[bookshare-discuss] Re: a fun topic, summer chunksters

  • From: "lana" <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 09:03:52 -0600

Movie is a bit slow, and of course leaves things out, but not bad, and
pretty faithful to the book.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:40 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: a fun topic, summer chunksters


> I've been afraid to watch the movie, which is
> available frommy library, for fear I'd be
> disapppointed, but after reading what you said, and
> since it's been a while since I read the book, I guess
> I will get it. Thanks for the input.
>
> Cindy
>
> --- lana <lana5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The problem with Pivillians is that he reached his
> > high point in the middle of the book when his
> > princess was about to be made (I don't know how to
> > spell this) Satee.  The movie did it much better,
> > and that's saying something from one who doesn't
> > like it when movie-makeers play havock with the
> > plot, but what they did worked.  They put the siege
> > at Kabool before the rescue.  It wouldn't work the
> > way she was sticking to historical time, but it
> > should have been written that way.  That whole
> > Kabool thing was to convince the British that Ash
> > was dead; so he and, (now I really can't spell her
> > name) could vanish into the hills.
> > Names are why bookshare is better than talkingbooks.
> >
> >   ----- Original Message ----- 
> >   From: Kellie Hartmann
> >   To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >   Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 9:20 PM
> >   Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: a fun topic,
> > summer chunksters
> >
> >
> >   Hi Amber,
> >   I just read a book called the Far Pavilions by M.
> > M. K. It's about a British guy who was raised in
> > India by former servants of his deceased parents.
> > The book is over 2100 pages in braille, and I found
> > the history of British imperialism, Indian
> > traditions, and Afghanistan interesting. I didn't
> > care for the ending of the book because it made me
> > think the author just got tired of writing, but
> > there was enough interesting and informative in the
> > book to make it worth reading anyway.
> >   Kellie
>
>
>
>
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