@IchchheMrityu  I am now relishing this forum very much. So much that I can’t resist coming back here, discussing, commenting and may be starting newer discussions in near future!  🙂
Yes, adaptations can be great if we want viwers in say English to see a great work written in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil, or even Chinese, Japanese, Italian, German, F…[Read more]

Hi Peeush, Thank you for bringing up this topic.

I agree with Sarah. Book is always better than screen adaptation.

However I would say there are several advantages of the adaptation also. Let me list down those, let me know your views on that.

1. The very first point I would like to mention is sometimes we can not exactly understand the…[Read more]

Well, I do have links and I share on twitter.

@tarasquirrel yes books can have more details. Movies have to cut out some part or shorten it. Exceptions can be in shorter length stories. In cases like “3 idiots” – an adaptation of “Five Point someone” by Chetan Bhagat, the movie was almost as good as the novel, and in some places better.
But of course, it also depends on the script writer,…[Read more]

@ptrikha15 I admit you read lot of books. I read too but as I mentioned I read English novels very less. I mainly read Bengali books. It ‘s not because I do not like English literature, it is because I can enjoy more in my mother language and my reading pace  far better in Bengali.

So I am definitely not the person to compare one English writer…[Read more]

Most of the times i prefer the book because they have more details to it. The story becomes complete with all these little details and you can imagine the things they say in your head and the way you want.

When they adapt a book to a movie they tend to lose some details along the way. Especially because it is rare that you can get a whole book…[Read more]

@IchchheMrityu
I also have read “Surely you are joking Mr Feynman” way back in 1995, the year I moved to college from school.
I too have read some serious and non-fiction books, but I have more of a liking for fiction and thrillers.
By the way I am also involved in writing a story series on LB.

Yes @ichchhemrityu
I would have talked about a lot more books but limited to some recent and one older one.
Yes, I have read Dan Brown works too.
First one was “Da Vinci Code” which I read in 2005. Dan Brown too is a good story-teller, but his works tend to be a bit longer and a bit boring in some places.
In fact, my parents tried to read this…[Read more]

@arnoldcruz
“I remember saving my money just to buy his books (paper back edition)………..”
You are such an ardent fan of Robert Ludlum. Great to know this! I was not aware he is no longer alive.
He is great in conceptualization, scene enactment and adding sudden twists and turns. At times, I have fallen almost asleep but read pages upon pages…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing your response @bodyandbrain