The time traveler's wife

Dear readers

Emma, since you are indeed right in saying that this blog is turning into Harry Potter central, I am happy to say that I will be writing about something quite different today.

Thanks to youtube I just got some great news: One of my favourite books of all time has been turned into a movie!

I know some people think that we should stop turning books into movies because they are never as good as the original, but I don't agree, because some of my favourite movies are adaptations of books or comics.

Hellboy 2, the Golden Army for example, is a comic book adaptation.

P.S I love you was originally a book.

The princess bride was also a book from the beginning.

Twilight is an example where I think the movie is good and the book amusingly awful, I also prefer the Lord of the Rings movies to the books.

Captain Blood was a book.

Gone with the wind was a book. (I actually remembered Gone with the wind as being really bad, but upon re-watching it with friends I found it quite entertaining. Nothing I'd watch alone, but it's great fun with company.)

I think what you need to do is not to look at wether or not the movie folows the book exactly (P.S I love you, for example, differs quite a lot from the book) but wether or not the essence of the story is still there. Does it invoke the same feelings in you as the book? Do you feel the same about the characters? If that is true, I think it is a good adaptation.

Now, to the book I was talking about in the beginning, The time traveler's wife. I can't even begin to explain this book, so I'm not even going to try. What I will say is that it is perhaps the only story involving time travel that makes perfect sense to me, and it is a heartbreakingly beautiful love story that has carved it's own special little place in my heart.

I stumbled upon the trailer for the upcoming movie on youtube, and I am absolutely extatic. If the movie is only a third as good as the book, it will still be brilliant and leave me in a state of tear-stained bliss in the movie theatre. I recommend you all to read the book, and at least I will look forward to this movie with more excitemet than the twilighters look forward to New Moon, and that is saying something.

Here is the trailer that has gotten my spirits up so high. Enjoy!

P.S The youtube vid is a little weirdly formatted, a piece on the side gets cut off for some reason, but it's perfectly viewable. Look it up on youtube if you want the entire picture. D.S