 By Kaely Monahan
Life is filled with decisions — which according to The Choice is the secret of life. The latest in the Nicholas Sparks canon, the story focuses on what happens when we say yes or no to love. As a reader and moviegoer, I must be frank. I have not seen any of Sparks’ book-to-film adaptations, nor have I read any of his books. The romance genre is not my cup of tea. That said, The Choice was not as sappy as I feared. And a conversation with Sparks himself illuminated the romance genre for me. Of course, The Choice has its fair share of saccharine love-sap that hangs like treacle from the North Carolina woods, but the story itself mostly holds up.
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By Kaely Monahan  “It is a truth universally acknowledged” that authoress Jane Austen is one of the premier writers in the English language. Beloved the world over and through time, her stories have been adapted into many successful films and even inspired spin-off stories (Clueless, Austenland, Bridget Jones’s Diary).
Perhaps none is more absurd, delightfully fresh and entertaining than Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. Author Seth Grahame-Smith adapted the Austen original novel. Initially he was not a fan of Austen, but discovered when he was older the compelling nature of her works. “When I read Jane Austen for the first time it was Pride and Prejudice and I was a 14-year-old English class student. Stupid, high school freshman boy who just couldn’t get it. I did not care about Lizzie and who she married when I was a 14-year-old boy,” he said. |
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