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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.