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ravenclawed...
What are the three books you'd like to see filmed (movie or mini-series)?
Also, what is the one book you love but know it would not make a good movie?
Ok, after a LOT of thought, because let's face it, I love my books and couldn't bear to see them butchered in any way...especially by Hollywood...here are the three I'd like to see filmed:
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card: In the future, we are fighting a war with the Formics, insect-like aliens (sounds WAY more hokey than it is), and Earth's leaders are trying selective breeding to get a genius military commander. 6-year-old Andrew "Ender" Wiggin may be that commander...
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke: To my surprise, they may actually be making a movie of this one also! Check out the blurb: "Two centuries from now, scientists detect a 10 trillion ton object, nicknamed "Rama," hurtling through Earth's solar system at an unfathomable speed. After deploying a space probe, our deepest fears and highest hopes are confirmed: Rama is an extra-terrestrial spacecraft. The Spaceship Endeavor commander (Morgan Freeman) leads a team of astronauts inside the foreign vessel and discover a self-contained world of alien wonders and unknown purpose."
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller: Surprisingly enough, in my searches I found this article, an essay about the contrast between this book and Starship Troopers as regards the value of individual life and its relationship with the state. Very interesting. Here's a good blurb on the book, since it has so much in it that it's nearly impossible to summarize:
Six hundred years after a nuclear holocaust, an abbey of Catholic monks survives during a new Dark Ages and preserves the little that remains of the world's scientific knowledge. The monks also seek evidence concerning the existence of Leibowitz, their alleged founder (who, the reader soon realizes, is a Jewish scientist who appears to have been part of the nuclear industrial complex of the 1960s). The second part fast-forwards another six hundred years, to the onset of a new Renaissance; a final section again skips yet another six hundred years, to the dawn of a second Space Age--complete, once again, with nuclear weapons.
Ok, and as far as a book I love that I would not like to see made into a movie, I'd have to go with Diane Duane's Young Wizards series, just because the...mystery...for lack of a better word, and the magic of the books would be deflated if they tried to adapt it to film.
ravenclawed...What are the three books you'd like to see filmed (movie or mini-series)?
Also, what is the one book you love but know it would not make a good movie?
Ok, after a LOT of thought, because let's face it, I love my books and couldn't bear to see them butchered in any way...especially by Hollywood...here are the three I'd like to see filmed:
Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card: In the future, we are fighting a war with the Formics, insect-like aliens (sounds WAY more hokey than it is), and Earth's leaders are trying selective breeding to get a genius military commander. 6-year-old Andrew "Ender" Wiggin may be that commander...
Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke: To my surprise, they may actually be making a movie of this one also! Check out the blurb: "Two centuries from now, scientists detect a 10 trillion ton object, nicknamed "Rama," hurtling through Earth's solar system at an unfathomable speed. After deploying a space probe, our deepest fears and highest hopes are confirmed: Rama is an extra-terrestrial spacecraft. The Spaceship Endeavor commander (Morgan Freeman) leads a team of astronauts inside the foreign vessel and discover a self-contained world of alien wonders and unknown purpose."
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller: Surprisingly enough, in my searches I found this article, an essay about the contrast between this book and Starship Troopers as regards the value of individual life and its relationship with the state. Very interesting. Here's a good blurb on the book, since it has so much in it that it's nearly impossible to summarize:
Six hundred years after a nuclear holocaust, an abbey of Catholic monks survives during a new Dark Ages and preserves the little that remains of the world's scientific knowledge. The monks also seek evidence concerning the existence of Leibowitz, their alleged founder (who, the reader soon realizes, is a Jewish scientist who appears to have been part of the nuclear industrial complex of the 1960s). The second part fast-forwards another six hundred years, to the onset of a new Renaissance; a final section again skips yet another six hundred years, to the dawn of a second Space Age--complete, once again, with nuclear weapons.
Ok, and as far as a book I love that I would not like to see made into a movie, I'd have to go with Diane Duane's Young Wizards series, just because the...mystery...for lack of a better word, and the magic of the books would be deflated if they tried to adapt it to film.
