TGIF is hosted by Ginger at Greads! This week's discussion is about
Musical Stories
If you could read a book about any song, which song would you love to see written down in story form?
This is a seriously tough question, because I think most music has to come from a deep place. (Most good music, anyway.) There's always a story behind every lyric, and if you really wanted to, you could write it. That said, I have 3 that I would love to have formed into a book. All of them are fairly popular (one VERY popular), and all are tortured/sad/heartbreaking in their own way; but still, I think some truly emotional and touching stories could be made.
Damien Rice - Cannonball
John Mayer - Slow Dancing In A Burning Room
Adele - Rolling in the Deep
What musical story would you want to read?
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I said it in my review, but I am absolutely terrified for the movie adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. It's such a beautiful, emotional, epic read that you feel as you go from paragraph to paragraph, page to page. And it's not really that I don't think they'd be able to do Hazel, Augustus and Isaac justice (there's a chance they could); but it's more that I think all the visual cues of sets and scenes would detract from the experience of reading it. I can't say more in case people have not read it (what are you waiting for??), but there are very specific parts where I feel a movie would ruin it because of surroundings.
Though truthfully, my answer is every book, EVER. I'm just not a fan of movie adaptations. Some are great (The Notebook, Gone with the Wind, every Pride & Prejudice adaptation, etc), but wholly, the book is always, always better. Movies almost always ruin something a reader can get from the book. And really, movie adaptations are poor excuses for people not to read; I can't tell you how many students I had in my tutoring days that said they saw the movie so they could write the report. Absolutely disgraceful.
What is one book that you would be nervous to see a movie adaption of because you think the movie could never live up to the book?
I said it in my review, but I am absolutely terrified for the movie adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. It's such a beautiful, emotional, epic read that you feel as you go from paragraph to paragraph, page to page. And it's not really that I don't think they'd be able to do Hazel, Augustus and Isaac justice (there's a chance they could); but it's more that I think all the visual cues of sets and scenes would detract from the experience of reading it. I can't say more in case people have not read it (what are you waiting for??), but there are very specific parts where I feel a movie would ruin it because of surroundings.
Though truthfully, my answer is every book, EVER. I'm just not a fan of movie adaptations. Some are great (The Notebook, Gone with the Wind, every Pride & Prejudice adaptation, etc), but wholly, the book is always, always better. Movies almost always ruin something a reader can get from the book. And really, movie adaptations are poor excuses for people not to read; I can't tell you how many students I had in my tutoring days that said they saw the movie so they could write the report. Absolutely disgraceful.
What book should never be a movie?
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ReplyDeleteLovely answer! I think as long as the author has a voice and participates in the decisions needed for the movie, the movie will turn out fine.
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You're definitely right - I've had too many arguments about whether a book is bad or not with people who haven't actually read it, but have seen the movie. Drives me mad!
ReplyDeleteTara @ Hey, Tara
I love the John Mayer song you picked. Perfect!
ReplyDeleteWow, your music picks are brilliant! :O <3
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I was just thinking about TFiOS! I woudl like to see them try to make this movie, although it woudl be tough to live up to the book. New follower :)
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I love all the songs you picked and I could definitely see how they could be turned into stories. I could kind of see Rolling in The Deep being a story about a broken love maybe set on the shoreline of some town and the character having all these hurt, vengeful feelings.
ReplyDeleteDarlene @ Leather Bound and Lovely
Yeah for Rolling in the Deep! Would make a great, but heartbreaking book that I would love to read. I'd be nervous for The Fault in Our Stars as well. I just don't know if a movie could give such an emotional story justice. Great answers!
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Rolling in the deep would be a fantastic story!! And I love the John Mayer as well!! Great choices :)
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Hopping through. I really hope TFIOS never ends up as a movie. I don't think they can get it right.
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Hi, I am a new follower. I chose Divergent because I don't know if the movie can do the book justice.
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Ooh, great call on Damian Rice!! I'd love to see a bunch of his songs made into books. And of course Adele is just amazing too. Hers would be a very powerful book.
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ReplyDeleteJenny @ Into the Morning Reads
Adele's Rolling in the Deep is an amazing song. Great pick! That would be a great book. Thanks and happy Friday.
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