psycho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Germanicus Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Dune (some might rightly argue that the movie is utterly horrible, but I like it) Me too, it's an excellent film and an excellent book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primus Pilus Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Favorite Books: Non fiction: Tacitus the Annals - whom I prefer over all the other ancients not only for his style but because I also believe his work to be the most dedicated to true historical reporting. Caesar 'the Gallic Wars and the Civil Wars'. Despite the inherent propoganda, the work is brilliant and describes a pivotal era of human history. Of course there are many great books in the 'non-fiction' category but I generally read them only once, maybe twice. I can read the ancients many times over... hence they classify as my favorites even if modern sources provide more insightful analysis. Fiction: The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet. An absolutely brilliant recreation of feudal Britain set in the time period of the civil wars just before Thomas Beckett and Henry II. A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin. My favorite 'fantasy' writer in an ever growing genre. His work his more about medieval style heraldy then the typical magic wielding wizards that one would find in that field. Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield. Truly a masterpiece of historical fiction that retells the story of the '300' at the battle of thermopylae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pantagathus Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Movie - Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Book - The Razors Edge by W. Somerset Maugham or Something Happened by Joseph Heller Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pertinax Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Life of Brian-though I must say The Book isnt quite the same as the film exactly why are the cheesemakers blessed? I agree with supporters of Dune-some of the "imagined" things and situations are outstanding-guild navigator in slime dripping 1930s retro iron lung, sardauker face panels, the greenish vileness of all things Harkonnen, Brad Dourifs eyebrows. If you require me not to "be silly" (as in "lets not go to Camelot, tis a silly place"). then Das Boot is equally powerful as film or book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pantagathus Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Life of Brian-though I must say The Book isnt quite the same as the film exactly why are the cheesemakers blessed? Shares 1st with a lot of stuff really! & Blessed is just about everyone with a vested interest in the status quo... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M. Porcius Cato Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Favorite movie--High Noon with Gary Cooper and Grace Kelly. Favorite novel--The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. Both of High Noon and The Fountainhead are about one man standing against everyone for what he believes is right. It's this intransigent independence that also makes me love Cato. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Favonius Cornelius Posted January 4, 2006 Report Share Posted January 4, 2006 Ayn Rand huh? I think that might explain a few things about your mode of thinking Cato. As for myself, I'm pretty boring: Gladiator and The Hobbit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sextus Roscius Posted January 5, 2006 Report Share Posted January 5, 2006 Favorite Movie--Hard to say, alot of ties for first, can't distinguish the best. Favorite Book--Roman Blood by Steven Saylor, great book Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honorius Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 fav movie - Schindlers list (sp?) fav book - The Hobbit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEG X EQ Posted January 10, 2006 Report Share Posted January 10, 2006 Favorit Movie: Too many, but my favorit movie genre is without a doubt Gangster Movies ( Scarface, GodaftherI-II-III, City of God, Blow,White Suit, Donnie Brasco, Brothers of a Difference, every Tarantino movie etc. etc.). Favorit Book: Als China Erwachte Egbert Kieser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neos Dionysos Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Favorite Movie? I have a lot I love... but here;s one of the top tier ones... "Starships Troopers" and favorite book? again WAY to many to list... but a top one... "Starship Troopers" LoL... notice a trend? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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