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Literary Theme Parks
The affront to our more cultivated sensibilities aside, are literary theme parks really signs of the apocalypse? Do they cheapen the written word or testify to its durability? Cormac McCarthy has said that he doesn’t think film adaptations of his books have any effect on the books themselves, that the books are the books and nothing can change them. Even with the thousands of professional and amateur adaptations and reinterpretations of A Christmas Carol, and even since the opening of Dickens World, the book itself remains a great read. Continue reading →
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Tagged A Christmas Carol, art, Barnes & Noble, BBC, Bill McKibben, bookstores, Borders, boston, Brentwood, Chatham, Cittaslow, City Lights, consumerism, Cormac McCarthy, Dickens World, Dutton's Booksellers, education, Elliott Bay Book Company, eReaders, Faust, flying cars, global monoculture, human scale, James Howard Kunstler, literature, Massachusetts, Midnight Special Bookstore, New Salem, organic grocer, Powell's, Santa Monica, shop local, Six Flags, Sonoma, technology, technophilia, The Divine Comedy, The Guardian, The Iliad, theme parks, tourism, World of Books
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