I'm about your age as well, and I was a voracious reader of novelizations. Somewhere I still have the one for Star Wars. And I can remember arguing, maybe 40 years ago, that the books were always better than than the movies.
As for cultural blindspots, I have a bunch, but the one that comes to mind, given the holidays just ended, is Love …
I'm about your age as well, and I was a voracious reader of novelizations. Somewhere I still have the one for Star Wars. And I can remember arguing, maybe 40 years ago, that the books were always better than than the movies.
As for cultural blindspots, I have a bunch, but the one that comes to mind, given the holidays just ended, is Love Actually. I think that's the name of it. I've never seen it.
I used to have a bunch of literary ones--I somehow managed to get through my entire education career (and I was an English major to boot) without reading Moby Dick or Paradise Lost or The Iliad or The Aeneid or Crime and Punishment or Ulysses and some others I can't even remember now. I've since read them all, though, so there's at least that. Except for Ulysses. I got bogged down halfway through and just could not finish it.
I'm about your age as well, and I was a voracious reader of novelizations. Somewhere I still have the one for Star Wars. And I can remember arguing, maybe 40 years ago, that the books were always better than than the movies.
As for cultural blindspots, I have a bunch, but the one that comes to mind, given the holidays just ended, is Love Actually. I think that's the name of it. I've never seen it.
I used to have a bunch of literary ones--I somehow managed to get through my entire education career (and I was an English major to boot) without reading Moby Dick or Paradise Lost or The Iliad or The Aeneid or Crime and Punishment or Ulysses and some others I can't even remember now. I've since read them all, though, so there's at least that. Except for Ulysses. I got bogged down halfway through and just could not finish it.