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@FuriousMachine I haven't but might have to give them a look! You have to give people some latitude with the odd stereotype, especially with comedy but it depends how one note it gets. I confess to being completely fed up with the stereotypes that often surround Scotland in media, which typically degenerate into it being a hard bitten grim place (see some of my earlier comments around Shuggie Bain in this thread) or voicing dwarves in fantasy (I'm looking at you Witcher). Any Norwegian stereotypes get on your nerves?
@FuriousMachine I thought they did a good job with Maurice, although having watched it directly off the back of reading the book you can definitely see where they changed things. One of the main characters from the book wasn't even featured in the film and some of the other changes look like they were made for time reasons, which I can appreicate.
The kids said they enjoyed them both but probably enjoyed the film more because it bought the characters to life. That is probably more down to my ineptitude at giving them a voice when I've read them the book though.
It's actually quite enjoyable passing things on to them. They are actually amazingly receptive to a lot of stuff that I sometimes think will be above them in terms of ability to understand. I think it will be a while before I'll be able to read them some Ian Banks though
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