So last week I started talking about movies. More specifically, the prevalence of sequels and remakes and “reimaginings” and the utter dearth of truly original movie content. That led me to a top ten list all about the worst book-to-movie translations I have seen. I promised that it wasn’t all gloom-and-doom though, and so I am now pleased to bring you today’s portion of the books-to-movies list game: books that were good as movies AND as books.

Woohoo, she said!

This is a much more enjoyable a list – although it was also, admittedly, a much more difficult one to come up with… When I stopped to think about it, I realized that there is a startlingly small number of book-to-movie deals that I’ve enjoyed. I usually have a rule – if it’s a book I like, I will intentionally NOT go to see it in a movie theater because I hate when you have a fantastic story in your head and then the movie version screws it all up. I have found it is difficult for me to even reread those books after, if the screwed up-ness was particularly offensive to my brain…
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