For real. I listened to the audiobook in 2 sittings (driving across the country) and couldn't imagine how the character talks in the book. I recently picked up a physical copy and flipped to one of his chapters and was kinda disappointed to be honest, but it was still about as expected

Gadget in Chip N Dale too

I never visit a record store without visiting the dollar bin to look for shit records with cool album art to display. Actually found some cool music that way, too

TIFU by buying too much crypto

FTFY

I know plenty of non-graduates that are capable of reading the label on a bottle of medicine before downing half the bottle.

Most of these non-graduates are children

I did this a few years ago, at least one album by an artist I didn't already listen to regularly every week. My music taste is still defined by that year.

I know this, but in the constant barrage of content and shortening attention spans we have today, movies are keeping some big stories from the past alive, and are becoming part of the universe begun by the books.

I assumed OP was talking about books that had a long lasting impression that were commercially successful today. Charles Dickens and Mark Twain were big for their time, but I wouldn't expect an adaptation of Great Expectations to generate billions in revenue the way Harry Potter did.

Narnia didn't really have the lasting power of LotR outside of christian circles tho, imo. The movies get big and then die off. There hasn't been a series that got past 4 of the 7. Sometimes schools read LWW but that's really it for the series.

LotR is big and continues to be big, mostly thanks to Peter Jackson. I'm glad the Hobbit movies didn't kill the franchise, and RoP is doing pretty well all things considered

I think Dune has potential, but the books are such a slog for the average scifi movie viewer imo