The Shining (Part 1)

The biggest challenge would occur with any book trying to be adapted into a movie counterpart, not just The Shining, but in specifics, the hardest part of adapting Stephen King’s classic would be the small, integrate detail. Every chapter acts as one scene, so you can imagine how much detail goes into describing a whole 10-15 page chapter. I like the movie a lot and I think it does a great job of adapting the book and making it into its own art. 

Book Project 1

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

 

This book was published by Vintage Books

© 2005 by Norstedts Agency

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Just reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is too dynamic. Just watching The Girl with the Dragon Tattoois too dynamic. Wouldn’t it be nice to get away from this “dynamic” negativity with a one of kind way to experience The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo in a brand new outlet?

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What Is a Book?

A book is simply what you make of it. Some people read books to laugh, some people read books to learn and some people read books because they're bored. A book is what you make of it. With this whole "technology" age that we are starting to be drowned in; a book might change form or published in a different way but the overall meaning of a book will never change. The print industry is dying, period. We still might have millions of books being published in print everyday but the fact of the matter is, in the future that beautiful smell of fresh pages will be beside us. Kindles, iPads and other technology are taking the industry by storm and shaking things up a bit. This is a capitalistic society so whatever is making the most money will stick around. Sorry for the print industry but in reality, it is dying. Ebooks are hitting all-time highs and soon they will start to sell more than what is being currently circulated, so with that, why would this capitalistic society go back or try to go back to regular print versions of books? This economy runs on this thought, "don't fix what isn't broken," so if Ebooks are working, then stick with them even though it might be a taboo decision. Me being in journalism, a "newspaper guy" if you will,  I feel why people are getting upset with Ebooks and why they "ruin" a classic print industry because the same thing is happening with newspapers and their form of print. I have come to learn that you can't compete with technology, it is impossible, I guess that's why it's called technology, because it is smarter than all of us. I always used to feel nervous or apprehensive about becoming a journalist because of the notion that "newspapers are dying" but now, I really have formed a different opinion, the opinion of reality and really that's how everyone should start to feel, books or newspapers. In 20 years there will be no more print newspapers and probably very few or no print versions of books. That's reality right there, technology will take over and in the newspaper buisnesses' case, it will be totally irrelevant. What technology does is makes our lives easier and if you think about that harder, it steals jobs away. Using the newspaper example, the Internet is the death of print journalism (also a bad economy can adhere to that), that's technology isn't it? Newspapers might be only online, on an iPad, whatever the case is, but what won't change is the purpose of a newspaper. Just think about in 20-50 years where this world will be, I have no idea what will happen but the one thing that is for sure, is it will be different, just like the print industry is evolving into something new. In both the newspaper business and in the book industry, sure there might be different platforms to read from but really does that change the "meaning of a book?"

What Reading Means To Me

I'm not going to lie, I'm not one to pick up a 500 page novel and start reading it for hours. Reading fiction is something that is growing on me. It's not to say I hate reading, I read everyday, but it is something that doesn't come out of personal entertainment. I mostly read newspapers and magazine articles, so I guess what reading means to me is the source of information and news. Also being a journalist, it is a way that I can improve my own writing. I know so many people in this class love to read and have already been through 10 books in this current unit and I say that is great, but I guess I'm just in another place. The people in my class read books for their entertainment, they read because they love the overall story telling, writing and pleasure of picking up a novel, and finishing it. I just have a different perspective on reading, I use it in another way and that's not a bad thing. Really if were talking about storytelling, I would say that I'm a movie nut, I love movies the same way these people in my class love their books. Books and movies are so interconnected that really they have the same purpose and that's entertaining their audience. I guess a reason why I took this class was the opportunity to read more and in this "other way of entertainment." I see the people in my class and they are so passionate about their reading and maybe I'll never get to that point but I guess taking Best Sellers is a way that I can get to that point.

Stieg Larsson

Three Interesting Facts About Larsson

• When he lived in Sweden, he was the editor inchief  of the magazine Expo
• Before he died in 2004, Larsson delivered the manuscripts of his now famous books such as The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo as well as the sequels, The Girl Who Played With Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
• Larsson died of a heart attack at 50 years old but many people are convinced that the death was induced by the death threats/vulgar abuse he received when he was editor of the Expo

"A double-page ad for Stieg Larsson’s thriller “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” pulls out all the stops: breathless quotes in all-caps (“Is the hype justified? Yes”) and a list of statistics showing many copies have been sold abroad—because 2.7 million Swedes can’t be wrong. (That’s nearly a third of the country’s population."- Ligaya Mishan, from The New Yorker (Prestigious editorial magazine)