[bksvol-discuss] Re: O T Movie chickens

It's received good reviews, but after reading what
Carrie said as well as what you've said I don't think
it's my kind of movie. smile

Cindy

--- Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Dear Cindy, SF Readers, and Movie Fans,
> 
> Cindy, you and I are so alike in the way we react to
> scary movies, but in 
> books, I never jump to the end, though I feel bad
> when I work my way to an 
> ending that disappoints me or leaves me sad. Even if
> the critics and 
> readership thinks the sad ending is appropriate, I
> want endings to be happy.
> 
> I bailed on the movie today because reviewers used
> words like dystopia to 
> describe the society and I decided I could read
> books on my Braille Note 
> more comfortably at home than in the lobby. I
> usually enjoy SF books where 
> the world is rebuilding after a massive catastrophe.
> When I was little I 
> fondly called them, "after the nuke," books, though
> that category has come 
> to encompass a variety of catastrophes  creating
> categories like  after the 
> pandemic, after global warming, etc.  So with
> Netflix making it easy to see 
> videos, and the almost certainty I'll be able to
> read, Children of Men," 
> compliments of Bookshare, I opted out of going to
> see the movie today.
> 
> Robin Williams is still an interesting read, though
> not as light as it was 
> at first. He has more excuses for his bad behavior
> than kids who don't do 
> their homework.
> 
> Always with love,
> 
> Lissi
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Cindy" <cindyr@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2007 5:32 AM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: P D James book request
> and thanks
> 
> 
> > I'mlike you, Lissi--I can read books that are
> scary (though I usually look 
> > at the end first so I don't get too tense) but I
> don't like to see movies 
> > that are scary. However, watching a video at home
> isn't so bad, since the 
> > screen is smaller and I can leave the room if a
> scene bothers me too much; 
> > then my husband can tell me when it's over and I
> can come back. smile
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Sent: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 02:36:39 -0500
> >> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] P D James book request
> and thanks
> >>
> >> Dear Bookshare Volunteers,
> >>
> >> Tomorrow I'm going to see the movie, Children of
> Men which Fandango says
> >> is
> >> based on a book by P. D. James. As far as my
> search can tell, we don't
> >> have
> >> this book in the collection. If anyone is
> interested in scanning it, I'd
> >> be
> >> glad to validate or be just as glad if someone
> else wants to validate it.
> >>
> >> The movie summary says it's a near future story
> about a world where the
> >> youngest citizen, an 18 year old has just died
> and there is an
> >> infertility
> >> crisis. A bureaucrat is brought to a pregnant
> woman. he attempts to take
> >> her
> >> to a place where she can have her baby in safety
> and scientists might
> >> discover why she alone was able to become
> pregnant.
> >>
> >> One of the first books I downloaded and read from
> Bookshare was an Adam
> >> Dalgliesh mystery, and I just downloaded 6 more
> that I haven't read yet.
> >> We
> >> also have a P. D. James book about a woman
> detective's first case, but I
> >> didn't know James had written speculative
> fiction. If the movie is too
> >> violent, I'll be in the lobby reading a bookshare
> download on my braille
> >> note. For some reason I can read books which are
> too intense for me in
> >> movie
> >> form, and, I almost always prefer the book to the
> movie because there are
> >> more details in the book and I'm not missing
> anything by not being able
> >> to
> >> see the screen.
> >>
> >> As I was downloading, I noticed some names of
> volunteers who did the
> >> scanning so thanks to Jane, Kaitlyn, Rick Carrie
> and others who worked on
> >> these books.
> >>
> >> Always with love,
> >>
> >> Lissi
> >>
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