Oh that Das Boot ( again )

CptGrayWolf · 01-30-07, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Woof1701

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Originally Posted by Myxale

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Originally Posted by RawRecruit

The best Das Boot treat you can give yourself is reading the book

. I'd seen the film first and own the DVD, but reading the book surpassed even that experience. It also makes you realise just how good a book->movie conversion it is. Possibly the best I've ever come across....

Amen to that!

Actually I prefer the movie to the book, and that is rare. However there's another very good submarine book=>movie conversion: Hunt For Red October. Apart from a few small things they took out of the movie to make it shorter ...

I aslo prefer the movie to the book. The english translation of the book is almost unreadable to me. I heard there were two versions out there and I guess I have the wrong one. Makes me wonder how the translator ever passed his english class.

Nevertheless, I have learned more about life onboard U-boats from the Das Boot book, then from any other book on this subject.
And of course, if you can read German, reading the original must be amazing!