I've never personally heard a Christian evangelist reference "the original superhero, Jesus Christ" in an effort to get people listening, but if they do in fact do that, I wonder if they've modernized to "You want to hear about a young adult who fought against Hell, the biggest dystopia there is?"

Odd. I see a lot of commonalities between the two, but maybe I just haven't read Jordan recently enough to see otherwise (I've been reading a lot of Sanderson). I don't know Jordan's personal politics, but he didn't do a great job with women and non-white characters in his books, so maybe that's some of the pushback.

Odd. I see a lot of commonalities between the two, but maybe I just haven't read Jordan recently enough to see otherwise (I've been reading a lot of Sanderson). I don't know Jordan's personal politics, but he didn't do a great job with women and non-white characters in his books, so maybe that's some of the pushback.

I meant more the current generation of books than any adaptations. "Sleek" is not the word I would use to describe Brandon Sanderson.

Good point of comparison, and I'd say yes, rather less traumatizing. There's one brutal owl-induced death that opens the first book in the series, but after that, I think everyone either lives or dies peacefully.

It seems like pretty much every Dahl book, even the relatively minor ones, got a movie sometime in the 80's and 90's. I think The BFG is being remade at the moment.

Would that 'easy to do' editing involve reducing books 4-10 to a single episode?

Honestly, I loved the series (the first half of it, or so), and I think it might be one of those things like Calvin and Hobbes or Achewood that's just singular enough that we ought to leave it alone. If nothing else I'm not sure how they'd make up for not having Jacques' excellent prose.

I was 11 or so and it stuck with me pretty hard. (Obviously so, because I was able to recall all that years after reading it) I remember thinking basically "Isn't this supposed to be the part where the main character gets to be happy again? He won, right?"

I wouldn't compare the two myself. Redwall's a fantasy epic, but Poppy is just animals living in the woods and trying to not get eaten, only they can talk.

I wouldn't compare the two myself. Redwall's a fantasy epic, but Poppy is just animals living in the woods and trying to not get eaten, only they can talk.

Not really. It's got a very made-for-tv movie cast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

(Spoilers for a 15-year-old series) Jake, the human commander, wins the definitive battle by blasting a ship with 17,000 innocent Yeerks on it, and his cousin and brother die in battle. People praise him for his victory, but he feels like a murderer and a war criminal. He basically never gets over it, and goes back…

They talked about in the main article. Never seen it, but everything I've heard says it's not good. L'Engle hated it. Apparently they made it too mushy, and it's not like it was Lovecraft-style cynical and despairing to begin with.

Well, someone did just modernize it, and it apparently didn't go so well.

There should have been a good, high-rent adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time by now. The book itself is amazingly timeless, like with a few edits it could have come out last week. And Meg > 90% of YA heroines all damn day.

I think people assumed "Kids, talking animals, magic, eh, it's basically Narnia, right?" When…no.

Its (and Hunger Games') inclusion reminded me of this: http://www.theonion.com/art…

Corgan's voice is death. (and I'm also a Chicagoan.) I'm not sure how the world survived him and Liam Gallagher getting popular at the same time without going deaf.

I never got into OKC or Kid A at all, even a little. But, for a while, The Bends was one of my favorite albums (and might still squeak into the top 50 or so).