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Dec. 28th, 2007 12:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackDid you know, kipper is a sort of smoked haddock?
OK, you do know that. But in twenty-five years, no-one told me that. It's the sort of thing that it seems odd to run up to someone in the street and say "Hey, just in case you don't know, Haddock is a sort of smoked kipper (or vice versa)!") And yet, it would have been useful if someone had. It came up in conversation, and it suddenly clicked when I realised those two fish being discussed were the same.
(Being vegetarian, I've never known any of the details about quite a lot of sorts of meat, just enough to know I didn't eat it. I had a vague impression you didn't want to get slapped in the face with a wet one, but none at all what they were like to eat. And it never happened to come up in any book I was reading or work I was doing. Well, until yesterday; you'll be unsurprised to learn that it was a literary allusion that finally did bring it up.)
Conversely, someone (iirc) didn't know that the horse's head in the bed was from the Godfather. That, people (mainly the simpsons) really DO run up to me and tell me, despite never (yet) seeing the film. (It's near the top of my list.)
OK, you do know that. But in twenty-five years, no-one told me that. It's the sort of thing that it seems odd to run up to someone in the street and say "Hey, just in case you don't know, Haddock is a sort of smoked kipper (or vice versa)!") And yet, it would have been useful if someone had. It came up in conversation, and it suddenly clicked when I realised those two fish being discussed were the same.
(Being vegetarian, I've never known any of the details about quite a lot of sorts of meat, just enough to know I didn't eat it. I had a vague impression you didn't want to get slapped in the face with a wet one, but none at all what they were like to eat. And it never happened to come up in any book I was reading or work I was doing. Well, until yesterday; you'll be unsurprised to learn that it was a literary allusion that finally did bring it up.)
Conversely, someone (iirc) didn't know that the horse's head in the bed was from the Godfather. That, people (mainly the simpsons) really DO run up to me and tell me, despite never (yet) seeing the film. (It's near the top of my list.)
Re: For the hard of herring
Date: 2007-12-28 05:31 pm (UTC)Re: For the hard of herring
Date: 2007-12-28 06:23 pm (UTC)(the movie is ok, but doesn't come near the awesomeness of the book)
Re: For the hard of herring
Date: 2007-12-29 12:28 am (UTC)In fact, I'm interested to hear you say that, because your taste always is impeccable, and I generally agree with it without question. However, in this instance (although watching the film first made it harder to judge fairly, my images of the characters in the book are coloured by the ones in the film) this may be one of the very very few books where I think the book was good, but I possibly prefer the adaption. The book certainly had some wonderful moments that weren't in the film, and I had a very similar experience reading both, so I think the adaption was very good. However a lot of the aspects of the book I like the most seem to be encapsulated so well in the film, I almost feel like the film was overall better, for all it was based entirely on the book.
Re: For the hard of herring
Date: 2007-12-29 06:34 pm (UTC)Re: For the hard of herring
Date: 2008-01-03 08:26 pm (UTC)