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There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
My step-mom just sent me The Red Tent by Anita Diamant. Loving this book. I almost finished it in one day.
I adored this book, and also read it quickly. Unfortunately, I have heard that her subsequent work isn't nearly as good, although I haven't tried it myself.
I picked up a romance novel for 25 cents because it's got the great "gorgeous orphan who might be a missing princess" plotline. The gauche brute who is apparently the hero of the piece siezes her in a fit of passion and lays a kiss on her. He tries to French kiss her, and she yanks loose. "You licked me!" I dropped the book, laughing. It might be a keeper just for that.
A depressing piece from Salon:
"Gabriel García Márquez appears to have finally succumbed to Hollywood's call, signing over the film rights to 'Love in the Time of Cholera,'" reports the Guardian. Marquez reportedly sold the story to Stone Village Pictures for between $1 million and $3 million, and while no directors or cast have been set, "the names of Nicole Kidman (!?!!?!!) and Jude Law (!?!!?!)are already circulating" for the romantic leads. Marquez, despite selling millions of books through the years, is believed to be worried about his finances after several bad investments. The writer, 76, is battling cancer, and has also faced attacks in recent years (most prominently by Susan Sontag) because of his fierce loyalty to Fidel Castro.
Oh dear.
If he needs the money, though ...
If he needs the money he should do it. Heck, if he even wants the money he should do it.
The movie doesn't change his book.
Sure -- of all people he should be the one to make hoards of money off of exploiting his own work.
I have no problem with him selling the book, it's just the inevitable crappy movie they're going to make with Nicole Kidman cast as a Colombian woman. This is the link to the Guardian article
Nicole Kidman cast as a Colombian woman
Oh dear, she's going to do an accent and get an Oscar, isn't she?
the names of Nicole Kidman and Jude Law are already circulating
Is that just because they wrapped that other period angsty love story?
I've never read the book, but "best love story since Romeo & Juliet" isn't the kind of rec that's gonna get me in. R&J were self-centred whiners.
Also! The article spoils the book. I'd never have guessed. I am ruined.