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Looking for some Thanksgiving dinner conversation that will (hopefully) distract your family members from \u00a0either a) fighting about politics or b) asking you why you’re still single? Look no further. Here at the Book Report, we pluck book-related stories from the otherwise hellish news cycle and we chat about them.<\/p>\n
11\/13\/17: Amazon<\/a> is Making a Lord of the Rings<\/i> TV Adaptation<\/b><\/p>\n The end of Game of Thrones<\/i> is nigh, which means someone’s<\/i> going to have to step up to the plate and make a new show about dragons, and soon, or we’ll all be lost. Amazon, having recently confirmed that they’re making a multi-series TV adaptation of Lord of the Rings<\/i>, is more than up to the challenge. They’ll be working with the Tolkien Estate and Trust, which is big.<\/p>\n Now, before anyone gets either excited or furious, bear in mind: all we know so far is that Amazon has acquired the rights. As of now, it doesn’t sound like they’re interested in remaking the films.<\/p>\n The television adaptation will tell new stories based in the period preceding The Fellowship of the Ring, the novel that provided the basis for the first part of Peter Jackson’s film trilogy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Which means it could be a TV show version of The Silmarillion<\/i>, or it could be more along the lines of what Tolkien featured in the appendices (Aragorn meeting Arwen, the history of Gondor, etc.). We’ll just have to wait and see. And speaking of TV adaptations\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n 11\/16\/17: There’s Going to Be a Catch-22<\/i> Miniseries Starring George Clooney<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n This is interesting for a couple of reasons:<\/p>\n 11\/6\/17: Turns Out, Charles Bukowski’s Poems Were \u201cMangled\u201d<\/a> By Editors<\/b><\/p>\n The Charles Bukowski we all knew and loved (or hated) liked to write about three things: sex, alcoholism, and the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles. But the poems that came out after his death (so post-1994) seem very un-Charles Bukowski-like. And apparently, there’s a good reason for that\u2014they were heavily edited. A scholar named Abel Debritto recently uncovered Bukowski’s original poems and manuscripts and was appalled by how much Bukowski’s works were “mangled” in the editing process.<\/p>\n Possibly my favorite part of the entire story is that one of Bukowski’s poems, originally titled \u201cstone tiger, frozen sea,\u201d was changed to \u201clike a dolphin.\u201d Debritto had this to say:<\/p>\n \u201cBukowski was not a dolphin kind of guy,\u201d said Debritto.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n BUKOWSKI WAS NOT A DOLPHIN KIND OF GUY. I hope that when I die, my stance on dolphins is crystal clear. If you don’t already know what it is, then you do not know me at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Looking for some Thanksgiving dinner conversation that will (hopefully) distract your family members from \u00a0either a) fighting about politics or b) asking you why you’re still single? Look no further. Here at the Book Report, continue reading<\/span>\n