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In the history of film making people have found inspiration from loads of different sources. But when writers decide to adapt books they tend to achieve VERY varied degrees of success! As a passionate reader and moviegoer I’m going to write about my favourite book-to-movie adaptations and why I think they live up to the expectations of the average literate moviegoer.

Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – The first thing someone More »

The Lord of the Rings trilogy has got to be quite simply the best motion picture adaptation of all time.

I state this because, before going to see this film (or, more accurately, the first part of this film) I was, quite frankly, scared. Scared because I had read the book several times and had, in my mind, my own picture of what Middle Earth looked like, what Hobbits looked like and More »

How many people know about the book?

Yes,”The Princess Bride” has an actual book, not just the one shown in the movie, (although, that’s probably an actual copy of it) and More »

With so many outstanding works of literature written over the ages of time and many of them being made into movies it would be hard for many people to selectone to bear the label of best. I however have no trouble in recommending one. The one Iadvocateis one based on Classic British Literature. The original novel was written by a woman, who at the More »

Some of the ideal movies have come from adaptations of books.  The upcoming Brave New World being adapted for the screen is an example. Some of my favorite books are made into movies. Sometimes when they make adaptations from the books into movies, some of the most important aspects of the books are left out in the movie. When this happens, since you have read More »