LISTEN TO THE PLUGGED IN SHOW, EPISODE 62
The book was better.
No, the movie was better.
These are the sorts of arguments we get into with friends all the time—as long as we read books and watch movies. I’ll argue ‘til the Shire’s cows come home that Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings film trilogy was a great adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s original world, whereas Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy should’ve just stayed at Bag End.
But those arguments, as true and as fun as they may be, obscure another important point: Books and movies impact us differently. They scratch different sides of the brain. And each can move us, and change us, in different ways.
This week, the Plugged In team dives into books, movies, the relationship between the two and their relationship to us. We get fun. Snarky. And one of us proves just how much he or she knows about Harry Potter.
So put down your book, pause that movie and let us entertain and inform you with our conversation. And, of course, check out all the links below to see everything we talk about.
- Gift of Any Amount Offer: Burning Bush 2.0 by Paul Asay
- Plugged In Review: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
- Plugged In Review: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
- Plugged In Review: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
- Plugged In Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
- Plugged In Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (book)
- Plugged In Review: Divergent
- Plugged In Review: Divergent (book)
- Plugged In Review: Twilight
- Plugged In Review: Twilight (book)
- Plugged In Review: The Hunger Games
- Plugged In Review: The Hunger Games (book)
- Plugged In Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
- Plugged In Review: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (book)
- Plugged In Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
- Plugged In Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
- Plugged In Review: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
- Plugged In Review: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
- Plugged In Review: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
- Plugged In Review: The Hobbit (book)
One Response
– In my opinion if one hasn’t read the complete works of Shakespeare they’re seriously missing out on the best this world has to offer. You simply haven’t lived till you’ve read such thought-provoking masterpieces as Hamlet Macbeth Henry the Fifth the Merchant of Venice Measure for Measure Julius Caesar or Coriolanus. Not to mention his wonderful long poems Venus and Adonis and Lucrece. Shakespeare truly should be essential reading for any and all human beings.