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[Rev. Rye]

It's been a while since I read 2001. I actually lent it to somebody who never gave it back, but I seem to remember him explaining a lot more though. For example what the monolith actually was (or was doing) and what happens at the end. Whereas in the movie you end up with that LSD light show and then does he live out the rest of his life there or does he rapidly age, it's kind of fun that it's really open to interpretation. Speaking of 2001, the blu-ray is awesome. I dunno if there was a widescreen DVD version, but I know with some (all?) of Kubricks' movies the blu-ray was the first wide screen version, Full Metal Jacket for sure anyway. I had 2001 on VHS and it was pretty faded. But on the blu ray some of the panoramic shots are just amazing, almost like watching Planet Earth - even HAL thinks so. In fact he wants to sing you a song about it...

Yes, there have been widescreen versions of 2001 on DVD. And for the record, it was only Kubrick's last three films that didn't get a widescreen release on home video (I actually own the original Widescreen version of A Clockwork Orange, one of my favourite films). That said, I heard he actually preferred fullscreen for those three films. Well, nobody's perfect.

Back to books, I'm finishing More Information than You Require, and will soon go on and read The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian (The first volume of three in the collected Robert Howard Conan edition.)