Hey, guess what guys…I finally read Lord Of The Flies. I know, I think I was suppose to do this back in high school. I wasn’t aware of this, so it didn’t happen.
For my birthday, I received the book. I finished reading it the other night and then decided to watch the movie. That’s how it usually works. Of course, the movie is never as good as the book.
So, here’s my review. Both the movie and the book were just okay. I think the author (William Golding) really had an opportunity to create something much deeper, but perhaps he would have lost his younger audience. Also, there are similarities between The Lord Of The Flies and the show Lost, so I might have expected more.
The book touched on some topics more than the movie did. Also, the movie added a few things that never happened in the book. I’m not sure why, because they weren’t relevant to what was going on.
There were some important events that occurred in the book that just didn’t happen in the movie. I would say the two most important events were the defining of the Lord Of The Flies and how the little mini-civilization degraded so fast. The movie skimmed over the scenes of anything having to do with the pig’s head and how Jack’s group found Ralph and how/why they started to burn the island down. It was disappointing because those were major events.
Overall, I think both the book and the movie left me asking why didn’t this happen and why didn’t that happen, instead of really wondering why something did happen.
This was probably my father’s favorite show while it was on. I remember him sitting on the couch staring at the television set with those glazed over eyes. Every time something action packed would happen, he would start laughing and screaming and trying to get you to come over to see what was happening. None of us ever went over there. Poor guy.
Laura and I finished up season 4 of Lost on Netflix. We watched it through the internet. She has a nice 22″ monitor, so we would lay the big sleeping bag on the floor and set up the pillows. It was fun. Season 5 isn’t available yet, so we were pretty much up the creek a few days ago, that is until I came up with the great idea of biding our time by watching old episodes of the A-Team. We started at episode one.
I never knew that the A-Team only ran for four seasons. It seems like it was on forever and it may have been because of all the re-runs. What an awesome show.
So now, we are going to be watching the A-Team until December or something like that, until Lost season 5 is available. Then, we have to watch that fast before the real season 6 shows on the TV. When that happens, we are down to business.
Here is the Spanish intro for you. See if you can translate.
Laura and I are watching Lost over again. During the first go-round, either I missed a few episodes or she did. Neither of us had the complete picture of what happened during season 1, 2 or 3. Let’s face it…things really didn’t start getting hot until maybe season 3 or 4.
Anyway, we are all finished with watching seasons 1 and 2 and are now a few episodes deep into season 3. We are at the point of where Jack, Kate and Sawyer are trapped by the Others and John just saved Mr. Echo. Really, this has nothing to do with this post.
Okay, you know how when you watch a DVD and are at the main menu, there is this bit of theme music that keeps going round and round? It’s the screen where you choose which episode you want to watch. Well, On this DVD, the background picture for that screen is where Jack, Kate and Sawyer are kneeling on the dock in front of the water. There’s a mountain in the background. It’s right after they got captured. The picture of the water got me thinking.
I started thinking about how cool it would be to live in Old Saybrook, CT. Old Saybrook is located right at the mouth of the Connecticut River and the Long Island Sound. It’s on our list of places to get to this Summer. They even have one of those neighborhoods where everyone drives around in golf carts. That’s pretty much what I want to do. They have beaches down there in Old Saybrook and there’s a lot of really cool stuff. So there I was, looking at this picture of kind of what Old Saybrook looks like.
I turned to Laura and said, “Hey Pumpkin heart, I want to do two more things before Summer is over. I want to go on that boat ride down in Essex (next week) and I want to go to Block Island to ride a scooter around the entire island.” She liked those ideas and even threw in camping. I told her that I was up for camping in December, when all the bugs are gone. I think we agreed on maybe September or October for that. I want to get one of those big hoodie sweatshirts so I can wear it in front of a campfire while smoking a cigar.
So that was my idea and that’s why I am writing this, just to let you know. Well, I had two things but now with the Old Saybrook trip, that makes three. Over and out.
I have a favor to ask. I have been really wanting to get something going on this blog that has to do with the show, “Lost.” So here’s the favor; if you watch Lost and have any interest in discussing it, please leave a comment on this post. I would really like to get into it with you.
Here’s something I thought of yesterday in the car – Isn’t it interesting how Jack’s father, Christian Shephard, was in a coffin on a plane that crashed on the island and now he’s alive? Isn’t it even more interesting that John Locke was in the same situation and now he’s alive too?
I went for my usual walk this afternoon when I started discussing the last episode of “Lost” with my better half. I had a few questions for her, but I thought it might be better to bring them up here.
The first question I have is, how come Jack, Kate, Sayid and Hurley were sent thirty years in the past, while Ben, John and Sun were kept in the present? Also, is Ben counted is one of the “Oceanic 7,” or is that Jack, Kate, Sayid, Hurley, Sun, Aaron and ??? I am drawing a blank here.
The second question I have is what does Jack being assigned to “Janitorial Duties” have to do with the show? I know Ben’s father had a similar assignment while on the island. Are the two related? Will Jack meet the young Ben and get to know the reason why he killed everyone in the Dharma Initiative? That seemed like such an unnecessary scene to place emphasis on.
TYSM I read this one and decided to try it out on my ACER (See, its not always HP with the problems)...