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You gotta support where you come from BB....At least you have the right idea....!
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Now I've started wrestling through Ted Gioia's History Of Jazz, for college... It's the third time I have to read it, but I haven't actually read it
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I'd hate to say it but Gioia's book sucks.. always a bad sign when authors manage to make an interesting subject boring. Alyn Shipton's "New History
of Jazz" is much better, more interesting and more enjoyable. Of course as a huge jazz fan, I'm pretty biased. It really helps to know the records and
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Yeah well... Our teacher based his choice of the book on both quality and price. Gioia's book being one of the cheapest, and having relative
quality... He did advice Shipton if you're interested in jazz and have money to spare.
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Finished Hobbit last night... Good read too.
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Finished Hobbit last night... Good read too. |
Yeah, i liked the Hobbit. I read it before TLOTR. I liked Bilbo better than Frodo, who i think is a bit of a pussy ("I don't think i can go on Sam!"
and all that jazz) .
I have a question. We all know that elves, dwarves and hobbits and wizards and goblins aren't really real, but they exist in the fantasy world.
What about gnomes? Nobody talks about gnomes unless they're from the garden or, if your me, from South Park. Do they exist on the
same level as elves and goblins? 
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The novel, not the comic / graphic novel. Actually very good..........
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| Quote: | Originally posted by scallopino
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Finished Hobbit last night... Good read too. |
Yeah, i liked the Hobbit. I read it before TLOTR. I liked Bilbo better than Frodo, who i think is a bit of a pussy ("I don't think i can go on Sam!"
and all that jazz) .
I have a question. We all know that elves, dwarves and hobbits and wizards and goblins aren't really real, but they exist in the fantasy world.
What about gnomes? Nobody talks about gnomes unless they're from the garden or, if your me, from South Park. Do they exist on the
same level as elves and goblins? |
[url] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnome[/url]
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Ok, thanks BB. So they are reasonably real but not to the same level as elves or goblins or fairies.
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Just seen ROTK, which I purchased on VHS for E 1,99, a snip. The first 2,5 hours last about as long as the last 15 minutes. Shame how you can end such
a great film in such a boring way.
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Dad bought me a Fellowship video... I now have seen all three films. Leading me to say the eternal remark "nice, but the book is better".
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Yeah, that's what i thought. We have on the ABC in Australia "At the Movies" featuring two old buffs, one who looks like an orc:
They had Australia's top ten Special show where people voted for their favourite movies of all time. TLOTR Trilogy GOT NUMBER ONE!  Citizen Kane wasn't in the top ten, neither was Taxi Driver or the
Godfather movies or King Kong or Maltese Falcon.
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Some stuff is just beyond compehension... What else is in their Top 10? Evita? What Dreams May Come? Seven Years In Tibet? Titanic? Sound Of Music?
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Justs started this...One The Road - Jack Kerouac
....and by the way, I agree....LOTR trilogy good, but books better....
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Finished Gioia for the first time... finally.
There's a bit on Zappa in it: Gioia referred to Jazz from Hell as an album from the late 60s and 70s.
Now reading a girl's book called Bonnie does it herself... Funny...
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Some stuff is just beyond compehension... What else is in their Top 10? Evita? What Dreams May Come? Seven Years In Tibet? Titanic? Sound Of Music?
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yeah, almost. it seemed like it was "Top Ten Most Popular Rentals". My sister wrote them down and i found the list. here we go:
1. TLOTR trilogy
2. Amelie
3. Blade Runner
4. Shawshank Redemption
5. Donnie Darko
6. Star Wars: A New Hope
7. Pulp Fiction
8. The Princess Bride
9. Gone With The Wind
10. Fight Club
 I don't think you can love the LOTR movies that much if you've read
the books. I find it real hard to watch a movie that i've already read. Like, you can only lose the information from the original text if you try and
transfer it to another media.
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True... There were lots of points in the movie where I thought: Did I read that? My English is not good, there were points in LOTR where I lost
concentration, but I didn't think Frodo told Sam to go home on the stairs just before Shelob's lair. That's sooo annoying... My fave part in the book
and they wreck it!
I should find an 'irritated' smiley. The only irritated smiley we have now is holding an Off-Topic sign.
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Just recalled my favourite movie is Karakter, which was made after 2 books, and is a LOT different from the original.
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It's different if the makers of the movie use a book for inspiration or main ideas. Or if the book is just so great and detailed and screams out to be
a movie.
But most book-movies now just seem to make a visual version of the book for money making purposes aimed at two kinds of people: 1) People who
can't/don't read. 2) People without any kind of visual imagination.
Like Harry Potter (Pothead). The first two movies were just so boring coz they were like reading the book without reading it. Then they started being
creative and actually tried to make great movies, which they did!
i always thought this  looks a little irritated. Or this  like "How could they do that!?"
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And even then it depends on what they make of it... I found Matilda, one of my favourite Dahl books, turned into something with a very annoying
voice-over. But I did love the Tales Of The Unexpected series.
I love this! Just look at it and picture Homer going gglllgg!
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Yeah, and it had that chick who's in that christmas movie with that guy from Jurassic Park, brother of David Attenborough, with the beard, as
Santa.
BB, i swear to god that I had a teacher in high school who could have been the sister of MRS. TRUNCHBULL! She was a giant of a woman, was in the army,
was probably a lesbian, and used to brag about how many men she was in charge of. And she was in charge of the girls' hockey EVERY YEAR.
I hope they make the BFG into a movie. I loved that.
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There's a BFG caroon that sucks... Ever seen it?
Shame there's no female giants in that book; I'd love to be one.
Did I say Caroon? I meant cartoon.
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