Reading & Watching The Classics

[JD]

Has anybody read any of the sequels to The Time Machine? I read about a few of them on Wikipedia and some of them sounded interesting, especially Morlock Night and The Time Ships.

 

[JD]

I just finished watching the 1960 The Time Machine movie, and while it is a very different movie from the newer version, I liked it a lot too. This one is definitely a lot closer to the original novella, but what I found interesting is that a lot of the changes it did make, were pretty similar to the 2002 movie. Both movies have the George/Alexander making extra stops between 1899 and 802,701, and in both movies the things that he experiences in the extra stops tie into the movies versions of the Eloi and Morlocks. In the 2002 movie we have the breaking of the moon, and in the 1960 movie we have the air raid sirens. They also both make Eloi and Weena in particular a little more active and a little bit deeper characters. One of the biggest changes that both made was to the ending, in both versions we get a big fight with the Morlocks where George/Alexander rescues Weena and the other Eloi. I can why they both did that though, since movies tend to have much more definitely endings than the fairly open one we got in the original novella.

 

[theenglish]

I've been slowly working my way through the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe with a plan to rewatch The Fall of the House of Usher when I'm done. If you haven't read it, The Haunting of Hill House is a beautiful read as is Turn of the Screw, although Henry James can be a difficult read.

 

[bdub76]

I've been slowly working my way through the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe with a plan to rewatch The Fall of the House of Usher when I'm done. If you haven't read it, The Haunting of Hill House is a beautiful read as is Turn of the Screw, although Henry James can be a difficult read.

Each episode in that Fall of the House of Usher is an adapted Poe story. I enjoyed watching each ep and reading the corresponding story. The adaptations are very well done.

 

[theenglish]

Each episode in that Fall of the House of Usher is an adapted Poe story. I enjoyed watching each ep and reading the corresponding story. The adaptations are very well done.

There's also a lot of Easter Eggs scattered throughout the series referencing a variety of Poe's stories and poems.

 

[JD]

I've been slowly working my way through the complete works of Edgar Allan Poe with a plan to rewatch The Fall of the House of Usher when I'm done. If you haven't read it, The Haunting of Hill House is a beautiful read as is Turn of the Screw, although Henry James can be a difficult read.

I've never read Poe before, but I definitely want to check some of his stuff out. I've The Raven recited, like on The Simpsons, but that's the closes I've come.

 

[bdub76]

I've never read Poe before, but I definitely want to check some of his stuff out. I've The Raven recited, like on The Simpsons, but that's the closes I've come.

Here's a good collection of his short fiction:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fiction

 

[JD]

Thanks.

 

[bdub76]

There's also a lot of Easter Eggs scattered throughout the series referencing a variety of Poe's stories and poems.

He's really good at adaptations. His Life of Chuck was spot on.

 

[Commander Troi]

Don't.

The book is a boring slog that has zero structure or actual narrative and also bears very little resemblance to any of the various films and television series that have been based upon/derived from it.

I respectfully disagree. I love The Three Musketeers and have also read the sequels.

IMO, the most book-accurate film versions are the 1974/75 The Three/Four Musketeers starring Michael York as D'Artagnan. Gorgeous & funny too.

 

[theenglish]

Here's a good collection of his short fiction:

https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/edgar-allan-poe/short-fiction

Here's a list of everything I could find that was referenced in the Netflix series, although there may be more:

1. Fall of the House of Usher (obviously)
2. The Raven (of course)
3. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
4. The Purloined Letter
5. The Mystery of Marie Roget
6. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
7. Metzengerstein
8. Morella
9. Tamerlane
10. William Wilson
11. The Premature Burial
12. The Spectacles
13. The Masque of the Red Death
14. Annabel Lee
15. The Cask of Amontillado
16. Ligeria
17. The Tell-Tale Heart
18. Some Words with a Mummy
19. Never Bet the Devil Your Head
20. Landor’s Cottage
21. The Pit and the Pendulum
22. The Black Cat
23. The Man that was Used Up
24. Spirits of the Dead
25. The Gold-Bug
26. Berenice
27. The City in the Sea
28. Metzengerstein
29. Lenore

 

[JD]

I respectfully disagree. I love The Three Musketeers and have also read the sequels.

IMO, the most book-accurate film versions are the 1974/75 The Three/Four Musketeers starring Michael York as D'Artagnan. Gorgeous & funny too.

Cool, that version is on Tubi.
On the last page we were talking about the different tanslations of some of the books I want to read that were originally published in languages other than English, and I did find that it does mention the translation on the copyright pages of the B&N Classics Editions.
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Vingt Mille Liueus sous les mers was originally serialized in France between 1869 and 1870. Lewis Mecier's translation and slight abridgement of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea introduced English readers to Verne's Work.

The Three Muskateers

Alexandre Dumas published The Three Musketeers in 1844. The present translation, like many editions that first introduced English readers to Dumas's work, remains anonymous.