<![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book - io9 Comments]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> why do they appear to have lightsabers in the movie? Anyone, anyone?

chumleyex

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> @P3X-19: Both actually. Stephen king made a homage to it in a short story involving teleportation, except with gates instead of innate human ability. He called it "Jaunting" and even gave Bester credit in the afterward. And somebody already mentioned the Jumper credit.

Ghede

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> @ghost:  Yeah, I'm definately gonna read the book nowas well as Fade, sounds great.  I like these types of novels.  One I liked is Suburban Gods.
 
 



Darkweave

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> @Ghede:
I think that Davy actually mentioned that book in Jumper. Either that or some Stephen King novel...


P3X-19

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> @mr4fingers: Yeah, it's "Deliverance, but with Truckers". So he jumps to avoid ass-rape. Although that's his second Jump, the first time was during a beating from his dad.

Kevin Kelly

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> I remember the book Fade-- the premise was really cool, but I remember being mildly traumatized when I read it as a child because the invisible lead character caught his school chums in acts of incest. Pretty intense stuff for book in the Juvenile section of my library by the author of The Chocolate War. The characters were kids, but all the themes were very adult.

nymphy1

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> @tetracycloide: I dunno...if I was a Jumper, the only person on the planet I think I'd be afraid of would definitely have to be Samuel L. Jackson...

Ourobolus

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> @The HZA: She could play that role for me anytime.

Git Em SteveDave seeks Lego build buddy. How about you?

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> @Ourobolus: two because even with someone else playing the lead role i would probably have skipped the movie just to avoid seeing another clandestine orgainzation doggedly pursuing someone with 'the powah!'

tetracycloide

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> Horror of all horrors. Hayden-bot has been cast as Case in the Neromancer movie. Does Gibson know about this?!!?

nullmode

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> heh... I like that book David... He's only spent about $200K in a few years, unlike some people.

Angryrider

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> Where'd my comment go?

mr4fingers

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> I read this book when I was about the age of the title character. I thought it was pretty awesome at the time. It was a pretty good simple exercise in fantasy. A good "what if" book that didn't patronize its presumably teen audience. However, you didn't mention the first time Davy jumps...that was pretty intense/crazy. Won't spoil it here except to say that it involves a trucker, which is probably bad enough. Anywhoo, good book.

mr4fingers

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> If you like the premise of this book, I highly recommend Ken Grimwood's Replay, which is kinda like a "Groundhog Day" over the course of 25 years. An excellent review of it is here: [www.lostbooks.org]

MrBabyMan

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> @Ghede:
I would just recommend Bester. Period.

Plague

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> @Ghede: Gould makes a huge nod of acknowledgement to Bester at the end of this novel, which was pretty cool of him.

Kevin Kelly

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> I love his second book, Wildside even more. Steven -- Do NOT let them film it!

JennaW

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> @Hekkashesh: ...or 90% of all cinema. This is a truism.

But in the present case we might read this article as am incitement to read the book, which is not awfully well known, even though you might have cursed the day you shelled out money for the movie. Hm?

ghost

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> Since I never read the novel or the movie I didn't know about the jump sites.

That seems to me to be directly inspired/ripped from the SF Novel "The Stars my Destination" by Alfred Bester (Also published as "Tiger, Tiger"). It basically takes place a few hundred/thousand years after a scientist discovered he could teleport or "Jaunt" and that other people could too. They had to memorize the coordinates and be able to visualize the surrounding area, so Jaunt platforms were constructed around the globe to make this easier. According to wikipedia, it has been described as an ancestor of cyberpunk.

I highly recommend it.

Ghede

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> @tetracycloide: Add Rachel Bilson

She was terrible. I think she can only play the cutesy, spunky would-be girlfriend. She doesn't act.

The HZA

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> @tetracycloide: Two whole bullets? Why not just the first one? That's enough for me.

Ourobolus

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> The title of this thread can easily be applied to 90% of all sci fi cinema....

Hekkashesh

]]> <![CDATA[Jumper: Here's Why You Should Skip the Movie and Just Read the Book]]> why are there dozens of bullet points here when there really only needs to be two:
-hayden christianson
-cliche templar organization



tetracycloide

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