See my icon for my views on "The Dark Is Rising".

Christopher Eccleston, on whether or not he had read the books: "No. I'd never heard of the books, but as a child I was hugely passionate about LORD OF THE RINGS. I understand the kind of passion that people feel for these books. I think they should be left for childhood. People say 'Lord of the Rings was the greatest novels ever written’. You're like, no, they're not. They're childhood.

Okay, I loved Eccleston as The Doctor, but after reading that I want to beat him repeatedly about the head and shoulders with the Past Watchful Dragons book.

I guess that's why it's called "acting".

I guess so.

I'll have to put him in the same box I have Card in: "Like the work, think the person is an idiot." :)

You know, if you're going to change a story as much as that, why don't you just giving another title and call it an original movie? Bah. I was already dealing with my disappointment that Eccleston wasn't Merriman (which is going to screw me up royally upon re-reading.)

The podcasts are lovely - Interesting voice/style the actor has.

Well that sounds rather more like butchery than adaptation, but I shall try to keep an open mind nevertheless. Maybe they will surprise me. *she says optimistically*

Thanks for the Podcast link. I've been trying to get hold of copies of those Poe stories to play in my classe. These should be perfect :o)

Yeah. I listened to The Cask of Amontillado to see how his reading was and I as pleasantly surprised. I'd found another free site but their readings were not so good. these I'll be happy to play in class :o)

Thanks - a VERY interesting article. I thought this was especially true - *G*:

"Heinlein had a sweet tooth for knowingness, for demonstrating smartness, especially when it upsets conventional wisdom."

But I was a bit disappointed; from the title I thought it would compare how the future turned out vs. what Heinlein imagined. I actually just re-read "The Door Into Summer", and it was a blast looking at how he imagined 1970 and 2008. The biggest thing that hit me was the absence of the computer and the internet. Being an engineer, he had a very Newtonian view of things, a very nuts-and-bolts imagination about what would be created in the future. So, when he came up with a way of making drafting easier in the future, it ended up being a drafting machine that works like a typewriter: press certain buttons and it daws lines for you. Interesting how it turned out instead!