my newest pic got me thinking, there are a few stories that i'm a big fan of...except when it comes to the original works.

A few Examples, I've read alice in wonder land and through the looking glass and...i didn't really like them, they seemed kind of pointless. But i love the concept of wonderland and it's characters and i'm a big fan of American Macgee's Alice.

Dune is another example. I LOVE the Dune universe and the actual story is great, i'm a huge fan of the Sci-fi min-series adaptaion and i even kind of like the cheesy 80's movie (all that leather how couldn't i?) but when i actually sat down to read the book i thought that Frank Herbuerts writing style was really dry and boring. Also there are some big plot twists that in the mini-series are kept a mystery till they happend but in the book there flat out explained from the start which i feel cheapens them a bit.

The Wizard of Oz is another one. Admitedly i've never read the book but i've seen the original film version which is how it's typically remebered and i can't stand it. All the characters seem brain dead and the music isn't so hot either. However i love the Return to Oz movie, i enjoyed the animated version of the wizard of oz (little known kids anime) and i even like The Wiz (mostly because the music is way better). And i even found Sci-fi's Tinman mini-series entertaining.

It seems with a lot of classic stories i can really get into the universe but when it comes to the source material i just can't get into it...and it's not because i don't like reading, I love to read, it just seems that a lot of the Classics are just sorta meh when you acutally read them.

Any hoot yeah this was a bit random but it's a journal so thats what it's there for right?