They’ve made a movie of the children’s book (1963!) Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak.
A few side notes:
- I’d like to do a study that correlates reading Where the Wild Things Are as a child, and a lifelong love of books. I suspect they are closely related.
- Why do we get excited about movies of books we love? I think it has something to do with what I talked about at BookNet: it gives us more time to spend with something we love.
- The Arcade Fire are pretty great, no?
- Wikipedia has some dismally-written articles (yes, I know, I can edit them myself; I’m too busy writing this) … I’d love to see us build a truly community-driven LibriPedia.org … OpenLibrary.org is trying to go in that direction, but there is no community to speak of, and without community it just can’t work. Or maybe it can.
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I think you’re absolutely right about spending more time with the things we love. It’s the reason Hollywood turns out sequels; people want to see their favorite characters once more.
So often disappointing, but there are rare treats. Anyone have any favourite book –> movie conversions.