tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post7674590222806284183..comments2024-03-27T18:23:34.322+08:00Comments on WEBS OF SIGNIFICANCE: Four BooksYTSLhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930487923185001591noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-1496459422728995902007-11-04T11:32:00.000+08:002007-11-04T11:32:00.000+08:00Hi Willow --If you like children's books (especial...Hi Willow --<BR/><BR/>If you like children's books (especially those involving animals, <BR/>"real" and nursery ones), then "Winnie the Pooh" should worth checking out even now. <BR/><BR/>Re Anchee Min: "Becoming Madame Mao" seems to be highly recommended. It might have to wait a bit since after reading a book called "Chinese Lessons", I now feel compelled to read more about Mao himself first..YTSLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09930487923185001591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-56538918548114433282007-11-04T01:54:00.000+08:002007-11-04T01:54:00.000+08:00I've never read Winnie the Pooh. Perhaps I shall. ...I've never read Winnie the Pooh. Perhaps I shall. <BR/><BR/>I've read all of Anchee Min's works. Princess Orchid and Becoming Madame Mao are the best, imo. Sa Shan's Empress was pretty good. It's like a Princess Orchid.<BR/><BR/>I also couldn't get into Charles Dickens which was tough bc my grade school English teacher had us studying his novels.Willowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08180535915452293414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-86215941998696851872007-11-03T17:44:00.000+08:002007-11-03T17:44:00.000+08:00Hi again A. --Hmmm... there seems to be quite a fe...Hi again A. --<BR/><BR/>Hmmm... there seems to be quite a few fans of Winnie the Pooh, and Jane Austen, among this blog's readers! ;D<BR/><BR/>The DVD of "Whispers and Moans" is already out over here in Hong Kong. Maybe you might wish to buy it from a Hong Kong/Asian online video store?<BR/><BR/>Hi Alejna --<BR/><BR/>Yeah, I read your "overloaded" posts... so am doubly glad that you've decided YTSLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09930487923185001591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-18009620270477386382007-11-03T11:19:00.000+08:002007-11-03T11:19:00.000+08:00Hi!Sorry to be so slow to comment. I'm a bit overl...Hi!<BR/><BR/>Sorry to be so slow to comment. I'm a bit overloaded these days...<BR/><BR/>Anyhow, I'll gladly participate. What with NaBloPoMo, I'll be needing regular inspiration. <BR/><BR/>And I totally, heartily, completely agree about the classic Pooh illustrations being superior to the Disneyfied ones.alejnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07220142310790773053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-756772647503541822007-11-03T01:59:00.000+08:002007-11-03T01:59:00.000+08:00I'm back, with my thoughts at least partially coll...I'm back, with my thoughts at least partially collected :)<BR/>Winnie the Pooh, I don't know why I didn't think of it , and I couldn't agree more about the illustrations.<BR/>Jane Austen never will be read again - how could you! I have to say I much preferred Pride and Prejudice out of them all.<BR/>Sophie's World - it was one of those books that made me feel I ought to be taking notes. The A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04709794851766685322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-45919521196189343622007-11-01T21:12:00.000+08:002007-11-01T21:12:00.000+08:00Hi again Glenn --More re Dickens: I find that if I...Hi again Glenn --<BR/><BR/>More re Dickens: I find that if I read a page or two at a time of his writings, I enjoy them but the entire books are just too much. OTOH, I'm quite okay with George Elliot and very much enjoyed the gigantic "Middlemarch". So go figure? ;S<BR/><BR/>Hi A. --<BR/><BR/>No need to apologize and thanks again for tagging me for this meme! :)YTSLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09930487923185001591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-43312827824233569002007-11-01T06:28:00.000+08:002007-11-01T06:28:00.000+08:00So sorry to have been so late to get over here. I...So sorry to have been so late to get over here. It's been a particularly arduous time at work, and I'm coming home and collapsing. I'll be back shortly when I've had time to "study" your list:) but I'm already shouting to myself "Oh how did I forget that one"!A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04709794851766685322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-40086774885888278142007-11-01T03:28:00.000+08:002007-11-01T03:28:00.000+08:00Yeah, the Pride and Prejudice with Greer Garson is...Yeah, the Pride and Prejudice with Greer Garson is a great Hollywood film but has little to do with the actual book.<BR/><BR/>I mean, I like the Ronald Colman Tale of Two Cities but it still pales mightily next to the actual book.<BR/><BR/>Same with all film versions of Dickens that I've seen -- all good films but none as complex as the actual novels.<BR/><BR/>As I said on my blog, Grapes of Glenn, kenixfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00735095946077123391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-68116466367049103142007-11-01T00:25:00.000+08:002007-11-01T00:25:00.000+08:00Hi again Glenn --Actually, the film substitutes th...Hi again Glenn --<BR/><BR/>Actually, the film substitutes the concert scene for a lecture in a smaller setting. As for the absence of "Only connect...": Dammit, it's the line that sums everything up! Still, "Howard's End" is not the worst film adaptation of an E.M. Forster book that I've seen. Instead, that "honor" goes to "A Passage to India". <BR/><BR/>Hi leo86 --<BR/><BR/>Sorry but I don't YTSLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09930487923185001591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-2954598053380307162007-10-31T23:43:00.000+08:002007-10-31T23:43:00.000+08:00Oh, come on, YTSL, read "Pride and Prejudice" for ...Oh, come on, YTSL, read "Pride and Prejudice" for heaven's sake! And then watch the 1940 movie of it starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier. You won't regret it.Madarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05447686544525096552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-30578520456434845702007-10-31T21:36:00.000+08:002007-10-31T21:36:00.000+08:00Right, the film of Howard's End had that concert s...Right, the film of Howard's End had that concert scene early on but it only introduces the characters without any details about their feelings.<BR/><BR/>The line is indeed missing, though, even as the filmmakers tried to convey the meaning otherwise.<BR/><BR/>I think Robin Hood was one of the last first run Disney features I saw as a kid -- everything else was a re-issue of a classic or somethingGlenn, kenixfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00735095946077123391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-49310539340551498682007-10-31T19:16:00.000+08:002007-10-31T19:16:00.000+08:00Hi Glenn --Think invitation, not challenge! ;bRe "...Hi Glenn --<BR/><BR/>Think invitation, not challenge! ;b<BR/><BR/>Re "Howard's End": Because it left out my favorite quote of the whole book "Only connect..." Also, there's no Royal Albert Hall scene -- the one where the Schlagel's personalities get revealed by their different reactions to Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. :S<BR/><BR/>Re Pooh: Actually, I specifically meant that I prefer the YTSLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09930487923185001591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-23523387508442926262007-10-31T05:24:00.000+08:002007-10-31T05:24:00.000+08:00On Pooh: I grew up on Disney films as a kid and wh...On Pooh: I grew up on Disney films as a kid and when I got older and read the actual works, felt that I had been cheated in many ways.<BR/><BR/>Disney had Disneyfied complex works like Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland.<BR/><BR/>But with Pooh, I think the Disney version -- the original ones with Sebastian Cabot narrating -- is pretty good.<BR/><BR/>In fact, I'll go out on a limb, and say that Glenn, kenixfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00735095946077123391noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3289278000277019122.post-81058429418076712712007-10-31T03:49:00.000+08:002007-10-31T03:49:00.000+08:00you are throwing down a book challenge to an Engli...you are throwing down a book challenge to an English Lit grad?<BR/><BR/>okay, get ready.<BR/><BR/>I should ask why you didn't like Howard's End (the film)?<BR/><BR/>I liked it quite a bit at the time -- saw it some 10 times in the theaters in DC even -- but now have almost zero interest in it.<BR/><BR/>I recall that the film of Where Angels Fear to Tread was better overall.<BR/><BR/>And I enjoyedGlenn, kenixfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00735095946077123391noreply@blogger.com