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serafina20Holes
This movie is based off the young adult book by Louis Sachar. It won a Newberry Medal. I own about three or four copies of the book. The first time I read it was about two years ago; my mother had subbed in a fifth grade class and started it. Once she started, she couldn't stop and once she finished the bought it and gave it to me to read. I read it in one afternoon, and I remember getting really into it. The characters are great, especially Stanley and Zero, the two main characters. They are both inmates at Camp Green Lake, which is a correctional facility for boys in the middle of Texas. The philosophy of the camp is that if you take a bad boy and make him dig holes, he will turn into a good boy. The book itself is about destiny and choices, and how our choices affect our destiny.
I was nervous about the movie. Not only do movies tend to skew books and take away a lot of the message or meaning, but this movie was made by Disney. I half expected the boys to break out in song, the Warden to be a nice lady, and for everything to be different.
It was the same. Wonderfully the same. The boys did a great job acting, the plot moved and meshed better than I could hope, and the messages still came across in a non-preachy way. It was terrific. I can't wait until I see it again.
Cerulean Sins by Laurell K. Hamilton
Eh. It was okay. More like fanfic than a novel, since it centers almost entirely on Antia's relationships with everyone and on no real plot. The end was riviting since she got invovled in a case, but where as in the early books, the case would have been the foucus, in this book, it was sort of added on in the end. I really do enjoy Anita Blake, but Hamilton needs to start writing plot again and cut back on the "and then the ardure rose and I had to spend the next two hours fucking everyone." And I'm going to tell her that next Friday when I go to the book signing (ha. as if I were that brave)
This movie is based off the young adult book by Louis Sachar. It won a Newberry Medal. I own about three or four copies of the book. The first time I read it was about two years ago; my mother had subbed in a fifth grade class and started it. Once she started, she couldn't stop and once she finished the bought it and gave it to me to read. I read it in one afternoon, and I remember getting really into it. The characters are great, especially Stanley and Zero, the two main characters. They are both inmates at Camp Green Lake, which is a correctional facility for boys in the middle of Texas. The philosophy of the camp is that if you take a bad boy and make him dig holes, he will turn into a good boy. The book itself is about destiny and choices, and how our choices affect our destiny.
I was nervous about the movie. Not only do movies tend to skew books and take away a lot of the message or meaning, but this movie was made by Disney. I half expected the boys to break out in song, the Warden to be a nice lady, and for everything to be different.
It was the same. Wonderfully the same. The boys did a great job acting, the plot moved and meshed better than I could hope, and the messages still came across in a non-preachy way. It was terrific. I can't wait until I see it again.
Cerulean Sins by Laurell K. Hamilton
Eh. It was okay. More like fanfic than a novel, since it centers almost entirely on Antia's relationships with everyone and on no real plot. The end was riviting since she got invovled in a case, but where as in the early books, the case would have been the foucus, in this book, it was sort of added on in the end. I really do enjoy Anita Blake, but Hamilton needs to start writing plot again and cut back on the "and then the ardure rose and I had to spend the next two hours fucking everyone." And I'm going to tell her that next Friday when I go to the book signing (ha. as if I were that brave)
