Even if the movie was not so good. Any good books adapted for the screen?
2007-08-15 03:49:24 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
101 Dalmations by Dodie Smith
Anna and the King of Siam by Margaret Landon
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Dances with Wolves by Michael Blake
The Dirty Dozen by E.M. Nathanson
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Exocist by William Peter Blatty
The First Wives Club by Olivia Goldsmith
Forest Gump by Winston Groom
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The General's Daughter by Nelson DeMille
Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper
The Lord of Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordoff
The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
Old Yeller by Fred Gipson
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
The Parent Trap by Erich Kastner
The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux
Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Roald Dahl wrote: James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, & Matilda
The list could go on & on...
2007-08-15 03:57:01 · answer #1 · answered by dnnzak 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Tim LaHye's novels were made into movies-the Left Behind Series, The Outsiders, The Lottery, Jane Eyre, Tale of Two Cities, Around the World In 80 Days...
2007-08-15 03:59:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Harry Potter
Tuck Everlasting
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Great Gatsby
The Devil's Arithmetic
Holes
T*Witches
I know What You Did Last Summer
2007-08-15 22:54:06 · answer #3 · answered by Alyssa 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay was made into a film of the same name in 1992 and starred a young Steven Dorff (Blade) and Morgan Freeman. It was a different take from the book, but the heart of the story remained the same.
Also made into movies:
The Lord of the Rings trilogy (very well done, if long)
The Harry Potter series
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
The Neverending Story (but I don't remember the author's name)
Stand by Me was a novella by Stephen King
Gone with the Wind (don't remember the author's name)
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Emma by Jane Austen
There's many, many more but I just can't remember them all
2007-08-15 03:52:53 · answer #4 · answered by COOLEY FAN!! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of Nicholas Sparks books made pretty good movies (but the books are better).
-Message in a Bottle
-A Walk to Remember
-The Notebook
The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans was good.
A couple of movies that were better than the books.
-Pay it Forward
-Dangerous Minds (or My Posse Don't Do Homework)
2007-08-15 04:09:11 · answer #5 · answered by Simba 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Books are always better than movies. Movies are someone else's interpretations and can never include all the detail of the book. Each reader brings his own reality and imagination in picturing the words. Books can span lifetimes, movies must reduce books to 2 hours....
2007-08-15 03:59:26 · answer #6 · answered by ... 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler.
The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Both the books and the movies are equally great.
2007-08-15 04:03:46 · answer #7 · answered by jonz4 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gone With The Wind
2007-08-15 04:10:10 · answer #8 · answered by danreads123 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Running With Scissors" was an amazing book! Very funny with wickedly dark humor. I don't think the big screen was able to capture that. And some of my fav parts were deleted for the movie.
2007-08-15 03:55:33 · answer #9 · answered by Sarah Says 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Clockwork Orange
Perfume
Captain Correli's Manolin [awful, awful film]
erm... Harry Potter?
2007-08-15 03:54:54 · answer #10 · answered by Phadria 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋