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Dr. Seuss Book: Yes, They Found It in a Box

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I'm getting really sick of these monad tutorials

+1 funniest thing i have read in a while (would make a great review of this book on "The Onion", i should think)

Looking forward to reading with some kiddos I know who are big fans.

Too bad they don't take the same care in developing other Seuss projects... it was just awful what they did to the Lorax in the last movie. Poor Dr. probably rolled over in his grave.

If you're wondering how bad The Lorax feature film really was, put succinctly it felt like it was embarrassed about its source material. Few of Seuss' words remain in the dialogue; on the one rare exception, the words were spoken by a character not found in the book and then immediately dismissed as weird.

If The Lorax had Seuss rolling in his grave, The Cat in the Hat with Mike Myers had Seuss spinning hard.

Horton Hears a Who on the other hand is quite good; an honorable example of how Seuss' material can be adapted to a feature film.

That cat in the hat movie was an abomination. I mean, the source material isn't much to work with, however they just took the character and plopped him into some nonsense storyline with naught but suggestive glances towards the book.

Horton hears a who was pretty good though, and I think that was because the book had a plot that you could work with. The lorax had that possibility, but they just mucked it up.

A few more low-lights that come to mind, 1) there was a fucking car-chase, 2) When the lorax makes his entrance it looked/sounded like the death-star exploding.

Devito was cast perfectly I thought though.

I still sometimes catch myself staring out of the window thinking, "when tweetle beetles battle in a puddle that's a tweetle beetle puddle battle. And when tweetle beetles battle with their paddles in a puddle that's a tweetle beetle puddle paddle ba....stop it! Stop it, brain!"

I wonder what would have happened if Dr. Seuss had been German:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcMT395UvWI

"Who comes? ...

Crow comes.

Slow Joe Crow comes.

Who sews crow's clothes?

Sue sews crow's clothes.

Slow Joe Crow sews whose clothes?

Sue's clothes.

Sue sews socks of fox in socks now.

Slow Joe Crow sews Knox in box now.

Sue sews rose on Slow Joe Crow's clothes.

Fox sews hose on Slow Joe Crow's nose.

Hose goes.

Rose grows.

Nose hose goes some.

Crow's rose grows some."

Love reading "Fox in Socks" to my kids.

just seems like nonsense without the drawing in the book to refer to :-)

(David Hyde Pierce--who i think was the brother in the show "Frasier"--reads the entire book in a video on youtube.

"William Ellsworth Spaulding, the director of the education division at Houghton Mifflin who later became its chairman, compiled a list of 348 words he felt were important for first-graders to recognize and asked Geisel to cut the list to 250 words and write a book using only those words. Spaulding challenged Geisel to 'bring back a book children can't put down.' Nine months later, Geisel, using 236 of the words given to him, completed The Cat in the Hat." -- Wikipedia

Dr. Seuss: Language hacker

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