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The Orchid Thief was an interesting nonfiction book. The movie was horrible and had nothing to do with the book. ...
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634--Orchards, fruits, forestry: Epitaph for a Peach
635--Garden crops (Horticulture): The Orchid Thief
636--Animal husbandry: The Lord God Made Them All
640--Home economics & family living:
641--Food and drink: The Perfectionist
643--Househo ... ... depart a bit, but I think that was to protect family a bit.
And one that doesn't match the book in any real sense -
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These 13 world, I think, ... 10. Pocket guide to Hawaii's Trees and Shrubs by H. Douglas Pratt
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I assume LT recommended this book to me because I own (and adored) The Orchid Thief. And I must admit that my first impression upon seeing the book cover was that this book was a rip off of the other. Well, I was wrong. Both books stand ... ... e
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Vinayg's post reminds me of The Orchid Thief. The book was an excellent nonficiton account of the history orchid collecting, including an interesting story of a Florida poacher.
The movie was a piece of tripe where the author falls in love(?!) with an/the orchid poacher.
The ... ... I love garden books, especially anything by Bev Nichols. You will enjoy Orchid Fever ... I read it about the same time as The Orchid Thief and found the two really went well together. There are hundreds and hundreds more...
But skip the movie with the same name as The Orchid Thief. The book was an excellent nonfiction account of orchid collecting and poaching, the movie had nothing to do with it.
Oh, you should probably also skip the movie with the same title as The Per ... Under the Tuscan Sun
Harry Potter
Twilight
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Orchid Thief spawned a movie called "Adaptation"
The Da Vinci Code
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Big Fish
House of Sand and Fog
Little Children
The Ice Storm
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
I ... This probably doesn't even fit in this topic, because the movie had abso-blooming-lutely nothing to do with the book. The Orchid Thief was a very interesting non-fiction account of a Florida orchid poacher and other orchid lovers. The movie had some weird romance and other fictional drivel ... ... where they teach you how to pump out blockbusters, etc), and the first half is all a fairly straightforward movie based on The Orchid Thief interspersed with bits about trying to adapt it. The second half or so is "written" by Donald and is full of car chases and explosions, when you find out ... ... Mt Toobie to be... not that I need any!
This is probably a stupid question but is Adaptation in fact very different from The Orchid Thief? I'd always assumed they were quite similar - which admittedly would probably make The Orchid Thief an even weirder book than Adaptation is a movie... The ... ... "Raising Arizona" and I think I've seen everything they've done since.
I thought "Adaptation" being an adaptation of The Orchid Thief was just a gimmick - if it really did start out that way it might make it even more bizarre. ... twisted romp, and I think I will always like The Wizard of Oz best in movie form). Call me a philistine.
ETA: Oh, and The Orchid Thief was an amazing book, and "Adaptation" (based on the attempted adaptation of it) was the most twisted movie I've seen for a while. I really recommend ... The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean #30 - The Orchid Thief is about another surprising (to me) and EXPENSIVE commodity. ...
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The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
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Vermeer In Bosnia by Lawrence Weschler Just starting The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean. It's been sitting on my shelf for several months now. This is the book Nicolas Cage's character attempted to turn into a screenplay in the movie Adaptation. The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean ... HATE when the book (or sometimes the only book title) is used to produce a film that only vaguely resembles the original. The Orchid Thief comes to mind. And I hear that generations of school kids are now totally confused about The Hunchback of Notre Dame, thanks to Disney. ... side advantage of teaching me a little bit more about the relationship between Freud and Jung than I knew before.
49. The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean. This book grew out of a New York Times article about the "orchid thief" - a man as wild as the Florida swamps where the ghost orchids ... ... feel like seeing the Kite Runner at all - the clips I've seen just don't feel right to me.
And I still have to read the Orchid Thief - when I saw Adaptation I thought they had invented the book for the film! ... and lovely and funny and true, with the kind of writing that you just want to wrap around yourself like a blanket.
180. The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
"John Laroche is a tall guy, skinny as a stick, pale-eyed, slouch-shouldered, and sharply handsome, in spite of the fact that he is ... 635--Garden crops (Horticulture): The Orchid Thief
108/1000; 53/100 68. The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean. Excellent! The Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean Recently noted two films about the (im)possibility to make a film from a particular book:
Adaptation from The Orchid Thief
and
A Cock and Bull Story (no touchstone for the film) from Tristram Shandy
For the other three some teenage favorites:
Sophie's Choice
A Clockwork Orange ... ... engineering: Castle
634--Orchards, fruits, forestry: Epitaph for a Peach
635--Garden crops (Horticulture): The Orchid Thief
636--Animal husbandry: The Lord God Made Them All
641--Food and drink: The Perfectionist
643--Household & household equipment: The You-don't-need ... ... about the American Revolution.
And when I was about that age, I adored Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine and Beauty by Robin McKinley - both retold fairy tales.
Hope this helps :-) Beauty by Robin McKinley
A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog by Mercer Mayer
Common Nonsense by Andy Rooney
Daddy's Little Girl by Mary Higgins Clark
Joyful Noise by Paul Fleischman The Orchid Thief
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
The Glass Castle
It Was On Fire When I Layed Down On It
and how could I have forgotten The Princess Bride? "Collecting can be a sort of love sickness."
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
... as in, I slowed down at the end to make it last longer:
Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand, (already mentioned)
The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean, already mentioned
Animals In Translation by Temple Grandin Not mentioned, I don't think, and I double loved this one
Oh, ... The Hunt for Red October
Babette's Feast
Out of Africa
The Orchid Thief
Bridget Jones Diary
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
... Krakauer, John Berendt & Truth & Beauty, although I thought Autobiography of a Face was better.
I'd like to add Stiff, The Orchid Thief and The Bounty: the True Story of the Munity on the Bounty by Caroline Alexander. Make that two of us. I have neither read the book, The Orchid Thief nor seen the movie. ... I just finished The $64 Tomato, which was pretty darn funny. I'm probably one of the only people who hasn't read The Orchid Thief, although I read the original New Yorker article and saw the movie. ... People by Paul Johnson - courtesy of AsYouKnow_Bob
A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman and The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean, both from Katbook, with an unexpected copy of Sisterhood of Spies by Elizabeth McIntosh (for which, many thanks!)
and To Say ... I just finished The Orchid Thief and reviewed it for LT. I enjoyed it. Obsession in all its forms is something I find interesting, and this variety isn't overly harmful (except to the early orchid hunters!)
It's a very fast read, too, which doesn't hurt, since the to-be-read pile ideally ... ... mind. Copies of Black Orchids are available in mass market paperbacks for very little - perhaps one could be paired with The Orchid Thief? Or, if he's not very fond of reading, with a gift of stout? In honor of Wolfe's drinking...
Glad your memory doesn't rival Saul's (and humble mine)! ... ... wrong: a Wolfe story I have forgotten would be Christmas gift for me.
If a Nero Wolfe Story is preferred over say, The Orchid Thief, "The Black Orchid" would make an excellent (I had to replace 'satisfactory') introduction: Wolfe out of his element (out of the Brownstone), petty orchid ... ... The Color of Magic (why no touchstone for that, I wonder?), a 1977 or thereabouts edition of 1984, and Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief. Darn it. I really don't have a budget for books, but thanks to LisaLynne's recommendation I just bought The Orchid Thief for $4.95.
Thank you, ma'am! Orchids are lovely, but mostly too fussy for me. If you want a great book about orchid obsession, try The Orchid Thief.
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