Is it just me or does he strangely look like Benedict Cumberbatch?

Not listening to all the songs on an album, or not finishing a TV show, is in no way equivalent to "reading" a novel by skipping every other page.

That'd be like watching a movie by fast forwarding past certain scenes, or skipping the first minute of a song.

LMAO, are you deliberately farming downvotes or something?

If you don't like a book, why read it for pleasure?

But moreover, why do you care so much what others think? If you enjoy reading novels by skipping every other page.... Why should anyone else care?

How'd you know my birth wasn't filmed? Away with your prying sorceries!

.... Wait what? How am I only finding out today that Forest Gump was based on a book? That's wild!

Like you say, it of course various.

But unless an author has explicitly said they don't like it, I can't imagine most of them are opposed to fan mail. I know I enjoy reading folk's thoughts on my work.

As long as you're not, like.... harrasing them or something, surely it's fine?

"The moon has good perspective."

Yep, certified 20/20 vision.

... Yes. But...... So you think the moon just constantly stays in one position indefinitely? And that that somehow simultaneously makes it omnipresent?

LMAO, true or not, I really enjoyed this shower post.

The hell planet are you living on that the moon's constantly in your presence? What sorta Majora's Mask faffery is this?

The entire point of speculative fiction is to take reality, reshape it, and use the result to express and exemplify very real principles concerning humanity or the world at large. Much the same way art in general does. If you're ignoring that simply because Frodo never lived.... I don't know what to say to you. That's very unfortunate indeed.

Do you then also not understand analogies, or parables, then?

What about the Great Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio) movie, or Life of Pi?

No kidding.

Glares at the LotR trilogy

Wait... There are folks who can read without imagining the words spoken in their mind? How the hell does that work? If you're not "hearing" the words in some way, how are you receiving and processing their information at all?

I love both, but I openly admit to preferring a good movie over a good book. There a problem with that?

The movie is so astoundingly good that I can't really imagine the book being better. Much like the Great Gatsby movie, it fully embraces the visual and auditory medium of film to embellish and extrapolate upon the story's themes in ways literature simply isn't able to. The opening scene alone, displaying the raw beauty of nature, is impossible to convey solely through words.

Still, definitely wanna give Life of Pi a read. Who knows? Odds are, it actually will somehow be better than the movie, as these things usually are.

Out of curiosity, have you seen the Leonardo DiCaprio movie? Because I completely agree with your assessment of the book, but think the movie conversely nailed everything the book was awkwardly trying and failing to convey. The themes absolutely glow in the movie, radiant and mesmerizing, while the book plods along, tripping over its own plot and glossing over everything important.

Agreed. But, probably for different reasons.

My first exposure to the story was via the Leonardo DiCaprio movie, which is breathtakingly beautiful and stunning. I was so enraptured by it that I read the book post-haste, only to find it falling flat on virtually every plot point which the movie had conversely handled so perfectly. The only reason I managed to actually derive any enjoyment from the book is because it simply reminded me of the movie.

I think it's probably the only case where I think the movie is actually better than the book. And by a flatout mile. Perhaps also Life of Pi, though I've not read that yet, just seen the movie.

And that's coming from someone who thinks the Lord of the Ring movies are an utter butchering of the source material. I'm generally not one to like book-to-movie-adaptations.