...not just those centering around animation (not that there's anything wrong with that :o ) but books In General. Nothing like a good- or even halfway-decent- piece of litra-choor to jump-start one's inspiration.
Me? I just re-read Mieville's Iron Council for the third time. Read Titus Groan for the first time (the mini-series didn't do it justice).
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I read tonnes of books, so it will be a bit complicated to say which one I preferred... On the lighter side, I've finally red the first "the hitchikers' guide to the galaxy" (before seeing the film, of course), and bought a big book with all of the six novels, so I'll tackling that latter. On the darker side, I'm now reading Yann Martel's "The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios", a beutifully deep and sad book, although I still prefer his "Life of Pi", it is the kind of story that I would love to turn into an animated feature film.
Also there's always one of my favourite writer, Gabriel Garcia Marques, I finished reading his latest book "Memories of My Melancholy Whores" just before the Yann Martel, its a good book, but I would still advice anyone that has never read his books to start with his "one hundred years of solitude".
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I'm busy with Joseph Campbell at the moment, and before that came The Hobbit (again), Howl's Moving Castle (to compare it to the movie), I gave the first volume of A Series Of Unfortunate Events a try (also for the movie's sake), some of the additional work Lloyd Alexander wrote for his Prydain chronicles, both of Don Bluth's books on storyboarding and character animation and, well, I squeezed in the latest Harry Potter book, too. Ah yes, and The DaVinci code which starts pretty well but has a bit of a lame ending.
If ""comic"" books count, I just read Daniel Clowes' "Like a Velvet Glove Cast In Iron".
There's nothing comic about it. Really.
I can hardly sleep at night :S
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I just finished "The Colorado Kid", Stephen King's contribution to the new "Hard Case Crime" series. Great pulp novels!
Also am working my way through the Lemony Snicket series, and another kid's series called "The Edge Chronicles". Excellent illustrations in these, BTW.
just finished "the narnia chronicles". very good.
those stories are just made to be animated.
Just finished A Confederate General from Big Sur by Richard Brautigan, definitely worth a read. Now reading Lynch on Lynch.
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...Now I'm ping-ponging between a Raymond Chandler anthology, Trouble is My Business and Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness. The juxtaposition is...bracing.
And on the subject of producing animated works from books, has anyone ever attempted to animate David and the Phoenix? I'd have thought that one would be a shoo-in.
That, and the Discworld books. But somebody's already done it (www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/918994).
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--Julian Schnabel
finished Godfather Returns for the first time. not too shabby. nice imitation of Puzos style. re-reading Porno by Irvine Welsh and might reread American Psyhco after.
I seem to remember seeing an animated version of the Narnia books back in the eighties or nineties. The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe is due out in December, it's a combination of live action and special effects.
http://www.parable.com/parable/page_narnia_trailer.htm
I am basically a mystery reader with a little fantasy and SciFi thrown in. Mostly just been reading fluff series lately like the Cat Who...mystery series.
If you liked the DaVinci code you should try Holy Blood, Holy Grail it's a documentary written on the same subject. It's not an easy read though, but it makes you think. I read it back in the eighties. The critics panned it, and it didn't achieve much popularity, but it had me thinking about how different organized religion would be today had some of these theories been more available to the populus during the early formative years of some of the large churches.
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I'm currently reading:
The Box Man - Kobo Abe
Resonances - Helga de la Motte
The Falling Sickness - Russell Edson
i just finished "the tipping point" by malcolm gladwell which was really good. but i'm just about convinced now that if you choose from the right case studies and information pool to back a sociological thesis you can convince most people of it's validity.