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last night I stepped over a shadow in the hall. I can't seem to remember there are no cats in the house.

I had no idea that aspidites was raising quail in her basement. OMG! see the peeps


Jim and I watched Howl's Moving Castle last night. Wow, someone had a list of my mythology buttons to push. There must be a flurry of screencapping for icons and desktops, especially of Howl shedding his feathers.

I am all the more boggled because I don't generally care for Dianna Wynne Jones. Can anyone tell me whether reading the book will give me more wow, or is the reason I liked it so well that it bears little resemblance to the book?

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[the-reverand.livejournal.com]

For me the book was more wow, yes. Different in many ways (Miyazaki took more than a couple of liberties, most notably that there is actually less of the war business, and (if I recall) no birdbeast!Howl fighting battleships... he briefly turns beastly for other reasons) but everything is explained and you get to know Howl even better. I like Sophie in the book even *more* than in the film... which is a lot. :)

I definitely recommend it, but yes, there are significant differences.

[reasdream.livejournal.com]

As the other person said, they are definitely different and same. The war is less important, and M. left out A Lot of stuff about the Witch of the Waste.

I like Jones' better, but that's because the story is more poetic. Also, I like DWJ.

The best way to describe the difference is that DWJ wrote very British (Welsh!) story, and when M adapted it, he made it very Japanese. Same basic soup, different herbs added. If that makes sense.

[the-reverand.livejournal.com]

That's it exactly! Nicely put.

[angelwolf24.livejournal.com]

Aww those Quail are cute.

I haven't seen HMC yet, but I've been wanting to. I'm glad to hear it's actually good. :D

[roadkillgod.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the movie. But I remember the book quite clearly (read it when i was a kid).

Worth it by itself.

[sunspiral.livejournal.com]

I really preferred the book over the movie. The movie was sorta what if Miyazaki had found a copy of the book in the street, rain-soaked and missing about half its pages from being run over a few times, skimmed through it and decided to borrow the title and a few ideas but mostly write the script about his own political agenda. Not that I disagree with his agenda, but it really bodyslams the actual plot right out of the way in many places. Not to mention how various characters are mashed together in ways that make minimal sense.