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185090.41 in reply to 185090.31
Date: 5/18/2011 8:09:32 AM
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HBO do good stuff but you just don't get everything you do from the books


Have you seen some of the HBO series like the Tudors or Spartacus? You get a lot from them that you can't possibly get from a book, well one bought from a normal bookstore.

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185090.42 in reply to 185090.41
Date: 5/18/2011 8:27:18 AM
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Yeah but (as far as i know anyway) Tudors and Spartacus weren't in depth books before they were a tv series so a little different there.
Making a tv series or movie adaption of a book(s) is very different to making a tv series from scratch that is loosely (often very loosely) based on history or a historical figure.

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Date: 5/18/2011 8:38:47 AM
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The third example I should have included was True Blood which was based on a best selling series of books.

Does Game of Thrones have much to do with the CCG Game of Thones?

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Date: 5/18/2011 5:36:59 PM
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I've never played the card game but wiki says that it's based on the Song of Ice and Fire series by George R Martin so yeah, same topic base.

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185090.45 in reply to 185090.44
Date: 5/19/2011 10:11:14 PM
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I think there should be thoughts of making a movie/tv series on The Wheel of Time books by Robert Jordan or the Midkemia series by Raymond E. Feist.

And as for the original topic of Basketball books, the only book type things I've read are the old One on One magazines and Pro Basketball Today I think it was called and the special edition SLAM magazines.

And I think its been asked but where can I find a copy of that Bill Simmons? is that his name? basketball book. It sounds good

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Date: 5/20/2011 12:28:56 AM
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Just jump on amazon matty. It's probably around $20 - $25 - It's called The Book of Basketball by Bill Simmons

Pro Basketball today was great. I used to read it everyweek and got published a fair few times in there letters to the editor bit. Unfortuneatly it died because everyone could get box scores and the news articles on the internet.

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Date: 5/20/2011 1:07:00 AM
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I used to buy it too, and Hoop and other basketball magazines. I used to have to take a lot of public transport and so would need maybe 10 hours of train reading material a week and on the Frankston line you don't want to be reading anything by Shakespeare or Plato on the midnight train or you will get stabbed so basketball magazines were perfect.

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185090.48 in reply to 185090.47
Date: 5/20/2011 1:09:21 AM
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on the Frankston line you don't want to be reading anything by Shakespeare or Plato on the midnight train


It's sad when you have to make these sorts of considerations, but definitely valid.

You could have tried to reason with the thugs and asked if you could resolve your differences by Socratic argument, though.

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Date: 5/20/2011 1:30:04 AM
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Somehow I fear Sophistry and rhetoric just wouldn't work with a gang of dudes who are high and looking for "entertainment".

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185090.50 in reply to 185090.49
Date: 5/20/2011 1:44:56 AM
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Tell 'em to read the Symposium.

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Date: 5/20/2011 9:26:39 AM
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Tell 'em to read the Symposium.


mmmm 2007 marius symposium, give it a try, awesome, awesome wine
also help the guy out as he's going through a messy divorce atm and needs as much sales as possible, this is one winery we dont wanna see go down!

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