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Scorpio Barrister/MovieVersusBook Earlier this week, I was having a phone conversation with the Scorpio Barrister. He suggested that I watch a movie on YouTube. "The Secret Life of John Chapman" with Actor Ralph Waite playing the part of a Haverford College Professor who takes a sabbatical and works as a laborer and various blue collar jobs. It is a true story and he wrote a book on his experiences. I have actually met Ralph Waite and he played the lead character in a movie called "On The Nickle," This is about a man who was a Los Angeles skid row alcoholic who found recovery and went back to skid row to save his best friend. I watched the movie and told my Scorpio Barrister friend that I wanted to read the book, compare it to the movie and discuss it at our Book Club. When I started looking for the book and was astonished to discover that it costed $297.00. That is not within my financial realities. I usually buy discarded books at the Library, book exchanges, or check out ThriftBooks. "Blue-Collor Journey: A College President's Sabbatical by John R Colman was written by the Scorpio Barrister's College Professor when he attended Law School at Haverford College. I called Mr. Scorpio Barrister and told him the cost of the book. Wow! That man's got a gold mine in his book shelf. He mentioned that he had two of the books but loaned one of them out. My girlfriend and I met him for coffee earlier today. He mentioned that he got the book back. I was thinking that he was going to loan me the book. He actually GAVE me the book. How precious. It turns out that Haverford is a Quaker College. I invited him to attend our Quaker meeting tommorrow. I suspect that he will get along very well with our group. They are mostly PhD's, an MD, my gf with two master's degree and there is me with my humble Associated degree. I hang out with the Quakers because I love the activism and they let me keep my crystals. Have you ever read a book based on a movie that you watched or visa versa? Which do you prefer? .  Abracadabra  |
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I actually saw the movie Jaws but don't ever intend to read the book. I generally avoid scary movies and books. Abracadabra
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The three books that come to mind are, Little Women, Room,. and The Other Boleyn Girl. I must say i enjoyed the books more. They are more detailed than movies because movies leave out some important details.
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I read Jaws just before going to see the movie. I was disappointed as well since I had envisioned the characters completely differently. In the past usually some time [maybe a year or two] had gone by before I'd gone to see the screen adaptation of a book I'd read so the differences weren't so obvious. The closest and best book to screen movie I've seen is The Black Stallion by Walter Farley.
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