Contact.

It’s not that the book is bad, it’s actually quite good. But I remember when the movie came out everyone was saying how much more in depth and expansive the book was. So when I got ‘round to reading the book I was surprised how faithful an adaptation the movie was. The book was written when the Soviet Union still existed, so there’s some Cold War subplots that were out of date and excised from the movie. But other than that the movie is pretty close to Sagan’s book and, IMO, and better way to experience the story.

Wendell Berry.

I will always be ashamed that I’d never even heard about this master of American letters until just a few years ago, let alone read anything by him.

Encyclopedia Brown.

If I start mowing my lawn and about halfway though I say, “I think my lawn realizes what I’m trying to accomplish here”, and stop, I have not mowed my lawn.