BOOKS! That are NOT YET Movies.. But Damn Sure Should Be
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and a tough read as I recall.
WSS
Not at all....as I recall. Did you read it, or was it on audiotape?
Not at all....as I recall. Did you read it, or was it on audiotape?
for a great many years everything have read has been unabridged audio.
I thought it was dull.
WSS
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Not at all....as I recall. Did you read it, or was it on audiotape?
for a great many years everything have read has been unabridged audio.
I thought it was dull.
WSS
for a great many years everything have read has been unabridged audio.
I thought it was dull.
WSS
It may have fallen down a bit on some points. But I thought it did a very good job at dwelling into the motivations of the young Jerry Seigel and his reasons for creating Superman. At a young age he had lost his dad who was a cop to a bullet, a mystery that I believe has never been solved.
In essence, he wanted to create a hero who would be essentially invulnerable to replace his dad.
I mean, Dude, it wasn't a Superman comic book.
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Tree of Smoke Denis Johnson
My favorite Vietnam novel
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Never heard of it, but looked it up. Might buy it and read it.
If you do (and I highly recommend you do) then you'll want to start with Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1 - 5) (Silo Saga)
Then move to Shift Omnibus Edition (Shift 1-3) (Wool Trilogy Book 2)
And finish with Dust (Wool Trilogy Book 3)
My fear is that a movie gets made and is butchered a la "John Carter of Mars"
:::edit::: Well look what I just found
Ridley Scott ( Prometheus) acquired the film rights..
If you do (and I highly recommend you do) then you'll want to start with Wool Omnibus Edition (Wool 1 - 5) (Silo Saga)
Then move to Shift Omnibus Edition (Shift 1-3) (Wool Trilogy Book 2)
And finish with Dust (Wool Trilogy Book 3)
My fear is that a movie gets made and is butchered a la "John Carter of Mars"
:::edit::: Well look what I just found
Ridley Scott ( Prometheus) acquired the film rights..
John Carter of Mars was awesome.. I thought Prometheus was boring and predictable.
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The long walk is a full length novel but otherwise I agree. He's got plenty of short stories that would work well
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It's been released since as it's own full length novel under kings own name. But yeah it was in the Bachman books
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Check out this list of the best selling books of all time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books
There are a few in there that I do not believe have been made into movies like The Catcher in the Rye.
Watership Down
Others that are best sellers are like self help books, not amenable to movie making.
Note though that some of the best selling books are also among the largest grossing movie franchises: specifically the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit and the Harry Potter books.
Personally, I never cared for the Catcher in the Rye.....and I assume that JD Salinger would never sell the movie rights. But now that he is gone, perhaps his estate will. I am not sure it is translatable to a movie, but I would be curious to see the effort.
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Watership Down has been made into an animated film. I loved the book! A catcher in the rye is tied up with Salinger's heirs who will not even allow it to be made into an audiobook.
unless something very recently changed.
WSS
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Watership Down has been made into an animated film. I loved the book! A catcher in the rye is tied up with Salinger's heirs who will not even allow it to be made into an audiobook.
unless something very recently changed.
WSS
Watership Down has been made into an animated film. I loved the book! A catcher in the rye is tied up with Salinger's heirs who will not even allow it to be made into an audiobook.
unless something very recently changed.
WSS
I figured that might be the case with the Rabbit book.
And with Salinger's book, the estate will eventually be settled, the the thing that will change, with them is probably:::$$$$$$$.
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"Lines in the sand" by Dick Draggin and "Wet Sheet" by I.P. Nighlty.
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They should make a tv series of stephen kings short stories. Grey matter, word processor of the gods, the long walk, survivor type, some of those stories are freaking brilliant
They should make a tv series of stephen kings short stories. Grey matter, word processor of the gods, the long walk, survivor type, some of those stories are freaking brilliant
The Jaunt. 'It's eternity in there'.
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The Jaunt. 'It's eternity in there'.
Oooh yeah...the kid stayed awake... Awesome!
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don't think "catcher" would work on the big screen
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Malazan Book of the Fallen series, it would not work as a movie, but could really work in a GoT type of series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malazan_Book_of_the_Fallen
The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, this would probably work as a trilogy since each story is connected but not to large extent as GoT or Malazan Book of the Fallen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chronicles_of_Thomas_Covenant
Wheel of time series may be the next series for me to check out...
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My fiction novel would make a great movie.
It will be finished this winter, while I recuperate from getting
a new bionic knee...unless I put it off one more year...
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I could only imagine the critical response cal. I don't know how the academy could ignore you
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