Follow Friday & Book Blogger Hop

Follow My Book Blog Friday is hosted by Rachel at Parajunkee's View. The point is to follow as many book blog as you can and make new friends! As part of the adventure, she gives a weekly question. Here is this week's question:

How many books do you read in a week? And in what format do you read them, or listen to them?

I usually only average one real book a week. At times, if the book is a quick read, I'll get through two a week. Sadly, audio books have a tendency to put me to sleep. I think it comes from years of my mother reading to me before bed.




"What book-to-movie adaption have you most liked? Which have you disliked?"

Well, that is a hard question. For the most part, I absolutely hate movie adaptations of books. However, if I had to choose one, I think Peter Jackson did a fairly good job of following LoTR. That is an extremely dense series, and he tried to stay true to the books. My main problems revolved around the feeling I got from the books that were not duplicated in the movies. However, there was no way he could have done it. Ha-ha. my hubby and I often thought that Stanly Kubrick should have filmed the scene in Moria to give it the right feeling. The Shining proved that he had a gift for making the audience feel the passing time. That was needed in Moria.

I suppose, if I'm honest with myself, The Watchmen was not a terrible adaptation of the graphic novel. Granted, the whole story-within-a-story contained within the comic the guy reads was left out. However, I'm not necessarily sure how that could have been added and still work. Also, in the graphic novel, after finding out who Rorschach is, you realize that you have seen him constantly throughout the story. I didn't get the same feeling from the movie. In addition, there is a whole section that deals with the reason Rorschach actually choose his mask and the fabric he uses. I felt that was pretty important to the story, but that wasn't included in the movie. All in all, it was pretty fair. Plus, the soundtrack kicked ass ^_~

As far as movie adaptations a hated, the one that tops my list is Battlefield Earth. It was a 1,000+ page book that maybe had one or two pages randomly selected from each episode int he book all pasted into the script. For a Scientologist, you would think Travolta would want to do Hubbard a little justice in the movie. Honestly, that movie was a horrible, horrible insult. If you've read the book, I don't need to explain. If you haven't, read it! While the book is corny, it is an amazing work of sci-fi that shouldn't be missed. Plus, it is awesome knowing that the Last Battle took place at USAFA, especially when you've visited there a number of times ^_~