[bksvol-discuss] Re: P D James book request and thanks
- From: Carrie Karnos <ckarnos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 06:26:19 -0800 (PST)
Hi Lissi,
I saw Children of Men on Christmas Day, when it opened, and it's a very
violent movie. Lots of people bite the dust in the movie, and I mean lots.
It's also a very visual movie, with not a large amount of dialogue, so I'm
concerned that you'll miss some of the nuances. Are you going to have a
companion with you who can explain what's going on? Otherwise it will probably
make no sense to you...
Just a suggestion, Carrie
Estelnalissi <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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