Full disclosure: if this post sounds like it’s from a crotchety old man, it’s probably because I am a crotchety old man and you need to get off my lawn. All right, with that out of the way, I want to talk about how books about history are always better than movies. Yes, always. I said it. But it’s not for the reasons they say: movies are a compressed form, and changes have to be made to fit the narrative into it. Bullshit. If you want to change things for the narrative, write fiction. You can have any narrative in…
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