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Old 08-18-2004, 02:59 AM   #9 (permalink)
pan6467
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First, Journey... I respect your opinion but I loved the movie ".... Garp" I still think it was one of Robin williams' best if not his best. The book was good but like all Irving it was long and drawn out in spots.

Secondly.... best book to movie for me was F Scott Fitzerald's The Great Gatsby with Robert Redford as Gatsby..... very very few differences great acting and it brought one of the greatest most awesome books to life..... God I love that movie and book... (in the last 20 years, I have seen the movie 75 times and read the book 25+ can anyone say obsessed with it over the years.) A couple others tried to do the book to movie on it and they sucked. redford in my opinion was Gatsby..... "and so we beat on boats against the current borne ceaselessly into the past..."

Honorable mention:

Less Than Zero.... would have thought Bob Downey JR would have learnt something from that movie, the book tho was far better but the movie tried very hard to stick to the book

Finally book I am waiting for to become a movie..... I'd love to see Ray or Dave Davies' autobio's become a movie but won't happen. I'd really like to see Sula by Toni Morrison become a movie then I might understand the damn book (had to read it for English last semester and found it deathly boring, convoluted and I just had no understanding of it whatsoever..... but that aside it is a very good book if you like and can stomach that style.)

P.S. Best King book to movie ..... The Stand

His best short stories (novellas).... Green Mile and Stand By Me.
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