Get the fuck out of here. Read better books. There's a difference between lulls in the action and filler. Ups and downs make for good story telling. All ups would be retarded.
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Get the fuck out of here. Read better books. There's a difference between lulls in the action and filler. Ups and downs make for good story telling. All ups would be retarded.
It would, in fact, be Shoot 'Em Up.
I don't necessarily mean action, there are just always parts of a book where it's kinda like "Ugh ok go on" I have never read a book that wasn't like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr-K
Recommend me one of your favorite books and I'll go give it a shot. I'm sure I'll enjoy it, but it won't make me think "Ugh why even watch movies."
Ah, yes. The time-honored "I DIDN'T LIKE YOUR FAVORITE BOOK, YOU ARE RONG" technique.
lol imagine the book adaptation for that movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
If it's consistent enough then it doesn't matter if I truly love the book. I don't have to like something to say "ok well this does in fact have a constant sense of (Whatever the book is trying to accomplish) I may not have loved the story but I at least got (Whatever the book is trying to accomplish) Out of it."Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
No way is it going to match up 100% with me.
I hope his "better books" do not include Dianetics.
Books are well beyond just the story; if you only care about the pure narrative then you should just watch movies. I think you just don't get the difference between a movie and a book.
Moby Dick is the best example. I mean you could write the narrative as just:
Hey I'm Ishmael, sup, what the fuck I have to spend the night with some Maori dude, I hope he doesn't harpoon my arse. Let's go whaling! Fuck, this captain guy is nuts, all he cares about is catching this dumb fucking White Sperm Whale, for like a gold doubloon? Shit, the only reason we're out here is to catch it? Fuck. Oh wow, the upper decks have lit up like candles from the will o wisp, BAD OMENS! Oh shit, HI2U other whaling ship. No we are not going to help you because you got owned by the white whale and our dumb captain wants to kill it, bye! THAR SHE BLOWS. *chases whale for a while* OMFG he sunk our ship, stupid cracker whale; it's ok, I'll use the Maori dudes coffin as a boat.
I mean, have you ever really seen a movie or TV series version of Moby Dick? It's NOTHING like the book. It makes you realise that the allegory of the narrative is just the skeleton to hang the flesh of all the "filler"; and the "filler" is what actually gives lift to the book. Otherwise, it would just be a nice little parable about obession leading to a fall.
Why are we still talking about this?
P.S. I shiver everytime I read the bit where Herman Melville talks about how everyone is stupid for thinking whales are not fish and are mammals.