I saw this on TV last night and rather enjoyed it. The dialogue was a little too snappy in a few places for me, which made things a little difficult to follow, but overall pretty good.
I looked the film up on Wikipedia, which said that it had a production budget of $6M and had made $7.2M. I do not know how accurate (or even real) those figures are, but they were interesting in this day of films that cost many millions of dollars to make.
But I have a question for some of you sci-fi heads out there. In the film they talked about the books of Ursula K. Le Guin. The dialogue (which I said was a little snappy) was unclear at times. The male character in the book club mentioned a couple of titles by Le Guin. I did not quite catch the words.
I looked up Ursula K. Le Guin. I remember seeing her books on the bookstore shelves a few decades ago, back as far as the 1970s. She died in January of this year, and her death generated a good deal of public discussion for a few days.
I was wondering if some of you knowledgeable people might recommend a couple of her books. I know that The Left Hand of Darkness was an early work and that it won the Hugo and Nebula awards in 1970. Would this be a good candidate for a person to read, someone (like me) who might only read one of an author's works?
I looked the film up on Wikipedia, which said that it had a production budget of $6M and had made $7.2M. I do not know how accurate (or even real) those figures are, but they were interesting in this day of films that cost many millions of dollars to make.
But I have a question for some of you sci-fi heads out there. In the film they talked about the books of Ursula K. Le Guin. The dialogue (which I said was a little snappy) was unclear at times. The male character in the book club mentioned a couple of titles by Le Guin. I did not quite catch the words.
I looked up Ursula K. Le Guin. I remember seeing her books on the bookstore shelves a few decades ago, back as far as the 1970s. She died in January of this year, and her death generated a good deal of public discussion for a few days.
I was wondering if some of you knowledgeable people might recommend a couple of her books. I know that The Left Hand of Darkness was an early work and that it won the Hugo and Nebula awards in 1970. Would this be a good candidate for a person to read, someone (like me) who might only read one of an author's works?
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