Oh you haul sixteen tons...

[mousme]

I have a really long post to make about my new job. I was going to write it tonight, because in theory, I have plenty of time when I get home to write posts, now that I finish work at 4pm instead of 5pm.

Of course, that all got flushed rather spectacularly when both metros broke down, one after the other, in the order in which I had to take them

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Did you hear that Warner Bros. is making a movie out of the book?

[montecristo]

Brad Pitt is going to be Sandoz, supposedly.

Ick. I'm not particularly impressed with the book's premises and theme.

Re: Did you hear that Warner Bros. is making a movie out of the book?

[toughlovemuse]

I didn't realize Brad Pitt looked Puerto Rican...*rolls eyes*

Not impressed with the books premises and theme? In what way?

Re: Did you hear that Warner Bros. is making a movie out of the book?

[montecristo]

Artistic license. Brad Pitt sells movie tickets.

As for the books, well, I don't want to spoil the thing for mousme, if she's anticipating the suspense, so I won't say too much about them other than to say that I find the book's ethical framework to be pretty off-putting. In all honesty, I haven't read the books, but I did read something about them. I suspect that they would be harder to read than The Celestine Prophecy or David Brin's Earth, for me.

Re: Did you hear that Warner Bros. is making a movie out of the book?

[toughlovemuse]

I won't say too much about them other than to say that I find the book's ethical framework to be pretty off-putting.

I can't speak for the sequel as I only found out via this comment thread that there is one. However -- by ethical framework do you mean the fact that the book contains Jesuits? (which, it does) Or that it tries to foist a specific religious belief on the reader? (which, it doesn't.) Or something else entirely? I gather the second from your reference to the Celestine Prophecy, and if that's the case, you're missing out on a really good book based on a very narrow interpretation of it (I have a hard time imagining *how* you'd draw a particular religious message from it, and if you did what that message would be).

The author and I embrace contrary philosophies.

[montecristo]

It has nothing to do with Jesuits. It has everything to do with the author's apparent moral relativism and assumptions about the nature of sapience and morality. It's not a particular religious message, per se. In fact, I think there are plenty of religious thinkers who would find the author's ethical framework and theme just as problematic as I suspect that it is.

I don't want to get too into it, because mousme probably would like to read the book before hearing a bunch of plot spoilers.