Ben by Daniel Shelton for November 23, 2024

There’s only n stories at a high enough level, anyway (with n typically being between 6 and 12).

I miss those specials.

I really don’t like movies made from books. The book is always better.

Ben, Ben, Ben, Hollywood just uses the names from the book. The rest is almost pure Hollywood… ☺

I have read some books several times and always find things in them that I don’t remember reading before. That is one thing that makes them worth re-reading.

I Think Ben is doing great if at his age he can remember the story of a program made 45 years ago. I’ve seen all of the episodes of Gilligan’s Island, and all I can remember is the ongoing debate over Mary Ann and Ginger.

After school special in 1979? All this time I thought he was older than me but I had been in the Navy for 5 years by then.

Ben just doesn’t go by the book.

but he keeps eating and sleeping and he already know how those feel

Movies from books/plays tend to disappoint but I try not to nit pick what the director and screenwriter envisioned.

I find there’s no consistent experience as to whether the movie was better than the book, or vice versa, or whether I enjoyed both equally. Each has to be judged individually. I could easily rattle off a list of two dozen movies for which I’ve read the book and seen the movie, and then divide that list evenly among those three categories. Sometimes reading the book first puts a vision in my head as to what the movie should look like, and I may or may not agree with the creative decisions of the movie makers. In other cases, reading the book after seeing the movie makes me appreciate the author’s narrative for providing details that couldn’t quite translate into a movie. All very subjective, of course.

Depends on the book/movie. More often than not, the book will be better. Once in a while the movie will be better than the book (ex: Inkheart).

Read the BIBLE

how is he still alive?

Ben is TV and Movie hound!