Sam Mendes goes literary

Published Jul 01 2008, 11:47 AM by Sharon Steel

You know you're a huge nerd when news of George Eliot's Middlemarch being made into a movie (by a competent director) makes you shiver with excitement. Holy crap! So awesome. Except if they get Keira Knightley to play Dorothea, which would break my heart. Sorry, Keira, I do buy you as smart and spunky, but there's something missing -- a sense of refinement, perhaps? or maybe quietly yearning self-awareness? -- in your characterization of nineteenth century female heroines.

Speaking of Sam Mendes, he's also directing wife Kate Winslet and her old co-star Leonardo DiCaprio in a film adaptation of Revolutionary Road. I've never read it, but it comes highly recommended by several folks and I just got a copy of it. If I ever finish The Brothers Karamazov (my noble summer reading project), Rev Road comes next.

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Nina said:

Revolutionary Road is perhaps the most devestating book I have ever read, and if such a thing as the Great American Novel exists, Revolutionary Road is it.

July 1, 2008 6:14 PM

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