From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Friday, March 11, 2016 at 9:36:18 PM UTC-5, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > On Wednesday, March 9, 2016 at 3:35:50 PM UTC-5, danny burstein wrote:   
   >   
   > > to be fair the book is very, very, good. It's just that   
   > > the movie is super duper terrific.   
   >   
   > I respectfully disagree.  The only reason I was able to slog through   
   > the book was because it was a good _subway_ story and I was interested   
   > in that stuff.  But I had to skip past all the junk about the lives of   
   > the prostitute and all her clients, ex-motorman, group leader, the   
   > pioneer female tower operator, the head cop, mayor, mayor's aide,   
   > etc.  Plus, it had _every_ 1970s cliche of NYC being violent and   
   > decayed.   
      
   For that you need *The Warriors*, the second best subway movie ever made. And   
   you don't actually need to know Thucydides. And the star is the Vignelli map.   
      
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