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[noahgibbs]

Back from a lovely weekend camping with meowlzebub. Much fun was had.

I forgot to mention - a few weeks ago I saw "Howl's Moving Castle" with Anton and startled, among others. It's Studio Ghibli, and lives up to their other offerings. Highly recommended. Apparently it's also based on a children's book. I have no idea how similar the book is to the movie.

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[zwol.livejournal.com]

The book is of the same title, and is by Diana Wynne Jones. I highly recommend it.

The primary plot is much the same in the book, but everything else is unrecognizably different. There's no war on, for starters; the tech level is about a hundred years earlier; Sophie's sisters figure far more prominently, the King and his adviser hardly at all.

[teawiththecheat.livejournal.com]

Howl's Moving Castle was reviewed a little while ago in booking_it...check it out:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/booking_it/25908.html

It is on my reading wishlist. :-)

[coyotegrrrl.livejournal.com]

ANYthing by Diana Wynne Jones rocks my socks! I'm so glad she's getting exposure this way, even though I've heard the movie abadons the book about a third of the way through (I have yet to see it myself).

[teawiththecheat.livejournal.com]

The film is worth a viewing. Miyazaki rocks!

Another film I enjoyed that was completely different from the book was Big Fish...the book was awesome in a different way, definitely worth the read.

[coyotegrrrl.livejournal.com]

I actually own Big Fish, but have yet to watch it. I didn't know it was a book. Who by?

[teawiththecheat.livejournal.com]

Daniel Wallace.

[sooperspryte.livejournal.com]

Good book. Not much like the movie. I liked it better, but then perhaps that was because I could actually understand it. Can't wait to see the movie with actual English.. :)

Anton saw it with me, here... did he say if it was better or worse knowing what they were saying?

[angelbob.livejournal.com]

He said he didn't feel (after seeing it in English) like he'd missed much. There were a couple of specific points that were clearer in English, but they didn't add a huge amount (he said) to the story.