November 2010
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“This was like consulting hyenas on the future of a wounded wildebeest.” - Bob Garfield http://ping.fm/6fK2Q
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“books can’t be unbundled”
– Frédéric Filloux
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an attractive web-based e-book design
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How not to translate a novel into a film:
Like Five-Minute Shakespeare, the film adaptation of Stieg Larson’s The Girl Who Played With Fire” (2009) is just staccato shorthand, meaningless if you haven’t read the book.
If you’re seeking entertainment, forego the movies, just read the books.
It’s not easy translating a story across media. It takes a capable screenwriter, who groks the medium of the new project, and the...
a half century after publication, “The Catcher in the Rye” reads like historical fiction. (1/3 through it.)
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