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Gardah229 t1_j3zq4di wrote
Reply to comment by Miss_Speller in "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Leguin affected me like few books have done by feanor_imc
Blimey. That is one damn good excerpt.
Gardah229 t1_j3z7ngh wrote
Reply to comment by Miss_Speller in "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Leguin affected me like few books have done by feanor_imc
That's certainly ringing some bells, so I think you're bang on. I've only read The Direction of The Road, and Omelas, so my wider LeGuin knowledge is pretty thin. Must have over-egged the connection in my head. I'll have to give that a read all the same now it's got my attention.
Gardah229 t1_j3yj44l wrote
Reply to comment by introspectrive in "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Leguin affected me like few books have done by feanor_imc
Further research is leading me nowhere. Wishful thinking, it seems.
Gardah229 t1_j3ygsmm wrote
Reply to "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Leguin affected me like few books have done by feanor_imc
Reading this out loud was my introduction to LeGuin. It's so brief, yet I enjoyed every second reading it like that. Dwelling on the imagery longer than I might if I were scanning the page sort of thing.
Gardah229 t1_j3ygbb1 wrote
Reply to comment by introspectrive in "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" by Ursula K. Leguin affected me like few books have done by feanor_imc
I may be plucking this right out of my arse, but didn't LeGuin also write a story that came after, directly focusing on what may have or did happen to the ones that walked away?
Or maybe I'm just getting mixed up with Jemisin's story...
Gardah229 t1_j29ocbe wrote
There's a fantastic adaption of King Lear with Ian McKellen and Sylvester McCoy that was my introduction to Shakespeare and I've loved his works ever since.
If you can find this somewhere, it's worth a watch - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Lear_(2008_film)
Watching and having a footnoted edition with added context will help massively.
David Crystal is also a proponent ofShakespeare in Original Pronunciation, which can drastically alter context, rhyme schemes and puns that would otherwise go missing.
Gardah229 t1_j224san wrote
Reply to comment by Astrid-Wish in What's the worst story change from a book to a movie? by Franz1871
I looked forward to this the moment I heard it was even in the works. Devastating to see where it ended up. It does make me think of the 90's miniseries of The Stand that I've heard was pretty good. I'll have to bump that up the watch list and see if it's worth its salt. Recently found out they released another adaption in the midst of the pandemic that was pretty middling.
Gardah229 t1_ja5fl32 wrote
Reply to Have you ever read a book so good, that rereading it is physically painful? by CreepyTarot
I tried re-reading Stephen King's 11/22/63 after watching the Hulu adaption. King might not be the biggest hitter for emotional reads, but knowing the ending that was approaching just hurt my heart more with each page. I couldn't do it. I tend not to re-read anything in general except LOTR, but that was almost the exception.