Making this post for 2 reasons:
1. Curious
2. Always on the look out for more books.
I’m currently reading “a Catcher in the Rye” for the first time. And I feel like it woulda be HELLA hard to translate to screen and if they ever did, it would suck.
Your picks?
Honestly I wish all of my favorite books would be made into movies.
shareThat's a wonderful book and I agree, it would be difficult to adapt to the screen as so much of the story is inside the kid's head
Also, I believe Salinger was militantly opposed to any film adaptation and his estate seems to be honoring his wishes
I honestly can't think of an other example but I'll mull it over today
Tough question Katie, tough ones are the best ones;)
I'm a little over halfway done. I'm not sure it's gonna be a book I need to revisit a lot, but I'm enjoying it quite a bit and it's a lot easier than I anticipated it being. In high school my English class took a poll between "The Catcher in the Rye" and "Of Mice and Men" and OMAM won, so we read that.
shareYeah, they tried to force us to read a lot of the classics during High School...I refused to read any of them because I was a defiant idiot, didn't want to listen and was quite satisfied with 'C's...
As it turns out I wound up reading many of the books they required after the fact and they were pretty terrific!
Stupid me:/
You can’t go wrong with Steinbeck.
shareI finally read The Grapes of Wrath long after the teachers threatened me with Summer School and all sorts of punishments...Turns out it was a beautifully written story and I missed out by
being a jerk...never threaten to bust a blockhead in the head with a block!
Reading should be fun not forced
Anyway, I'd have gotten an A in that lit class if I had any brains...great novel!
I hated high school because of all the social stuff and didn’t do any studying or homework. I just didn’t care. I should have been failed out of high school. When I went to college I did a 180 because I liked the college environment. But in high school I wouldn’t read any of my reading assignments except one: To Kill A Mockingbird. That was the one book I connected with and I couldn’t put down.
shareI flunked out of college. Eventually, I'll go back. But I've been out for 3-4 years.
shareI read "Grapes of Wrath" prior to "Of Mice and Men" and I didn't like either. I've tried to reread them both as an adult, but couldn't get into them. I just don't like Steinbeck. Same with Hemmingway.
shareThis is tough for me as I usually don't like it when they adapt a book I love as I'm attached to it. So I generally don't want any book I like to be adapted. Yet if I watch the movie first, and then read the book I can keep them as two separate entities and will usually still like both. :)
That being said, I think Cicada Spring by Christian Galacar could be a good one to adapt.
I find this a bit unusual, because people are always saying that there are great books that would work out great as movies, but it's true: there are books I hope never get translated to movies, because they were bad to start with. Off the top of my head, I'd choose to blacklist "In Pursuit of the Green Lion."
It's a sequel novel to a much better one called "A Vision of Light." It suffered a literary version of "sequel syndrome," and was so bad that I threw it away, rather than sell it to Half-Price books.
Another horrible book I've read was Ursula K. Le Guinn's "The Word For World Is Forest." Imagine a really badly-written version of "Avatar," with no avatars, the native aliens are ugly green monkeys, and everyone kills each other. That's what that book is all about.
A third really crappy sci-fi book that I hope is never made into a movie, was "Necropath." It was so depressing, that I would have rather killed myself than read the rest of that book. I could only make it halfway through before I had to quit.
Some books, by their length, and multiple plot lines, lend themselves better to the TV miniseries. Making a movie would leave so much stuff out it would be a travesty.
Books made into TV miniseries - some faves that they shouldn't make into even a 3 hour movie
Shogun
Noble House
The Winds of War
War and Remembrance
Lord of Flies by William Golding
Not because it's a classic. But because it is a terrible, terrible book.
A huge chunk of population have been spared of this terrible book because they don't read.
If they make a movie out of it, chances are they too will experience this horror.
Um.....they did make a movie out of it. It was an old one made in black and white, but it's already been translated into film.
shareI've never read the book. But it's on my TBR list. But I've got 500 something books on there, and I don't know how far down the list it is XD
But LFTF already had a film adaptation, but I've never seen it.
Do yourself a favor. Burn that list before you get there.
shareHaha. Why didn't you like it?
shareLike it? I had to literally make a resolution to finish the book. I get it that it's subjective. Some people's taste might differ from others but trust be nobody in their right mind would want to read this book. It's boring, obvious, and predictable. It is a waste of time.
shareI don't know, I guess it depends on the author. I've read plenty of predictable books and seen plenty of predictable movies, but they weren't all bad.
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I saw that. I've never read LOTF but I do know it's about toxic masculinity, so making it about girls is really stupid.
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Look, I like seeing strong females included in film, but when they remove the men entirely and recycle an old script in a horrible new way, that's when I draw the line, and this LOTF crap story will probably be just another turd they'll try coating in gold.
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