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Chesil Beach

Thursday, June 28th, 2007

Want to read a good book? Go to the movies.

Most really, really great books make lousy movies. It seems that the poetic elegance of great writing has the ability to create images in the 8 inches of imagination between our ears with a vivid, psychic richness that a 100 foot screen and Dolby surround sound simply can’t match.
But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t try.  It simply means that we should […]