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Thanksgiving

Am.So.Full.

4:30pm - begin eating feast, one of 17 extended family members
5:00pm - completely full
6:00ish pm - watch last half hour of Vanilla Sky, no lead-in of what's going. Am unimpressed; they explain everything anyway so watching the first hour and a half is unnecessary.
6:20ish pm - start dishes, all 7 grandchildren + brother's girlfriend in same kitchen
7:00ish pm - start to check email and LJ. Am.So.Full.


Fandom

They're making a movie of Ender's Game.

I invite you to all scream beside me in unrestrained agony.

NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

For more of the horror, go here and scroll down: http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=12681

I don't care how involved the writer is, this is NOT a story that will translate well to a film medium, particularly to an American audience. It's a very popular American book, even used in several high school cirriculums, but it's just not the kind o thing that translates well into films. We're not talking LOTR here. This can only be a mistake.

Of course I'll see it anyway, but I just know it will break my heart. Broken, broken, broken.

For me, as a 14 year old, Ender's Game was a change-your-life book that I wish someone had given to me at 9 or 10, instead. One of my top 4 favorite books EVER. I love it so much that I haven't even read the sequels yet for fear that I won't like them and it will taint my perfect love of the original.

I can't bear the thought of it as a poorly done film. Broken, broken, broken heart.

Comments

[mercy.livejournal.com]

I love it so much that I haven't even read the sequels yet for fear that I won't like them and it will taint my perfect love of the original.

I'm glad I'm not the only person that feels this way. Oh and don't feel bad that you read it at 14 I didn't get to read the book till I was 24 (it was still a life changing experience).

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm glad you've read it, and that it affected you too. The books that do that... it's something amazing. One of the things I'm most afraid of is that the story will be softened in order to make it appeal to "kids"... disregarding the fact that it appealed to kids anyway because of the very nature of the violence and the pychological trials these children have to endure,. and the ways in which they not only endure, but beat the system. Because it's written so much from a child's point of view, the violence (the two school fights Ender has, primarily, and the exploration video game he plays) is not off-putting, but something that kids recognize or at least imagine within recognition.