I Rekindled my Kindle

[spicedogs]

My kindle looked like this:






And this is what it looks like today:






And now I have a question:

I finished reading The Reader. I highly recommend it. Now I have a choice of two books to read:

1.  Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Reli

or

2. Chocolat by Joanne Harris

Which one should I read first?

Comments

[mr-henry-gale.livejournal.com]

Did you encase your Kindle in wood? Hehe. It looks much grander now.

I haven't read either, but I've seen the film Chocolat and I found it to be very good (but I may be biased seeing as John Wood is in it...). I am acquainted with the author's other works, though, and I think I can safely count myself among her fans, so I say go for Chocolat.

[spicedogs.livejournal.com]

Someone in Twitter suggested Chocolat as well. Hmmm.... I can start a trend, read the book and then watch the movie. I never saw Chocolat.

[mr-henry-gale.livejournal.com]

Ha. You won't be the first one to have done that. I was a fan of the Harry Potter books before there was even word about a film.

[mooncove.livejournal.com]

OMG, somebody else knows who John Wood is? Cool!!! (Of course it would be another Michael Emerson fan.)

I hope you're not too disappointed seeing the movie after reading the book. I'm invariably let down when I do them in that order because I always have such great expectations for how they're going to film some great scene or other from the book, and it usually gets all changed around ... or deleted entirely! (I saw the first three Harry Potter movies before starting the books. I found you really can't understand the third movie without reading the book--which is why I read it. And I've been disappointed by the other two movies that have come out since then and fully expect to be let down by the sixth, which is my favorite book in the series!)

[mr-henry-gale.livejournal.com]

No kidding. Are you a fan of his? I thought I was the only one. Both JW and ME have the rather prominent nose and the nasally voice thing going for them, heh. I'd give anything to have seen John's performance as Henry Carr in Tom Stoppard's Travesties back in 1974 - unfortunately, I wasn't even born then. I liked him a lot in Wargames and Uncovered (it's quite obscure so I wouldn't be surprised if you haven't seen it - it's a fun, quirky little murder mystery, definitely worth checking out if you haven't).

As for my impression of the Harry Potter films... I didn't expect Lupin (my favourite character) to have a crazy moustache. And the movie depiction of his wolf form was very unimpressive - it didn't even look like a wolf, for god's sake, more like a large, skinny, hairless dog of some kind... I felt let down by the third film when I first saw it, perhaps because the third book is easily my favourite and my expectations were too high.

[mooncove.livejournal.com]

Yes, you could say I'm a fan of John Wood, although I haven't seen a lot of his work. He's not quite in my "Top Ten," but I first saw him in War Games and then Ladyhawke, and I'm always happy when I see him crop up in other things now and again (e.g., The White Countess, Rasputin, Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, Chocolat--yes, great movie). He's a great character actor. I should probably make an effort to see more of his work. Does he have a major role in Uncovered? Sounds pretty interesting from the IMDb synopsis.

I wasn't impressed with the werewolf effects either, but then, while the art direction is always awesome, I'm often disappointed with the FX in the Potter films. But how about Madeye Moody? Nothing against Brendan Gleeson, but he was nothing at all like I pictured the character when reading the book!

The third book is my second favorite (it was my first favorite till I read the sixth). Of course, my favorites are the ones where Snape figures most prominently. :)

[mr-henry-gale.livejournal.com]

Mr Wood was my number one the year before I set eyes on Michael Emerson as Ben.

He does have a major role in Uncovered. If you want, I'll see if I can get clips up on YouTube.

Yes, Mad-Eye wasn't anything at all like I pictured him either. I thought his glass eye popped into his empty eye socket - I didn't envision it as a strap-on, haha.

Snape's my second-favourite character, but I can't remember HBP too well now, just the basic plot points. But then, the only HP book that I've reread again and again is Prisoner of Azkaban...