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So how many of these have you read? I've read Reconstructing Amelia and think all parents should read it, regardless of gender, regardless of age of their children. It made me glad that I am as strict on my girls as I am. I started Gone Girl but it got boring so I put it down. I may pick it back up, if it's that good.
have not read that. What's it about?
if that was directed at me, is is based on the deaths of a bunch of people fighting a forest fire in i think it was the late 40's at a place called Mann Gulch
It was.
So..... not much of a chick book, then.
Thanks.
Well a bunch of young men burning to death in a fire might appeal to a small demo of women, but otherwise not so much.
Honestly, I don't know how that would appeal to anybody. That's so sad.
So how many of these have you read? I've read Reconstructing Amelia and think all parents should read it, regardless of gender, regardless of age of their children. It made me glad that I am as strict on my girls as I am. I started Gone Girl but it got boring so I put it down. I may pick it back up, if it's that good.
Ender's Game was great. There's a whole series, but I've only read the first one and it works well enough as a standalone.
I'm disappointed from what I've seen about the movie from the trailer, though. It seems like they've heavily PG-13'd it. Maybe it was just because I was so young when I read it, but I remember that book being pretty adult. There are a couple of scenes in particular of brutal violence and graphic nudity that stick out in my memory.
So how many of these have you read? I've read Reconstructing Amelia and think all parents should read it, regardless of gender, regardless of age of their children. It made me glad that I am as strict on my girls as I am. I started Gone Girl but it got boring so I put it down. I may pick it back up, if it's that good.
I understand why they don't include it. But I actually think it is relevant to the story. From what I can gather from the tiny fraction of it that I've seen in the trailer, the overall tone of the school is completely wrong. In the movie it seems like a space-age prep school for rich kids of the future. In the book it felt like a brutal Spartan academy filled with hazings and kids getting beaten to death.
But they'll sell more tickets this way and won't have to worry about angry soccer moms raising hell because their sheltered little kid saw an ugly waggling penis on the big screen.
Ender's Game was great. There's a whole series, but I've only read the first one and it works well enough as a standalone.
They alter it for the audience - it would have to be critical to the plot/overall story for them to include the nudity (odds are they kept the violence or at least the situations)
The nudity will almost certainly be gone, because it was naked kids in the 8-12 age range. That probably isn't even legal to show.
I'm guessing the scenes where he fights Stilson and Bonzo will still be there, but they'll be toned down quite a bit.
The first couple books are interesting but take on more of a space opera/fantasy feel after ender. I think I've read the first story arch, which is like 5-6 books
They can't be hazed and beaten to death with their clothes on?
Often nudity is a non-necessity. For ratings: you get a certain amount of 'exposure' and 'occurrences' before it becomes 'too much' - a lot of movies get bumped down a notch just by altering things that don't affect the overall plot.
The more important concerns are the many ways in which they'll truncate the book to squish it into a movie - removing and jumbling the overall plot in the process.
I'll have to read the book, now, to contrast and compare.
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