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I've read Sense and Sensibility. Read Emma. Seen the Keira movie five times and the BBC miniseries twice, but somehow never actually read the book.
Enjoying it now for the first time.
I rec it!
Feb 17, 2025
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I had never read it before this year despite loving a romance. My university did two screenings of the 2005 movie and it sent me down this crazy spiral of how perfect the story is so I decided to finally read it.
Dec 9, 2024
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It is very fulfilling, and it expands your understanding of both texts so well!
Mar 22, 2024
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I used to be hardcore book before movie but two recent experiences changed my mind.
1. I finally read Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep and it is radically different from Blade Runner. Setting, tone, themes—Blade Runner ditched them all and just kept the replicants and the protagonist's name. And its still a fantastic adaptation. One piece of art begat another.
2. I decided to read Poor Things after watching the movie because the characters were so charming. The two works' presentations are different but equally endearing. Reading the book now makes me appreciate the omissions and condensation made for film, and the director's visual choices and additions. It's like I watched a creatively interpreted abridge version and now I'm reading deeper in a textbook.
I think being so staunchly book-first made me approach movie adaptations with a lot of judgement. Now it's like I'm tasting a sample of a story and can choose to dive into the full course if it's compelling enough.
Feb 23, 2024
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this is worthy of celebration: the lack of video—autoplay video, noisy inane video, panicky video, algorithmic, dumb video, rabbit hole video, any video—on pi.fyi is a good thing
Oct 5, 2024
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this is going to hurt — A LOT — but it's getting to the point where there's no other option
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one of my 2025 habit goals
alone or with others, it is the best
Jan 21, 2025