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14 May 2012, 12:30 am

My choices are:

A Wrinkle in Time (that crappy, made-for-TV movie from 2003 doesn't count).
The Giver
Locked in Time
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Warrior Cats
The "Wheel of Time" series

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14 May 2012, 12:44 am

It's not exactly a book, but I think the lethal hauntings at 50 Berkeley Square in London deserve their own movie.

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14 May 2012, 9:50 am

Micheal Crichton's "Next"
Plague Dogs (a live action version)
We3
The Speed of Dark
The Yellow Wallpaper

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14 May 2012, 3:13 pm

Definitely Warriors (cats).
Also, The Poisonwood Bible.

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14 May 2012, 6:43 pm

I always thought "Glue" by Irvine Welsh is his best book and would make a great film or better still a four part tv series.

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14 May 2012, 6:51 pm

Yamato: A Rage in Heaven.

That is, it should have been made into a movie with a laughable budget in the 1980s so it could have been heckled on MST3k by Joel/Mike and the bots.

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15 May 2012, 12:26 am

roygerdodger wrote:

My choices are:

A Wrinkle in Time (that crappy, made-for-TV movie from 2003 doesn't count).

VERY STRONGLY AGREE!

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15 May 2012, 12:37 am

roygerdodger wrote:

My choices are:

A Wrinkle in Time (that crappy, made-for-TV movie from 2003 doesn't count).
The Giver
Locked in Time
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Warrior Cats
The "Wheel of Time" series

The Giver....YESSSS!

That would be awesome! It makes me want to read it again. Thanks!

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15 May 2012, 3:05 pm

Very few of the best books can be made into movies. Dune is a perfect example of this. This is why there's still a market for books—more than 120 years after the first moving pictures.

(And yes, I'm well aware of LotR, but a lot of changes were made for it to translate well into a movie.)

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15 May 2012, 10:09 pm

MagicMeerkat wrote:

Micheal Crichton's "Next"
Plague Dogs (a live action version)
We3
The Speed of Dark
The Yellow Wallpaper

We3 would be awesome!

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15 May 2012, 10:14 pm

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17 May 2012, 4:30 am

Dunno about a movie, but a TV series based on Transmetropolitan would be excellent.

A lot of the denser, more lengthy books would be better as TV series or miniseries. Game of Thrones and the Sci-Fi Channel version of Dune and the first two sequels are a case in point.

I'd also like to see a version of Solaris done like Stanislaw Lem would have wanted, ie, with an emphasis on the ridiculous nature of anthropocentrism rather than the 'terrible love story'.

Oh, here we go. Here's some books or book series that I'd want to see done either as movies or as miniseries (I'll mark them down as 'M' for movie, or 'TV' for a series or miniseries):

The Artemis Fowl books (M)

The Vorkosigan Saga (TV)

Wild Cards (TV)

The Count of Monte Cristo (TV) (Yes, I know that there's a French language miniseries, but I'm talking an English language version that does justice to the original novel)

The Dark Tower (TV)

Monster (TV)

The Rifters trilogy (TV)

Neuromancer (M)

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17 May 2012, 12:35 pm

I think someone should have the balls to do the Foundation series by Isaac Asimov

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17 May 2012, 11:09 pm

The Dark Tower series, by Stephen King!! !!

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18 May 2012, 8:38 pm

American Tabloid by James Elroy.

At the Mountains Of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft.

Fat White Vampire Blues by Andrew Fox.

Bride Of The Fat White Vampire also by Andrew Fox.

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18 May 2012, 8:44 pm

The White Mountains trilogy (if it hasn't been yet).................it's a really old childrens sci-fi series that I'm reading now....so good!

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