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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
Of course.
Reading a score is vastly different from sitting at the opera.
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I'm not sure I concur. You seem to discount entirely the reader's imagination. For that matter, if I
read a piece of music, I might "hear" someone with incredible pipes in my head--Freddie Mercury, Christina Aquilera, Cher, Barbra Streisand, Whitney...whereas the person who might perform it for me, live, might not be nearly that good. (I mean, that's always the case with Queen, today, for example. That kid has a good voice, but Freddie, he ain't.)
In terms of books, we all have the same thing going--we've all read books where we've been woefully disappointed in the movie version. The movie version can't come close to what we imagined, in our minds. (I mean, there's a reason, all these years down the road, why the
Dragonriders of Pern remain a moviemakers' fantasy...).
I'm not sure you can say that somehow, renting a movie of X and digesting a book of it are so inexorably different that they should be treated like chalk and cheese in this
specific discussion.
Hitch