March 10, 2017 at 1:29 pm

Thank you Sarah for creating a new topic. However, I am not much help in this one. I have not read this book. I have watched the film only.And heard the sequel is also coming. We were just talking about film adaptation under another topic. You can provide your feed back on the film adaptation of this book. How would you rate the film against the boo?

For suggesting books, I think @ptrikha15 will be better person to suggest you some good books as he read lot of English books. 

March 10, 2017 at 1:23 pm

Thanks Peeush, the group will be more interesting if more people provides their inputs. Try to add your friends who loves book.

I understand your feelings when you love some books and the film adaptation distorts them. I have similar feelings when I watched one of my favourite book. Other friends who did not read that book liked the movie very much but I could not rate that movie as good.

Generally I do not watch TV series. Even Game Of Thrones I watched after downloading all the series and watched one by one. and Hindi/Bengali TV serials are pathetic. Even the historical ones are distorted to promote some political propaganda. They don’t remain truthful to the historical fact.

March 10, 2017 at 12:55 pm

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  vivid description, especially for the books on something historical places or pictures etc if we have not seen that before. Let me put an example, the film adaptation of THE VINCHI CODE. I had read the book before, but when I watched the movie, the pictures (How it explained the Last Supper) , places came more clear to me. I have not seen those places so the movie helped me to understand those.

2. There are thousands of books written in different languages which we cannot read in our life time. A 2 hour movie adaptation of any book will give at least the idea of that book. Like I have not read God Father. For Bollywood, I can tell about Devdas (non Bengali’s did not read it).  Or you can think about Game of Thrones. At least I have not read that, and also do not have that much time to read that huge book. I don’t want to increase the list.

But I would always suggest if you want to read a book and same movie is there then read the book first. I have done so for some Bengali films when I heard some film is going to release and adapted from a particular book. I read that book before.

And another thing is most important, that is for the directors, they should be honest enough and stick to the book as much as possible. I don’t like those movies which changes part the story as their own.

March 10, 2017 at 12:35 pm

Exactly Mahesh, What we call science fiction today will be reality in future. We need to go to other planets, galaxies. Hope we will be able to do that in near future.

For that, the world super powers have to take correct steps. They need to invest more in science and technology and less in defence and nuclear weapon.

March 10, 2017 at 12:31 pm

Thank you Albena. Hope all the super power go in the right direction so we, the common people have a better life.

March 10, 2017 at 12:34 am

I will sleep first. And a long sleep. I can withstand my empty stomach but not sleepy eyes!

March 10, 2017 at 12:13 am

@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 to another. And, now-a-days I get very less time to read. When I was in school or college used to get more time for reading story books. Now job and internet take the entire day. Yes, you may say I can stop doing this social networking stuffs. In fact I have deactivated FB to get more time in readings or other stuff.

Message me some of your short stories link. I want to read.

March 9, 2017 at 5:36 pm

Foot wear should be brought off line by trialling them.

But remember new shoes always hurts. So you should not wear it for long time when it is new.

March 9, 2017 at 4:27 pm

I would fulfil all my hobbies. I have quite a lot of hobbies like reading, writing, travelling, watching movies, playing games, swimming. Due to time and money factor I have restrict myself on these. Probably I would visit every corner of the world, please don’t say world is round so no corner is there. 😛

Then when I feel tired of travelling I would return to my home then will start writing, stories, poems based on my experience of the world tour.

I would read a lot as well, probably I would learn new language to read French, Russian, Spanish books directly.

Actually, your topic made me sad, actually I got very excited first. But while writing this I am realising that there are so many things that could have been done if I was not stuck to this world of money! I have to earn for my living and so I can not do the things which I could do.

March 9, 2017 at 1:49 pm

Christi, I would say this should be mandate for everybody. As the life style changing a lot and people have multiple partner before marriage. So at least tests should be done for sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS. Also, negative blood group is uncommon but it is still there. So Rh compatibility is required – it is bot about different race, in the same race Rh positive and negative can be there.

As we are developing so much in genetic science, we should use our knowledge for a better new generation to come by proper pre-marriage testing. Lot of diseases which get detected in children can be avoided by this. Give a thought!

March 9, 2017 at 1:38 pm

Exactly Deepak, and there are lot of diseases which can be prevented if you have clear knowledge about health issues of the bride and groom. As I mentioned in my Blog that Thalassaemia Carriers are not patient but if two carriers get married to each other then there will be high probability of their children to be a patient of Thalasseamia. In India lot of children dies due blood related issues, some are not even diagnosed properly.

When we did the camp in our area, we found a couple whose 2 children died at very little age. They were not diagnosed properly, you know what happens in poor rural family! Finally we asked them to d free carrier test in our camp. And found the parents both were carrier of Thalassaemia.

March 9, 2017 at 1:26 pm

Manju, this is very true. I feel the same for some other authors or film directors who tried to recreate their hit magic. Maximum time they fail while trying to recreate the previous magic. Don’t understand why they try to do so!

March 9, 2017 at 1:22 pm

Arnold, I am currently reading a Auto-Biography of a Bengali writer Sunil Ganguli. The name of the book is “Ardhek Jeebon” means Half Life. The time frame starts from 1930’s. We got or independence in 1947. So that time period has been well described in this book. How they started literary movement post independence, how the partition effected us etc are vividly described. I like serious books with authentic sources.

I mainly read Bengali books or translations. The last English book I read was “Surely you are joking Mr Feynman”.

March 8, 2017 at 11:11 pm

Yes Arnold, books are far better than the movie adaptation. Like I recently watched Inferno which I read long back. This is the worst adaptation of the Dan Brown series. I will definitely manage time to read  “The Little Prince” once I finish the books I am reading now.

March 8, 2017 at 11:01 pm

Yes, both has to go through same set of tests. Not only for Thalassaemia but also other diseases and blood group compatibility. Especially in India, marriage is fixed by caste, gotra etc; they should give priority for blood test.