Books and Movie Scripts (Screen Plays)--Challenges for Readers

In earlier posts I spoke of Dan Brown's The DaVinci Code which I recently listened to as an English audiobook, read as a Spanish companion book, and listened to as a Spanish audiobook.  Today I saw the movie--playing the movie in Spanish with Spanish subtitles.

Ron Howard was the director of the film and Dan Brown was one of the executive producers.  Having recently read and listened to the book so much, it was clear to me where the movie diverged from the book.  Some of the changes were to bring the movie-goer "up to speed" as things progressed during the movie.  Other changes seemed to involve representatives of the Roman Catholic Church in more negative ways that were shown in the book.

If you have read the book, the movie is enjoyable and you can spot the differences between the book and the movie.  If all you see is the movie, much of the richness expressed in the book is lost--along with much of the human dynamics expressed in the book.

I have had similar experiences with J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books and movies.  Knowing the book makes a lot of difference in experiencing the movie.

Getting Read--RSS Feeds--Why Promote a Blog?

Why would I want anyone else to read this blog?  What difference could it make?  What is an RSS (Real Simple Syndication) link and service.  Why should I promote this blog?

Those were questions I answered for myself before starting this blog.  I do want others to read the blog posts.  I write things I think are important memory joggers or insights that I want to share with others who may want to read them.  One way to make that an easy process--for people to get the updates--is to have people subscribe to and RSS feed--Real Simple Syndication.  I've just added the "gadget" to this blog to make it easy for people to subscribe to posts, comments, or both.  http://www.bloglines.com is a good source for managing subscriptions.  This allows readers or "followers" of the blog to be notified automatically when something changes on the blog.

So, why should I promote the blog?  One of my goals is to make a positive difference in the world--for everyone I contact and touch.  This is another way to reach out and touch someone.  These reflections, ideas, and insights I have found to be valuable in my own life and I want to share them with others who may want to read them.  Could it help for my business?  Perhaps, if someone who needs the kinds of things I offer and begins to trust me by reading my blog posts, they can find ways to contact me and we can do business.

I have had the same goal for 40+ years as a professional, to make a positive difference in the world by helping people and organizations learn to change in order to improve their quality of (business) life now and for the future.  Want to help me do this?  Subscribe to my blog via an RSS feed and share it with others.

I don't have many comments to my blog posts yet, though some friends care enough to read my blogs and to give me feedback--including finding some typographical errors I can come back and correct.  Thanks for the feedback and corrections, by the way.  Part of delivering value is to have the blogs spelled correctly and make sense.

While I am fluent in more languages than English, I write better in English, so the blog posts are in my native language.  My apologies and congratulations to English language learners (ELLs) who have learned to read English as a second (or additional) language.