The Silence of the Lambs
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Gone With The Wind
The Godfather
Apocalypse Now (Heart of Darkness)
Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)
Rosemary's Baby
Perfume
The Exorcist
A Clockwork Orange
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Showing posts with label heart of darkness. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Top Ten Tuesday: Great Posters For Books Made Into Movies
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl! This week is technically supposed to be a cover freebie, but honestly I am not huge into book covers. So I'm doing a little twist on it: I'd originally thought of highlighting books that get new covers when a movie is released and the best or worst of those, but instead, I'm just going to do the posters for the movies themselves! I have either seen the movies or read the books (mostly both) for every one of these.
The Silence of the Lambs
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Gone With The Wind
The Godfather
Apocalypse Now (Heart of Darkness)
Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)
Rosemary's Baby
Perfume
The Exorcist
A Clockwork Orange
The Silence of the Lambs
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Gone With The Wind
The Godfather
Apocalypse Now (Heart of Darkness)
Blade Runner (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)
Rosemary's Baby
Perfume
The Exorcist
A Clockwork Orange
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Didn't Like But Am Glad I Read
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly linkup of book bloggers hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl! This week, we're talking about books we didn't actually enjoy but were nevertheless glad we've read. For me, this kind of reading generally means classics, because I do like bragging about getting through these (and honestly, many of them are better than you think before you actually crack them open). So here are ten that didn't do it for me but I appreciate having finished anyways.
Don Quixote: I know this is considered a delightful comedic classic, but I hate this kind of cringe comedy. For me, the "joke" played out quickly and then there were still hundreds of pages to struggle through and emphasis on the struggle.
Crime and Punishment: I thought I hated Russian literature until I read Tolstoy. It turned out I love Tolstoy, so I happily turned to Dostoevsky in the hopes that I would love him too. Nope. Just Tolstoy. I hated this book.
Hunger: I found this book on a list of under-rated classics, but the best thing about it was that it was short.
Gone With the Wind: The movie is an (admittedly problematic) fave, but the book? Scarlett O'Hara is a total grade-A asshole but Vivien Leigh makes it compelling on screen. I just rooted for the Scarlett in the book to get her comeuppance.
Of Mice and Men: This one is less on the braggy side and more on the pop-culture reference understanding side.
The Catcher in the Rye: This one even more on the pop-culture side. Why does popular culture think the world is so invested in the narratives of Sad Alienated Boys?
Heart of Darkness: Being able to drop a pretentious allusion to this Joseph Conrad classic is literally the only reward for reading it.
Into the Wild: I enjoy having read this so I can rant about how much I hate it to anyone who tries to tell me that Christopher McCandless was anything other than a dude who deserved exactly what he got.
The DaVinci Code: This was not a good book, for me, but it was a cultural phenomenon and I'm glad I read it at the same time everyone else was.
Butterfly Boy: This was a book club pick and while I really appreciated getting the perspective of a man who is both gay and Latino, because it's not a kind of voice I experience very often, I didn't actually like reading it.
Don Quixote: I know this is considered a delightful comedic classic, but I hate this kind of cringe comedy. For me, the "joke" played out quickly and then there were still hundreds of pages to struggle through and emphasis on the struggle.
Crime and Punishment: I thought I hated Russian literature until I read Tolstoy. It turned out I love Tolstoy, so I happily turned to Dostoevsky in the hopes that I would love him too. Nope. Just Tolstoy. I hated this book.
Hunger: I found this book on a list of under-rated classics, but the best thing about it was that it was short.
Gone With the Wind: The movie is an (admittedly problematic) fave, but the book? Scarlett O'Hara is a total grade-A asshole but Vivien Leigh makes it compelling on screen. I just rooted for the Scarlett in the book to get her comeuppance.
Of Mice and Men: This one is less on the braggy side and more on the pop-culture reference understanding side.
The Catcher in the Rye: This one even more on the pop-culture side. Why does popular culture think the world is so invested in the narratives of Sad Alienated Boys?
Heart of Darkness: Being able to drop a pretentious allusion to this Joseph Conrad classic is literally the only reward for reading it.
Into the Wild: I enjoy having read this so I can rant about how much I hate it to anyone who tries to tell me that Christopher McCandless was anything other than a dude who deserved exactly what he got.
The DaVinci Code: This was not a good book, for me, but it was a cultural phenomenon and I'm glad I read it at the same time everyone else was.
Butterfly Boy: This was a book club pick and while I really appreciated getting the perspective of a man who is both gay and Latino, because it's not a kind of voice I experience very often, I didn't actually like reading it.
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