well, after a gap of about 15 or more days, here i am with my next post.well,this delay in posting is not for want of trying,you know(in my defence!).. it's more because, each time i started seriously putting pen to paper, i ended up with 1 or 2 paragraphs. while they might have been grammatically perfect, they did not really do justice to the thoughts or the feelings that i wanted to convey. anyway,determined to overcome my writer's block(perhaps,it really isn't writer's block.. only writers are afflicted with writer's block, right?!!?),here goes..
most people who know me also know that i am pretty seriously addicted to books.until i finish reading a particular book, it almost feels like my whole universe revolves around it, which is why i read them only during the holidays. but, point is, reading books transports you to another world and it is sort of refreshing to look at things from another person's perspective.
that brings me to a discussion i was having with my friends quite sometime ago. it was about a charcter from a popular book, who could read people's minds, or to be more precise, could hear their thoughts. we were thinking aloud on how interesting it would be to have that particular gift. but one thing we all agreed on was it would definitely not be interesting the other way aroud. i.e. to have your mind read by someone.. i think that is where books provide the perfect solution because they allow you to actually get to know for yourself the thought processes of all the characters.
but then, that is probably why movie adaptations of books don't do that well. the reader after having read the book would have formed a different impression about the characters, the settings and so on. but the movie being shot from the author's or the director's point of view would definitely disappoint die hard fans of the books. for instance, i had envisioned the hogwarts of the harry potter series quite differently and was sorely disappointed on watchng the movie. and the 4th movie especially looked more like a powerpoint presentation of selected scenes than like a full-fledged movie.
well, as i am running out of things to write, this is the end of this post. i sure do love the fact that i can write whatever i want. hoping the next post will be more coherent.
P.S. i should probably call this blog "mindless ramblings"!
ha ha ha i kinda agree with you.....:) when you read a book you actually fit into the shoes of the characte. there lies the difference between books and movies....:)
ReplyDeleteYou got me liking 'incoherent, mindless and rambling'..keep it up. :)
ReplyDeleteAnd yea..most movies don't do justice to their books at all. Completely disliked the HP movies..warped versions of the books. But try the Lord of the Rings movies...they're quite good when you compare the LOR books..
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ReplyDeleteyup.. thats why i prefer books to movies :)
@bookworm;)
nice to know that you like my rambling :) as for the LOTR movies, you're probably right. i haven't actually watched the movies, but the book made me sleep.. one of the very few books i started but never completed!
macha, when you write anything except college stuff you are automatically termed as a writer :P HP6 was such a saavu movie. oru mannum purila. blink an eye, miss the story worth about 20 pages.
ReplyDeleteyou put a lot of thought into thought processes :D adhanala "mindless" is ruled out. I didn't find it incoherent but it ended rather abruptly. And the words ramblings, musings, insight*, thoughts, memories, confessions, random, arbitrary are so CLICHED!!! onnoda blog paerlayae innonu irukum. athana iruku. You definitely can come up with an awesome different name! Good luck! :D
*sadly mine included.
thank you keerthi. am a big fan of your blog :)
ReplyDeletethank you for the honest feedback.. and ya, ill try to think of a different name soon. looking forward to reading your post for this blogaton.