Favorite books?

[VonMessa]

Good call on the Count of Monte Cristo.  It's nothing like the two movies that have been made.  It's so much more evil and devious.

Pitiful, pitiful, pitiful  compared to the book.

There is just no way that anyone is going to fit the best revenge tale EVER conceived and make a worthy film. 

One can NOT cram years of imprisonment, learning, plotting, planning, and execution of plans into 2 hours of video and put the viewer properly in the head of Edmund Dantes.

[lasersailor184]

Lately I've been considering the value of Mini-series to explore the literature realm.  For example, I am very concerned that they are going to try to fit all of Atlas Shrugged into one 2-3 hour movie.

[VonMessa]

Lately I've been considering the value of Mini-series to explore the literature realm.  For example, I am very concerned that they are going to try to fit all of Atlas Shrugged into one 2-3 hour movie.

Mini-series for most novels would be a much better medium.   

[Simaril]

Yep, the miniseries has the only real hope of doing justice to a book.

The Band of Brothers miniseries is the greatest war story ever put on film...and it couldn't have done anything as well if it were a movie

[VonMessa]

Agreed.

Although the whole 'TV' thing chaps my arse from time to time.  I still make my kids read more than they really want to.  Especially if I see them watching something that I know I have the book of, on the bookshelf.

[Roundeye]

http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,233903.0.html

[angelsandair]

If you want a good book, I recomend The Last Stand of the Tin Can Soldiers.  It's about Taffy 3 and how they did some ballsy things against pretty much the might of the Japanese Fleet.

I'm looking to finish that one. But I'm pretty much at the end. The book Abandoned at Leyte is really cool because you can tell what the guy is doing in the Battle of Leyte gulf. Where he was and IIRC from "The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" (not Soldiers) they mentioned his group attacking the Battleship Yamato.



oh and roundeye, read "Days of Infamy" you'll love it.

[Roundeye]

oh and roundeye, read "Days of Infamy" you'll love it.

Thanks, anglesandair...I'll look for it.

[angelsandair]

Thanks, anglesandair...I'll look for it.

Brand new book, really detailed.

[Barnes828]

Soldier X: its about a young German conscript late in WW2 who is sent to the eastern front as a translator, he is wounded and poses as a Russian soldier (Russian family so hes fluent in Russian and German) soldier in order to avoid capture/execution, he becomes friends with a nurse and couple patients at the hospital he is at, eventually the germans over run the hospital and he  makes his way to the American and British front to save his friends from the Germans, eventually the only remaining people in the group is him and the nurse, he is accidentally shot in the arm and faceby an American and is given care. Later after recovering and losing his Arm he reunites with the nurse and they move to the United States and becomes a teacher.

I believe the story is entirely true except the names of most of the characters. Ive read the book probably 8 or 9 times and could never put it down.

[uptown]

1. Patton: A Genius for War by Carlo D'este

2. Why the Allies Won by Richard Overy

3. Allied Fighter Aces by Mike Spick

4. The Mind of Adolf Hitler by the OSS

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Bzzzzzzzzzt!

Read them. Brooks didn't even TRY to disguise having ripped his characters right out of LotR. They were ok, but I never got around to reading the  Voyage of the Jerle Shannarra because they just weren't worth it. The Rhapsody series and Wayfarer's Redemption are by FAR superior to Brooks (Rhapsody being the second-best fantasy series I've read). Hell, even the endless and repetitive preaching of Goodkind is more enjoyable, (thank GOD he remembered he's writing a FANTASY series in the Final Three and that the Cold War has been over for 20 years) but even they don't come close to LotR.

Since we're on the classics:

Agreed on Monte Cristo. Also, I LOVED Ivanhoe. The language can be difficult, but well worth the effort.

well of course i read them i would not comment on them if i didnt,

and you are right after the wishsong the rest just didnt cut it for me, seemed like he was just pumpin them out for cash.

how about "The lion of Ireland"?      anybody read that? about Brian Boru


UPTOWN
book of Job is very good reading also, and does not sound corny at all, at least not to me.

ya the movie "Count of Monti Cristo" was only  "OK" but to be honest the only movie i have ever watched that was worthy of the books were LOTR,

wanna talk about a book they destroyed into a movie was "Battlefield Earth" i was so pissed after watching that movie. waste of two hours, friggen book was something like 1,300 pages took me three days to read it, that was a very good book IMO, HORRIBLE movie.

[uptown]

Thanks Ink  I edited that because I just realized they were asking about WW2 books. But yeah, book of Job is my all time favorite. 

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uptown
 

Revelation is my favorite book in the bible.

[angelsandair]

Ehh. If its an interesting read, I'm all for it.