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Resurrecting the Movies thread...
MaineWriter:
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4) Re Kindle -- Leslie, I've been interested in the Kindle, but I'm concerned about one aspect of it. If you lose or wreck it, does that mean you lose all of the books you purchased on it? I'd be afraid to have hundreds of dollars worth of books at stake in that one little package. Or are your purchases kept on record, so you can just buy new hardware and re-download your same texts?
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Hey Katherine, good to see you!
If you buy books at amazon.com, they are stored in "Your Media Library" at amazon. So they are always available to you there for download. Say you finish a book and you delete it from your Kindle, then decide later you want to read it again, you can download it again.
If you buy books from different sites (fictionwise, mobipocket), many of those sites also store your purchased books, so you can download them again should the need arise.
Free book sites--well, they're free, so just go and get them for free again!
You can also transfer books from your Kindle to your PC via the USB cable. You can't read them on your PC but you can back them up so you have them available locally in case something happens to your Kindle.
I started a thread called the E-Book files over in the Creative Writer's Corner. If you want to ask me a million questions about the Kindle--which I am happy to answer--maybe we should take this discussion over there and keep this thread focused on movies.
Leslie
PS. The Film Club is very good. Katherine, as a mom with teenage boys, I think you might find it very interesting. I know as a mother of teens, it speaks to me. L
tamarack:
I just got home from my son's house where we watched a movie called The Prestige. I apologize if it has been mentioned here before. Has anybody else seen it? It's from 2006, I believe. I can safely say that this is maybe the best movie I've seen since Brokeback, at least in terms of having to do some thinking about what I just saw, even after discussing it for 15 minutes or so with my son, who has seen it 4 or 5 times. I'm going to have to watch it some more in order to catch everything.
It's a movie about rival magicians and the name comes from the three stages of a magic trick. First, there is the setup, or the "pledge," where the magician shows the audience something that appears ordinary but is probably not, making use of misdirection. Next is the performance, or the "turn," where the magician makes the ordinary act extraordinary. Lastly, there is the "prestige," where the effect of the illusion is produced.
There are trailers online that you can watch to see if you are interested. I knew after about 5 seconds that this would be a good movie, but I had no idea it would be so involved and hold so many secrets.
This movie reminds me of Memento in many ways. For those of you who haven't seen Memento, the movie starts at the end and proceeds toward the beginning in sections, and you discover the story along the way. Even after you've seen it once there are still many reasons to watch it again with your new-found knowledge. I feel the same way about The Prestige.
BTW, there is a good explanation of it on Wikipedia, but don't read it until you see the movie. Use it to answer the questions that you have after you watch it for the first or second time.
Oh yeah...Hugh Jackman is in it. :)
MaineWriter:
Tamarack,
I loved The Prestige. I loved everything about it, even though it took a few watchings to get it all.
It is particularly fitting that you saw it this week with the Batman movie on our heels...also featuring Christian Bale.
L
tamarack:
Hi, Leslie! Yes, this is an amazing movie. I'm glad to hear you liked it, too; I wondered if I was overreacting!
And Christian Bale, of course! I've got Batman Begins from Netflix which I intended to watch again before TDK; I guess I'd better get going on that, eh?
BelAir:
I watched a HORRIBLE movie last night, called Hostage with Bruce Willis. Really, the part of the movie regarding the kidnapped children I could have tolerated (despite the loop holes) but there was this second coexistent 'crazy murderous teenager' plot that was just absolutely horrendous (and horrific)...
Horrible horrible horrible.
That said, it was so compelling I couldn't turn off the TV. I was like "I should not be watching this. I cannot believe I am sitting here watching this horrible horrible stuff... but there I sat..."
:-\
No one should watch this movie ever.
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