It, The Dark Tower and The Circle are great adaptations

In my opinion, the best work done, in the last 6 months, in relation to my topic, was the adaptation of It, a literary work coordenated by Stephen King, which tell us a story about a killer clown that exploits the children`s fears. It threatens to be totally terryfying, so it is better to be well awake to see the movie or read the book. 

The It book cover
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Besides, there is another story invented by the same author of It, which is based on a series of eight books that, once again, crosses the horror, with a mixture of Western, and sci-fi genres. It`s called The Dark Tower , and it centers on a young man, who is transported to a realm called Mid-World, where he joins a quest to save the land.

The Dark Tower book cover
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In conclusion, we have a woman, which gets a job at a powerful tech company called The Circle  but begins to uncover his secrets. This Dave Eggers creation deals with how we use technology, and the boundaries between private and public, using the lead character`s experience to explore whether tech companies ever get too close to comfort. 

The Circle book cover
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David Magalhaes

Our topic covered by the media

Nowadays, there are several ways to spread information and to stay informed. In the case of books adaptations, I would like to mention a few that I find really interesting and reliable.

                     BOOKTUBERS

By doing videos about novels or poetry, these people have become a new kind of journalists. They talk about their favourite books and comics, and their followers can rely on their opinions since they have solid arguments and experience. With their reviews, they advertise the books that they believe are the best. Most of them are young people who know the interests of their generation, which is really useful in order to convince their followers to give literature a try. This new way of communication is changing advertisement as we know it. At the right, you can see Newyorkbookworm, a booktuber which talks about this phenomenom.

PODCASTS

An affordable option to learn about writers and the latest news regarding books is listening to specialised podcasts. This form of entertainment has become more famous over the past four years, and it's only growing. In their recordings, you can find interviews, stories and reviews. You can easily download them on iTunes, and listen to them whenever you want to. Some of the most popular are Selected Shorts -there is an example below-, New Yorker Fiction Podcast and Books and Authors

SOCIAL NETWORKS

Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram are only a few examples of where to find information about book adaptations. Since everyone can express themselves, news and rumours are spread faster than anywhere else. However, this comes with a flaw: The statements can be fake. But if you check the facts and don't trust uncertain accounts, you shouldn't have any problem. The main feature about social networks is the speed at which news are spread.

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BLOGS AND WEBSITES

One of the best ways to find information on the internet is through blogs. They provide news, trailers, reviews and even tests. With them, you can read longer posts about books or movies that you are interested in. In these websites you can even find links to others where you are able to download novels or films. There are many languages and topics that you can read about, besides of the multimedia content they post. One of the most important pages that are available on the internet is Sarah's Book Shelves.

Example of a literature website called Read.Breathe.Relax

Which sources do I use?

Normally I don't have a set of used sources to informed myself about a topic. Typically, it depends on what do I want to search, and if it is more related to movies or books.

For Instance, YouTube is a good source to look for Movie Trailers. Because, I tend to write about movies I saw, is easier to find what I want exactly.

I lean on three YouTube channels that talked about movies and books as well of YouTube trailers:

1. MOVIECLIPS

2. CHRIS STUCKMANN: Is a movie critique related channel. I watch his videos on a daily basis, because of his objective reviews and good sense of humour

3.WISECRACK. Thug Notes Section: A book related channel, that reviews, analyses and explains classics of literature in a comical note.

Thug Notes

Besides those three channels, the search is merely to get more background of the topic. 

Here are some of the pages I used:

1. Internet Movies Database: Used to find references and nice details

2. GOODREADS: The usage of this website depends on the book, if it's a classical I will rely on this web to get more information, otherwise I

will stick to YouTube

3. THE NEW YORK TIMES: the book section is often use to find good reviews of the books selected on the post

The Lord of The Rings: The silmarilion failure

What happens when one does not read the J.R.R Tolkien books?
Either
1. Nothing
2. Your crazy friends don't believe you
3.You read them

Since the movies came out my parents read the trilogy of The Lord of The Ring, meanwhile my aunt devoured the bible of Tolkien:  The Silmarillion. Little did I know about the condense and majestic world of the Middle Earth  and until this day, I haven't read the trilogy. I know, is sad if you are a fan of the books, still, the movies are great and I know that they won an Oscar for best movie adaption, so that comforts me.

Trauma. Gollum is not listening

The years went by and I remained a virgin from the Lord of The Rings experienced, until one day something changed... A friend of my was a big fan of the books specially the Silmarillion, with the story of the origins of the middle earth, the men, the dwarf, hobbits, elfs and gods. I canot tell how I got that interested but I remembered that all began with a WhatsApp conversation about good books.
One book led to another and then Tolkien's story got in the way. A month later, I was having a limited edition of the Silmarillion, it was my friend's precious treasure.

The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien

I promised him to take care of that book like it was my baby, and I got three months to read it. I was confident about the time...Oh boy I was so naive.

Here is an honest representation of my inner-thoughts while reading the Book:

"First pages, good, some characters introduced, the creation of the son of gods, mmm, I need to catch-up with the names, thank good there's a dictionary with names in the back." That was how everything screw-up, I ton of characters where introduce in the first fifty pages, I was constantly confused or I even slept because of the plot been so damn intricate. It took me two months to read hundred pages. TWO MONTHS, and then, I gave up, cowardly.

I now know, after speaking with my aunt, that the book is hard to pass, and that is cause because, the Silmarillion was a compilation of notes and drafts that Tolkien wrote but never put together, it was too long and complicated and he never had the time to published. His son, eventually discovered all that and realises that it was unfinished,  so he decided to write the rest. I can understand why he did it, to perpetuate his fathers legacy, to show the world the great story he was creating or even to gain some recognition maybe. All I can say is that is was hard to understand and to take all that information so fast; from the creation of the all Mighty sons, the elfs, the men, the dwarfs the hobbits, the separation of the elfs, how Sauron turned evil, the war, the creation of tools, and magic objects. the backstabbing, the affairs, the names... Those names, they could have three different names, because it changed from dialect, to region or even because the writer wanted to. They even have a dialect glosary!

Anyway, I will someday read the goddamn book, and the Lord of The Rings as well.

I will not die until I read those books.