ITT: books you actually don't have to read if you've

Is Lolita literally the only Kubrick work that didn't achieve this?

a scanner darkly is the only PKD book I would say this about.

>>9639168
and no, off the top of my head spartacus is a better read. I haven't read anything other than that and the two books already posted, though.

>>9639147
You don't have to read any book.

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>>9639147

The Maltese Falcon

Some dickhead is going to say The Virgin Suicides so I'm here to tell them they're wrong before they try it.

>>9639147
>if i have seen a clockwork orange i don't need to read the book
You're wrong faget, the film and the book gives each one a radical diferent message. Anon, don't be a fucking lazy and read the book NOW

The Virgin Suicides.
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>>9639147
put down the book, this shit is amazing

also, most kubrick. Barry Lyndon especially.

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>>9639691
>kubrick
plebs

plebs everywhere

stop

>>9639700
sup reddit

>>9639700
fuck off contrarian shit

>>9639706
Kubrick is about as Reddit as you can get. Not to disparage him, but he is.

Barry Lyndon is pleb repellent, though.

>>9639168
Eyes Wide Shut. Both the movie and the book are great tho.

>>9639700
die

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Instead of watching Humphrey Bogart be cool you get a first person narrator trying very hard on every page to convince you that he's cool.

>>9639158
Every King novel, really.

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The film is almost word for word the book.

>>9639147
Heart Of Darkness

>>9640771

this 100%

>>9639716
Who's the book by?

>>9640795
Arthur Schnitzler

>>9640797
Thanks lad

>>9640799
Always

>>9640780
>>9640771
Although this thread is dedicated to being a hedonistic pleb, you two take it to a whole new level.

>>9639168
The Kubrick Lolita movie isn't just worst than the book, it is, stand-alone, a bad movie. I love his works but this is one of the most uninspired films to come from art house cinema

>>9639197
No way. A bunch of the humor from the book doesn't translate in the movie at all.

>>9639298
There's no movie that adapts all of that. It would include about 2 hours of God reciting a bunch of laws to Moses.

>>9640807
I've read Heart Of Darkness, but Apocalypse Now did the same shit only better.

>>9639691
Mark Rylance is incredible in this show

>>9640810
I'd agree for the most part, except when Peter Sellers is on screen.

>>9639691
>most Kubrick
He's my favorite director, but I'd disagree. He often does things a little bit differently than the source material, and although he tends to elevate it, it's still worth reading the damn books.

The 10 Commandments.

>>9639158
>dude it's actually supposed to be a croquet mallet lmao

Moby Dick

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>>9639700
>even attempting to convincingly pretend to deny that Kubrick was one of film's greatest artists

>>9639147
Lol no

>>9640976
Nah, man. However, Orson Welles delivering the sermon is a treat and you can tell Peck is trying hard to be a good Ahab.

>>9639663
this

>>9641144
That was overly worded
Easier to say is
>even etempting to pretend that Kubrick wasn't one of films greatest artists.

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>>9639147

>>9639147
>the ending

You should most definitely read the book

>>9639663
I'm the OP, and I've read the book. You don't need to read it if you've seen the movie. The only difference is that last chapter (which you can read alone) and Alex getting raped.

>>9640325
They cut the girl Llewellyn finds before his death and most of the sheriff stuff at the end. I would rather have the book.

>>9640810
Not a particularly bad movie, but yeah, it's pretty mediocre. The one by Adrian Lyne is even worse.

I hate James Mason stupid face and voice. Kubrick should have pulled the strangelove and have Peter Sellers do all the roles. Even Lolita

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is pretty on point from movie to book. But I'd still recommended anyone read it. Same with Clockwork Orange honestly. It's just hits you on a different level, targets more imaginative senses.

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>>9640860
no

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Sue me

>>9639147
You serious? Read the last paragraphs of clockwork orange and contrast them with the final scene of the film. Kubrik hijacked the narrative

>>9642567
That's the famous last chapter, which was removed from certain editions of the book. Kubrick didn't read that chapter till he was done with the movie. Like I said here >>9642007 you don't need to read the rest of the book if you've seen the movie. And I've read the book multiple times and watched the movie multiple times, and outside of this chapter there's really not that much that makes the novel greater than the movie. And personally, I don't like that chapter. It seemed too contrived to me when I read it. I prefer the ending of the movie

>>9641259
That was overly worded too. Here's the easiest way to say it
>even egtempingt to asay Kubrick wasntno the grateest film artits

>>9640860
Not at all.

>>9640325
This is probably the only case where I think the movie is better than the book, mostly because of how closely the book and the movie are and how clunky the prose felt at times.

>>9640810
>>9640830
>>9642083
I liked it, but I think I was massively blinded by how cute Sue Lyon was.

>>9640860
10/10 made me reply

>>9640860
Great bait.

Movie is good, tho

One flew over the Cuckoo's nest
To Kill a Mockingbird

>>9639168
>>9639147
>>9639158

All of you are fucking retarded

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>>9639147

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>>9644263
>he thinks A Clockwork Orange and The Shining are good books

>all these faggots going on about the ending of A Clockwork Orange

That's stuff everyone who has so much as read the wikipedia page of either the book or the film knows. This is not hidden knowledge you are privy to. And I'm going to give OP some credit and say he already knows this.

>>9639147

Plebeius maximus

>>9639168
Kubrick's Lolita is actually one of the more rare kinds of films given the context of Nabokov's novel; essentially, the script was written almost as a *supplement* to the book for readers to grasp the artistic depth of Lolita. It stands alone, in my opinion, as a good film. As a mirror of the novel, it enriches the audience's experience.

>>9644343
This.

You read the book and watch the movie because cinema and writing both consist of completely different aesthetics. Reading A Clockwork Orange with all that nadsat is a very difference experience than watching the movie.

That said, i think they're both excellent to be honest.

>>9639158
This but because the movie is excellent and the book is rancid ass waste like all of King's output.

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>>9642652
come on
>kboy goodie :)