The Book/Movie Meme

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Jake
2 years, 2 months ago
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Well, well… I guess it’s meme time. (All the cool kids are doing it… Or something.)

Kottke posted a link to the Guardian’s list of 50 (51, actually) best film adaptations of books. Now folks are marking which they have read and/or seen.

I can dig it…

  1. 1984
  2. [M] Alice in Wonderland (Disney)
  3. [M] American Psycho
  4. [M] Breakfast at Tiffany’s
  5. Brighton Rock
  6. [M] Catch 22
  7. [M] Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (Both)
  8. [M] A Clockwork Orange
  9. Close Range (inc Brokeback Mountain)
  10. The Day of the Triffids
  11. Devil in a Blue Dress
  12. [M] Different Seasons (inc The Shawshank Redemption)
  13. [M] Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladerunner)
  14. Doctor Zhivago
  15. Empire of the Sun (I think I have seen bits of the film)
  16. The English Patient (The movie put me to sleep)
  17. [BM] Fight Club
  18. The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Seen parts of the movie)
  19. [M] Get Shorty
  20. [M] The Godfather
  21. [M] Goldfinger
  22. [M] Goodfellas
  23. [M] Heart of Darkness (aka Apocalypse Now) (Seems like I’ve read at least some of this)
  24. [M] The Hound of the Baskervilles (I also bet I’ve read this — I think I tore through Doyle’s collected works when I was young, but I can’t say for sure.)
  25. [M]Jaws
  26. [M]The Jungle Book
  27. A Kestrel for a Knave (aka Kes)
  28. [M] LA Confidential
  29. [M] Les Liaisons Dangereuses
  30. [BM] Lolita
  31. Lord of the Flies (Only seen part of the movie)
  32. [M]The Maltese Falcon
  33. [M]Oliver Twist
  34. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Seen parts of the movie, but not all. I own it though…)
  35. [M] Orlando
  36. [M] The Outsiders
  37. [M] Pride and Prejudice
  38. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  39. The Railway Children
  40. Rebecca
  41. The Remains of the Day (Seen parts of the movie)
  42. [M] Schindler’s Ark (aka Schindler’s List)
  43. [M] Sin City
  44. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
  45. [M] The Talented Mr Ripley
  46. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
  47. Through a Glass Darkly
  48. To Kill a Mockingbird
  49. [BM] Trainspotting
  50. The Vanishing
  51. [M] Watership Down

As with the others, I marked it if I’d seen any movie adaptation of the given title. I’m a little embarassed by only having three books checked off, but I will say they are three of my faves.

5 Responses to “The Book/Movie Meme”

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  1. 1 Broz
    2 years, 2 months ago.

    Lolita, eh? Fucking pederast.

  2. 2 Jake
    2 years, 2 months ago.

    I know I don’t need to remind you of your comments regarding the young women of the Israeli Army…

  3. 3 Broz
    2 years, 2 months ago.

    Check mate.

  4. 4 Jenn
    2 years, 2 months ago.

    I like to collect books that were made into movies, mostly the ones that people don’t realize were books first. I have only read 10 on that list though.

    Two surprises, for me: that Watership Down made it on there, it was an odd (though very good) book. The author also wrote a novel from the point of view of two dogs :-). Also, especially since this is from the UK, it is surprising that no E.M. Forster books made the list. The article mentions their absence but doesn’t say why. Those were all great books and movies, if you like that sort of period piece.

    How could you not have read Alice in Wonderland? Is that a girl thing? I read it several times, long before I was old enough to get any of the trippy subtext.

  5. 5 Jake
    2 years, 2 months ago.

    I just wasn’t much of a reader when I was young, so I think that caused me to miss a lot.
    I still want to read Alice, but I haven’t gotten around to it…

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