Books that would make good movies

[Joy]

We have all read a book and thought--That would make a great movie. Tell us what book you have read that you would like to see made into a movie (assuming that the movie will stay true to the book).
I will start with Janet Evanovich's Plum series of books. Evanovich has a talent for creating great characters that I think would translate very well to the movie screen. I think some studio does own the rights to her first Plum book (One For The Money), but doesn't seem too interested in actually making a movie.

[debknechtel]

Joy I have always thought her books would be a great movie or even better a tv sitcom!!! I can see it now...boy would I be laughing the whole time!!!


hugs debbie

[megrayau]

This will be a fun topic to watch. The travel book I read recently, Absolutely Faking It would be great. Two people on backpacker budgets staying in (won as a prize) Leading Hotels of the World.

[jjoj]

Anything written by Karen Kingsbury. I love her books! Actually, I think some of them are being made into movies.

[osaka]

Prey by Michael Chricton would be good. And Cathouse by Dean Ing would be good too. I think I'll read that agan when I get some more time.

[Joy]

Sounds like some really good ideas for movies.
Meg, the book you mentioned sounds really good.
jjoj, Karen Kingsbury books would be great movies. You would probably need a supply of kleenex handy to watch them though.
osaka, Micheal Chricton books make great movies too. I haven't read anything by Dean Ing. I will have to check that out.

Who else has a good book they think would make a good movie?

[ewriggs]

Yeah - but the "rub" is being sure the movie is "true" to the book!! Look at the liberties taken with the Bond movies. Awful!

I always thought the Rex Stout series about Nero Wolfe would be great. Timothy Hutton did a great job with the TV series - stayed true to the books - and we were absolutely **devastated** when A&E discontinued it! We bought the entire set of DVDs and watch them all over again about 6 times a year! Love 'em!

Lillian Braun's "The Cat Who..." series is another one that would be good. And why hasn't anyone made the entire 26 story Tarzan series into movies - that were true to Burroughs' original concepts?? and what about the rest of the Thomas Clancy "Jack Ryan" series?
Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta series?
Diane Mott Davidson's "Catering" series?
Dorothy Gilman's "Mrs Pollifax" series?

Now that we have all the incredible computer-generated graphics and stuff, there are lots of more fantastic books that would be good to make movies of. Things like
Robert Aspirin's M.Y.T.H series
Jean Auel's Earth's Children series
Glen Cook's "Metal" series
Phillip Jose Farmer's "River world" series?
Raymond Feist's "Riftwar Series" and the "Daughter of the Empire" series?
Alan Dean Foster's "Pip and Flinx" novels?
Randall Garrett and Vickie Heydron's "Gandalara Cycle?"
W. Michael Gear's "Way of Spider" series?

Obviously I could go on and on and on.

Cheerio!
Elizabeth

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[jjoj]

Elizabeth, I love your signature saying!
Joy, oh, so true! I just finished Karen Kingsbury's Ever After. It has to be her most emotional one yet. I hardly EVER get emotional over a movie or a book, and I bawled through the whole last half. Even so, it was one of the best books I've read. lol

[Ctawna]

I really like to read Maeve Binchy's books and she did have one made into a movie, Circle of Friends. The other books that would be excellent for movies are: Nights of Rain and Stars, Evening Class, Tara Road, Scarlet Feather, Quentins. In the last 4 books the various character show up, at some point, in pretty much all the books. It would make a great series of movies. She really gets into the Irish way of life, lots of details and the characters seem to come to life.
Also Nicholas Evans book "The Loop" it is about wolves and the controversy between the cattlemen and the environmental people, and of course there is a love interest in it too. He also wrote "The Horse Whisperer".
Anyway that is it for now.

ctawna (aka colleen)

[Sammi1961]

I think The Mercy of Thin Air by Ronlyn Domingue or The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls would make great movies as well as books by James Lee Burke - all detective novels set in Louisanna.