Book Reading......
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disneydream06Well, I just finished up book No. 25.
I went with another classic and it was sadly a struggle. I just finished reading Swiss Family Robinson.
Usually when I read a book and see a movie the books are better. Some times the movie will compare quite well.
Sadly, this was not the case. Swiss Family Robinson the book is dullsville compared to the movie.
The book is written as though it's the journal written by the father.
The family is from Switzerland but come across as being right off the Puritan Mayflower. The parents are continually admonishing the children from wrong deeds, thoughts, etc. Yet they continually describe their second son with every form of laziness in the dictionary. Simply because he is more of a book worm then an athletic gun toting go getter. If the movie were made today, he would be the gay son. LOL..........
The father is of course a compete genius and can fix/make/classify anything they need or see. And the island has everything they could possible need, but other humans.
Book vs Movie:
Book: 3 sons Movie: 4 sons
Book: Kind of cool tree house Movie: Way cool tree house
Book: Tree house, Tent house, Cave house, Farm house, Cottage house Movie: Tree house
Book: No other humans Movie: Pirates and a captive captain and his granddaughter dressed like a boy
I think you get the picture.
This time Disney really helped the story.
Grade: C
Book List 2012:
1. Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis
2. The Avengers: Too Many Targets by John Peel and Dave Rogers
3. The Journey of Crazy Horse by Joseph M. Marshall III
4. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
5. Eva Braun by Heika B. Gortemaker
6. Bound in Flesh by David Thomas Lord
7. All of Me by Anne Murray and Michael Posner
8. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
9. Bloody Bones by Laurell K. Hamilton
10. Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
11. The Killing Dance by Laurell K. Hamilton
12. An American Original Walt Disney by Bob Thomas
13. Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
14. Audition by Barbara Walters
15. Kingdom Keepers V Shell Game by Ridley Pearson
16. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
17. The Queen Mother by William Shawcross
18. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
19. The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
20. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
21. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
22. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
23. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
24. The Hound of the Bskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
25. Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
I went with another classic and it was sadly a struggle. I just finished reading Swiss Family Robinson.
Usually when I read a book and see a movie the books are better. Some times the movie will compare quite well.
Sadly, this was not the case. Swiss Family Robinson the book is dullsville compared to the movie.
The book is written as though it's the journal written by the father.
The family is from Switzerland but come across as being right off the Puritan Mayflower. The parents are continually admonishing the children from wrong deeds, thoughts, etc. Yet they continually describe their second son with every form of laziness in the dictionary. Simply because he is more of a book worm then an athletic gun toting go getter. If the movie were made today, he would be the gay son. LOL..........
The father is of course a compete genius and can fix/make/classify anything they need or see. And the island has everything they could possible need, but other humans.
Book vs Movie:
Book: 3 sons Movie: 4 sons
Book: Kind of cool tree house Movie: Way cool tree house
Book: Tree house, Tent house, Cave house, Farm house, Cottage house Movie: Tree house
Book: No other humans Movie: Pirates and a captive captain and his granddaughter dressed like a boy
I think you get the picture.
This time Disney really helped the story.
Grade: C
Book List 2012:
1. Schulz and Peanuts by David Michaelis
2. The Avengers: Too Many Targets by John Peel and Dave Rogers
3. The Journey of Crazy Horse by Joseph M. Marshall III
4. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
5. Eva Braun by Heika B. Gortemaker
6. Bound in Flesh by David Thomas Lord
7. All of Me by Anne Murray and Michael Posner
8. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
9. Bloody Bones by Laurell K. Hamilton
10. Lords and Ladies by Terry Pratchett
11. The Killing Dance by Laurell K. Hamilton
12. An American Original Walt Disney by Bob Thomas
13. Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
14. Audition by Barbara Walters
15. Kingdom Keepers V Shell Game by Ridley Pearson
16. Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
17. The Queen Mother by William Shawcross
18. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
19. The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter
20. The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
21. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
22. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll
23. Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne
24. The Hound of the Bskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
25. Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss
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