It was definitely a short book that went into a lot of mind conversations, but over all, it runs similarly to the movie. The exception is the song Maude teaches Harold, as well as I think some of the people conversations were cut out of the movie to make it run better. Also, I don't remember the film showing Maude having neighbors and being friendly with them. But I could be wrong. It's been a few months since I watched the movie.
The book was worth buying and reading, just as a comparison to what is on celluloid. If I weren't having a busy (Easter / Passover) weekend, I'd totally sit on the couch for 90 minutes and refresh myself with Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon. But, it's a holiday, so this post being shorter than the average tiny post, is the reason for it.
As much as I try not to get political around my blog, the book I'm currently reading is Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals by Saul D. Alinsky. It was first published in 1971 and I think the paperback I have, has a similar typewriter font to it. Not a first edition by any means, but I think replicated enough that it's to show authenticity... the copy I have. I'm only a few pages in to the forward, so I can't comment on what's going on so far.
However, the Amazon synopsis is as follows:
Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know “the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one.” Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibits his style at its best. Like Thomas Paine before him, Alinsky was able to combine, both in his person and his writing, the intensity of political engagement with an absolute insistence on rational political discourse and adherence to the American democratic tradition.
I guess we will see how this goes.
Until then.. enjoy the chocolate bunny weekend.
Cheers;
That book, as well as Reveille for Radicals, is a great non-instruction book for protests and social change.
ReplyDeleteBy 'non-instruction' I mean that it gives general principles and examples, as well as stern admonitions that each social change action must be directed towards the specific problem, not just a copy of what worked in the book - because it won't work except in specific circumstances.