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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Your picks of Books for Cinema adaptation

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neal Hurtson
The Nightside Series by Simon R. Green

Nice pick on the Dark Tower Series Khristian
 
Without a doubt... "The Journey is the Destination: The Journals of Dan Eldon"

Though I understand that this one is a go with Daniel Radcliffe as Dan Eldon, that is if they can fit it into his schedule. Here is a link to a decent article-http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1578869/20080102/story.jhtml

I wish I had the juice to make this happen, if there was ever a film that needed to be done well this is the one. Both his mother and his sister will make sure though that this happens... I truly wish them all the best.

Dan Eldon is certainly one of my inspirations.

Cheers.
 
My two favourite novels of the past 15 years (read each of them at least 6x):

Umberto Eco: Il pendolo di Foucault
Lawrence Norfolk: Lempriere's Dictionary.

Norfolk's book is probably the most gorgeous piece of literature I read so far. Though it really has an intriguing story, it will be hard to match how this whole little universe swapping between the founding of the East Indian Company (1600) and the French Revolution (1789) is depicted.

Eco's book instead is for sure the wittiest text I ever encountered. It is a story that litterally shows you how story-telling works... 3 guys in their boredom invent the "great plan" that shows how history is a mega-conspiracy - a fun that turns lethal when some esoterics start to believe in that plan... It's a masterpiece by Eco playing with our notions of fiction and non-fiction.

Beside that, all kind of Scandinavian crime stories...

Best,
Fritz
 
I would have said Dark Tower, but only if we can start from scratch on 5-7, and go back to the original text with Gunslinger. Really, the best thing would be to winnow it down to a solid trilogy a la LOTR, cutting all the stuff that doesn't have to do with the search for the Tower, and all the self-referential metafiction stuff (I mainly mean the King-as-character stuff; I have a concept of how all the homages/thefts to pop culture icons can be made to work). Loved the crap out of the first three books, liked the fourth well enough, but the last three took a turn and lost me, hard as I tried to love them too.

When these lists come up, Snow Crash always puts in an appearance. I read it and I totally wouldn't be interested -- again, unless some heavy re-structuring were to take place. There's three good stories in there all getting in each others' way and one of them needs to be focused on.

I'd take a stab at American Gods (only if Gaiman did the adaptation), Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell could be a lot of fun, and I'd really love to get on board either Zombie Survival Guide or World War Z.

There's actually a few other, more obscure literary works I'm hoping to option, but their obscurity actually puts them feasibly within my grasp, so I don't want to tip my hand and lose my shot. :)
 
my picks

my picks

Fiction
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov
Anything by John le Carre
ditto with Micky Spillane - LOL
Docs
King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion by Steven Coll
 
Well, the Elric movie is in Preproduction...so that's one.

I'd love to see George RR Martin's Song of Fire and Ice

Across the Nightingale Floor

The Mote in God's Eye
 
Chaos Films said:
Well, the Elric movie is in Preproduction...so that's one.

I'd love to see George RR Martin's Song of Fire and Ice

Across the Nightingale Floor

The Mote in God's Eye
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man i just went back through and saw you'd beaten me to it that's wicked ....great minds hey
 
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