Time Enough For Love

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

An t-Ileach, I love that saying! It says to me that we are responsible for everything we do and nobody gives you a free ride, as well as much, much more!

Southern Breeze, I too have misses Pratchett and will be looking to check him out.

[Jewddha]

Pratchett is indeed great fun, met him once, asked him about The Wee Free Men, he figures they could overrun the disc if they weren't distracted.

[flyv65]

Another good one is The Cat Who Walked Through Walls.

Don't forget Stranger in a Strange Land...it taught me to grok individuality.

Bryan...and I read Starship Troopers in junior high-much better than the (crappy) movie...

[Sciuropterus]

I heard that a movie of Stranger in a Strange Land was under consideration. I think Owen Wilson would be great in the lead, with someone like Sean Connery as Jubal Harshaw.

As I mentioned before, Heinlein is why I always liked kilts.

Time Enough for Love influenced me considerably- it was only fitting that our 5-month old daughter Dora got her name from that book.

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

Don't forget Stranger in a Strange Land...it taught me to grok individuality.

Bryan...and I read Starship Troopers in junior high-much better than the (crappy) movie...

Bryan, I agree in regards to the movie and its reflection of the real story in the book. However, if you just enjoy it as a movie, it is not bad. A little too gory actually for me, but acceptable as a rental.

The same could be said for the recent Clive Cussler (another of my favorite authors) movie Sahara. It was actually fairly good at depicting some of the major story lines (although Cussler embeds many sub plots) and after seeing it for the second time, I came to like it. While the characters were not as I had envisioned them in my mind while reading his books, when I reflected and reviewed his actual descriptions of the characters personalities, I could live with it! Now their physical apprearance only bore a vague resemblance to the author's description, but that is to be expected. I thought Dirk could have been played perfectly by Hugh Jackman (not to start a war over actor characterizations!)

[macgreggor]

KCW,

As to how movies compare to the way we imagine the books, I am reminded of the old saying 'the pictures are always better on the radio'! There is NOTHING which can compare with our imaginations.

BTW, can anybody tell me who to credit that quote to? Thanks.

macG

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

I heard that a movie of Stranger in a Strange Land was under consideration. I think Owen Wilson would be great in the lead, with someone like Sean Connery as Jubal Harshaw.

As I mentioned before, Heinlein is why I always liked kilts.

Time Enough for Love influenced me considerably- it was only fitting that our 5-month old daughter Dora got her name from that book.

Sciuopterus, I would love to see a movie made from this book, but it would almost have to be an epic to truly capture the flavor of the book, although Hollywood would not be concerned with really capturing the flavor as long as it sold lots of tickets. However, I have to disagree about the role of Valentine Michael Smith, I could not imaging Owen Wilson being serious enough to play this role in a movie. The only scene that I could see him as perfect for is the first time Michael laughs for real in the book. I do agree with Sean Connery for Jubal, although he may be too refined. My view of Jubal is somebody who really believes in TANSTAAFL and desn't care what anybody else thinks a la Lazarus Long, who I think would be played perfectly by Sean Connery. For Jubal, I would lean toward, hmmmh, maybe Jack Nicholson, or in a lighter vain a John Goodman. For Michael I would think somebody more "androgynously" beautiful, but still masculine. Say the creature from Rocky Horror (I know, reaching deep into the past), although saying that, I might agree that Owen might have the features to pull this off. Orlando Bloom, as he looked in Lord of the Rings, is another possibility that I like better, and he has that innocence look as well.

Da#$, how in the he#$ did I get off on this tangent!

Later,
RJI

[Southern Breeze]

KCW,

As to how movies compare to the way we imagine the books, I am reminded of the old saying 'the pictures are always better on the radio'! There is NOTHING which can compare with our imaginations.

BTW, can anybody tell me who to credit that quote to? Thanks.

macG

How true that is.For some reason seeing the movie after reading the book is always somewhat disappointing.

[GMan]

Well you can always read the book after seeing the movie to see what you missed.

[macgreggor]

I like that GMan,

Better to expand the experience than passivly accecpt some else's (wrong) vision of a story.

macG