Topic #190: Can a movie be better than the book it was based on?.
I dont think so. As of the moment.
Well first, because I’ve never seen a movie that was based in a book, better than the book, such as, Dear John and The Last Song, they kinda cut short the movie and secondly, because, books are more detailed than movies.
But. Maybe. There are movies out there that are far better than the books they we’re based at, but, i seem to have no luck on finding them.
I’m open for suggestions. XD
All can i remember is, the character in Emily Giffin’s Love The One You’re With. I can’t recall the name of the main female character but her story made me turn the books pages until I finished it.
Maybe, i thought, i was curious on what her next step will be after the “big” things happened to her. Before a chapter ends, my mind is already formulating on what the next chapter will be. I don’t know, but i am fond of guessing about what will happen next in a story, and often than not i always have something the same with the story and my guess. I’m a genius when it comes to predicting, through, of course based on the previous happenings.
And i just can’t stop thinking, on how she manage to wreck and put together her family.
Ps: Sorry I’m to exited for my cousin’s wedding that i havent slept until now! I’m all giddy. And I just can’t make a good post if all i have in mind is the wedding. K. Bye. :)
To self: As if i make good posts. Hahaha
I also made a compilation of my favorite quotations from the book, click here to check it out.
I see books and magazines around me, mostly my new purchases.
Take a peak,
If you don’t know i love to read, and i want to credit my mom for that because we both love books, even my dad though but my mom is more addicted. :) We can build a big library if our books and magazine are combined, which probably won’t happen because every year we put those old ones on boxes and keep them in the storage room or just under our beds. Haha.
Page 2: I wondered I was so startled by the encounter when there was something that seems utterly inevitable about the moment. Not in any grand, destined sense; just in the quiet, stubborn way that unfinished business has of imposing it’s will on the unwilling.
Page 5: Because as much as I didn’t want to admit, he was sure right about that. That some things never change.
Page 7: Things are seldom as neat and tidy as that starry-eyed anecdote your share documentary-style on a couch.
And unless you marry your high school sweetheart (and even sometimes then), there are usually a not-so-glorious back story.
But no matter what you call it, it seems that every couple has two stories –the edited one to be shared from the couch and the unabridged version, best left alone.
Page 14: Being evasive could translate as an attempt to be flirtatious or coy: Guess where I am. Come find me, why don’t you.
So what is the big deal about seeing an ex-boyfriend, having a little polite conversation? Besides, if I were to flee, wouldn’t I be playing a game that I have no business of playing? A game that was lost a long time ago?
Page 16: The opposite of love is indifference
Page 27: I was acutely aware of Leo’s every small move. I watched him stretch and yawn. I watched him fold his newspaper and stow it under his chair. I watched him saunter out the room and return with a pack of peanut butter cracker which he ate openly despite the No food or Drinks signs posted around the room.
I was intrigued in an inexplicable, unprecedented way.
Page 35: That despite our different tastes, he never makes me turn my music off or down. Andy is the opposite of a control freak. A Manhattan litigator with a surfer boy, live-and-let-live, no worries mentality.
Page 52: I’m not saying its healthy to be past-obsessed, ferreting out details of every ex. But its simply human nature to have an occasional, fleeting interest in someone whom you once loved.
Page 65: And although one broken heart doesn’t make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things –time and an emotional replacement –to fully mend one.
Page 105: And although some might have criticized our first time lacking spontaneity, I would have changed a thing about it. And still wouldn’t.
Page 118: She said everyone needs to get dumped once –that its part of life –and that obviously things weren’t meant to be.
Page 121: ‘Cause there are very few things worse than a man who doesn’t know his place.
Page 132: “No matter how much or how little two people you love have in common.. Or whether they overlap or have a decade between them… or whether they hate each others guts or know absolutely nothing about one another… they’re still linked in some strange way.
Page 198: What appeals to you the most is the very thing that will drive you crazy.
Page 253: She’s still a bitch with an amazing entitlement, but at least she’s a lighthearted bitch with an amazing entitlement.
Page 289: Change can be good… sometimes.
But it’s always tough to let go of the past.
Page 316: Love is the sum of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together.
Natapos ko nang basahin ang “Ang mga kaibigan ni Mama Susan” ni Bob Ong. Pero. Putek. Hindi ko magets kong anong kunek nun dun sa mga spanish writings na nandun. Naguguluhan ako at the moment.
Ewan ko ba. Hindi ko magets ang deeper meaning nun, though naintindihan ko naman yung story niya, pero alam mo yung parang sa last books na sinulat niya may different meanings, eto ngayon hindi ako makapagisip e.
Or. Baka hindi ko talaga nagets, dahil nanunuod ako ng tv habang nagbabasa, pero, hindi rin, ginagawa ko naman talaga yun e. Ah basta. Babasahin ko ulit ‘tong libro kung saan tahimik at nakakaconcentrate ako sa libro lang. Bleh!
Dahil sa Vigan ang pinakamalapit na NBS dito, nagpabili ako sa pinsan ko at kanina na hagkan ko na ang libro ko, ito ay ang ika walong libro ni Bob Ong, Ang Mga Kaibigan ni Mama Susan. Ang cute, violet ang cover. Halfway palang ako, at hindi ko alam kung kelan ako matatpos, baka sa wednesday, kasi may exam ako bukas at sa tuesday, kailangang mag review.
heto, ganito siya.
Ang mga kaibigan ni Mama Susan by Bob Ong
Ika-walong libro ni Bob Ong
And now, i leave you with a kiss. Mua. :)
So, John helped Savannah retrieve her bag then “snap” everything fell into place. At that first moment, they really clicked and the spark just emerged into nowhre.
Love is really found when we least expect to happen to us.
It’s quite unbelievable on how they just fell inlove in just a -eye-to-eye contact with each other, i mean can that really happen? She saw you, and you saw him and then just that you love each other already? I would really love life more if love is like that, love is created in just an eye-to-eye!
With Savannah, being so patient and understanding but in the same way too straighforward, id love to be like her. She’s going on the lil perfect side already, being a good girlfriend loving daughter, teacher and stuff? its hard to be on a place where you have many stuffs attached with you, cause i know that i can only multi-task about 3 things –text, conputer and talk sometimes eat too. :)
The Savannah falling out of love to John is normal cause everybody falls out of love when the person you love is so far away, and that what he promised you didnt turn out the way you wanted and someone comforted you and you always see that person and you always hangout. And with the letter thing, yea, everybody will stop writing too much the moment something is filling their time, that, that time is suppose to be the time she/he is thinking of you.
However, with the money. Its really love that caused John to sell all the coins his dad gave him. I mean, its a memorabilla and you’ll just sell it for someone who have the love of the person you love.
After reading the book “The Fifth Mountain” written by Paulo Coelho I realized and learned many things.
