Saturday, November 28, 2009

Help! Each book I read keeps getting made into a movie!!

So, I have actually been fitting in a bit of reading lately.


A disturbing trend is emerging - I read a book... come across it by chance or because someone gives it to me or lends it to me. Then it gets made into a movie, or I find out that a movie has already been made. For example:


- The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrey Niffeneger) - an entertaining read. At first I thought it was going to be a bit of a Benjamin Button story, but it is better. Movie release imminent, but I'm not really interested in seeing this - don't think it will add to my reading experience.


- A Most Wanted Man (John le Carre) - spy thrillers ain't what they used to be. Just isn't the same now the main character isn't slipping under the Berlin Wall to conduct their espionage. Not a movie - but I'm sure it will be soon.


- The Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold) - An interesting book, on how a family and community copes with time after a girl is murdered. Being made into a book by Peter Jackson, who will make sure the looking down from heaven bits aren't all harmonicas and angel wings. Would be interested in seeing this film.

- Let the right one in (John Ajvide Lindqvist) - Vampires in the 'burbs of '80's Stockholm. Apparenty this is already a film, but I never heard of it when it came out. May rent this one out. Not sure how they handled the gruesome bits, and if they did them graphically, I'm not sure I want to see it!!


And lined up next...

- The Road (Cormac McCarthy)


And... on the TV the other night - Slaughterhouse 5 (I'm still yet to get my hands on a copy of this to read, but want to...) and Farenheit 451.