Word: fictionizing
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...BOOK WAS BETTER: Both a coming-of-age love story and a treatise on geisha manners and mores, the very long Arthur Golden book reveled in its very novelness. Fiction is the ideal medium for a life story. It can span generations and take lots of scenic detours, and the reader will usually stay along for the ride. A movie has to keep on truckin' down the narrative highway...
...time has long passed when popular fiction was almost inevitably filmed by Hollywood and when, as in the 1940s, seven of the 10 Best Picture Oscar winners were based on novels. Today graphic novels inspire as many big-budget crowd pleasers as the old-fashioned unillustrated kind. Which means that somewhere someone is saying, of the Fantastic Four movie or even Sin City, "The comic book was better...
...during the country's rowdy 1983 election campaign, the book, just 68 pages long, is an outpouring of frustration at Nigeria's problems. You only have to read the contents page to tap into Achebe's angst. The author - best known for Things Fall Apart, a powerful work of fiction that almost half a century after its release still tops lists of Africa's greatest novels - uses blunt prose to deliver the message in Trouble. Chapter headings telegraph his views: "False Image of Ourselves"; "Social Injustice and the Cult of Mediocrity"; "Indiscipline"; "Corruption." Achebe lays out his case...
...there is this country, now called Myanmar, where a military regime is causing great suffering. People are being tortured, raped and killed. I could have laid out the problem calmly and directly in a nonfiction book, but that would have been what Americans call 'a bummer.' So I chose fiction. And comedy. Sometimes only the subversiveness of comedy can do justice to the extremes of horror." Especially in the hands of a writer who knows the value of life...
...provide another important study aid by highlighting key quotes. Who's helping the company distill the works of Austen, Dickens and Shakespeare into précis such as the one below of Romeo and Juliet? John Sutherland, who chaired the judging panel for this year's Man Booker Prize for fiction. The University College London professor says text messaging's "educational opportunities are immense." Perhaps, assuming such bite-size lessons will help translate that "rdng is FUNdmntl...