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Somebody earlier mentioned City, by Cliff Simak. I don't think this would work as a live action film, necessarily, but picture, if you will, a dog in spectacles speaking from behind a podium doing the set-up for each of the eight stories, while a robot stands next to him with a remote control cueing up animated versions of the stories (done by the folks who did Watership Down or by Gennedy Tartakovsky, or, better yet, eight different animators). The only problem is that so much of the book goes on in the head. How, for instance, are you going to get across Juwainian philosphy? I mean, Joe lays it out what it is, but it plays a fairly large part in "Hobbies", and I just don't know if it would come across as what it is, rather than just a diffident guy giving up on a woman. And there's lots of other things like that gong on.
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