Lost in Adaptation

> Dominic announced on Facebook that his next Book Club Podcast episode has a special guest, George R. R. Martin. They will discuss Nine Princes In Amber

oh rly?

(in before its an elaborate ruse!)

And here's the video.

Edited by jouXIII on Jul 1st 2023 at 7:29:24 PM

He posted pictures where the two were having dinner so im guessing they are best friends now?

Today, The Dom takes a look at E.L. James' latest novel, The Missus.

Why does he keep inflicting this on himself. D=

Because the audience loves it.

As a certain food critic once said: "We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read."

Today, The Dom compares Agatha Christie's 1934 crime novel Murder on the Orient Express to its 2017 film adaptation directed, co-produced and starred by Sir Kenneth Branagh.

Today, The Dom compares Agatha Christie's 1937 novel Death on the Nile to its 2022 film adaptation by Kenneth Branagh.

Today, The Dom takes a look at a Star Trek-novel written by William Shatner.

I'd heard of the Shatnerverse, but not how dumb it is

Today, The Dom makes an unscripted book review while polishing his swords:

Today, The Dom takes a look at Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined by Stephenie Meyer:

Today, The Dom returns to world of Liberty Adams.

Today, it's another Liberty Adams-book.

The idea that someone would want to ask Donald J. Trump for romantic advice terrifies me.

Today, The Dom finishes Chronicles of Narnia with The Last Battle:

From the summary alone, the way Susan is treated does sound pretty effed up. She was literally kicked out of Narnia and left all alone in the real world and she’s just told to… deal with it?

Also, that’s the weirdest Died Happily Ever After ending I’ve heard of. >.>

According to our own page, Susan pushed Aslan and Narnia away, and according to Lewis she would eventually find her own way to Aslan's Country.

But nobody likes talking about that; they just like dumping on the book.

Coz both are dumb? Also, Lewis didnt feel compelled to put that last bit in the book either.

The book is plenty dump worthy. Heck, Im pretty sure the series wouldn't get nearly as much flak for the christian stuff if it werent for that last book.

Like, "You all died off screen except your sister, that heathen" is just an awful way to end the book.

Edited by Ghilz on Oct 28th 2023 at 8:21:40 AM

When I read the series as a kid, I thought Susan getting left out was bullshit, but I disliked the book mainly for being unpleasant and weird^note well, a different kind of weird than the rest of the series. The Last Battle really deserves more shit than it gets, it's bad for a lot of other reasons than what happens with Susan

I’m confused, some comments say that she stopped believing because she was kicked out for a stupid reason, not the other way round.

I have literally never seen anybody on this site talk about the book who doesn't hate it. It even has its own professionally-written Hate Fic courtesy of Neil Gaiman.

It doesn't seem like shit for this book is in short supply, is what I'm saying.

Edited by MisterTambourineMan on Oct 28th 2023 at 10:15:54 AM

I do think authors clarifying something big they didn't bother explaining in book isn't really fix for book having really horrible implications yeah x'D

(BTW, Dom even brings up that addennum)

Its just in general wild how lot of known series end with really weird dark endings in final book either way

Edited by SpookyMask on Oct 28th 2023 at 11:53:30 AM

Today, The Dom takes a look of how an audio-visual medium was adapted into a book.