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Best Movie Adaptation of a Book.

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Christa

Trainspotting. Also partial to Apocalypse Now.

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Mansoor

The unbearable lightness of being by Milan Kundera was even better in the movie

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Howard

Black Hawk Down

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Eric

The Godfather

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Mary

Brooklyn. The Book Thief. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.

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Sue

Gone with the Wind”

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Naomi

Sophie’s Choice

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Lisa

Certainly NOT, Gone with the wind

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Nancy

They leave out an entire child in the movie. I read the book first and was soooo excited to see the movie. Not impressed!

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Lisa

Scarlett was so much more. Melony and her were a great team.

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Nancy

@Lisa I guess the movie was so long that they didn’t have time to develop the characters. They also didn’t show how hard Scarlett worked for her company.

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Sergio

The Remains of the Day.

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Janet

@Nancy They left out two children!

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Susan

It’s still a good movie.

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Nancy

Oh, my. I may have to go back and read the book again ? I’ve read it twice, but obviously I have forgotten a few things.

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Sue

I thought GWTW was a perfect movie & also the book – have read this book & watched this movie more than any others!

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Mary

Da Vinci code

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Lacey

A River Runs Through It and Silence of the Lambs

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Shawn

No Country For Old Men

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Nancy

Hacksaw Ridge.

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Jenna

Jurassic Park

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Shana

Misery

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Janie

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Marilee

A Beautiful MInd

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Kristi

True Grit.

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Georgina

Shawshank Redemption.

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Bethany

This ☝?

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Jonathan

The Lord of the Rings trilogy was spectacular, and remained pretty faithful to the books.

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Rae

Bridget Jones Diary

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Tami

Deer Hunter.

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Deborah

Gone With the Wind

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Maria

Name of the rose

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Tara

Love,Simon

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Emily

The Exorcist

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Angela

The Kite Runner

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Maxine

Tess of the D’ Urbervilles

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Steve

Dr. Zhivago

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Linda

The Help. It followed the book almost exactly. Both the book and the movie were GREAT. That hardly ever happens.

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Karen

I agree!

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Paula

Agree with this 100%

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Olga

The Thornbirds

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Rebecca

The English Patient

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Lexie

Lonesome dove

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Beth

Lord of the Rings trilogy

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Paul

thought the film was a “Fair” a good go at it ….. too many Stunt/ pseudo Irish accents for me ….needed a bit more shake -n – spear less muck n muscles . there is a BBC radio show adaptation from the seventies which is extremely good

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Betsy

A MAN CALLED OVE. Film is quite true to the book.

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Sarah

Atonement

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Katie

@Sarah I agree! I thought they did such a great job with the movie!

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Paul

The Godfather

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Barbara

Housekeeping

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Jo

NOT girl on the train or lovely bones or fault within our stars !

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Michelle

Outlander

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Marian

Brooklyn

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Karen

To Kill A Mockingbird

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Tina

English patient

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Carol

Big Little Lies

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Robin

Time Traveler’s Wife and Remains of the Day. RotD is pretty much right on, word for word with the book

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Angi

The Help

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Carol

Lonesome Dove although it was a miniseries.

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Lisa

I really liked Under The Tuscan Sun movie a lot, there book just didn’t hold my interest.

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Ellen

The Color Purple.

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Marilina

Sense and Sensibility

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Sharyn

The book thief

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KC

Brokeback Mountain

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Bonnie

The Bridges of Madison county

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Mickie

The Help

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Bonnie

Winds of war and War and remembrance by Herman Wouk , great books and a great mini series.

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Linda

I agree.

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Still

Of Mice and Men

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Vickie

Water for Elephants

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Amanda

Shutter island
Davinci code
Angels and demons

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Vishy

The Godfather, To Kill a Mockingbird, Sense and Sensibility, The Remains of the Day, The Jane Austen Book Club, The Shining, The Age of Innocence.

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Rhonda

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Lori

Jaws

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Karen

A Man Called Ove

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Corey

wonder boys, my opinion is better than the book

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Bonnie

Hunt for Red October

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Ellen

Princess Bride

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Nina

Harry Potter

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Trista

About A boy. I read that book when i was only like 11 and then they did a movie and i loved both! And book thief.

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Anne

Lonesome Dove

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Miriam

Wonder ❤

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Erin

The Bridges of Madison County

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Michelle

The book thief

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Bréanainn

Rear Window, a film which is much more profound and subtle than its source material.

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JoAnn

I’m a little surprised at the several responses of To Kill A Mockingbird. The movie did a great job portraying a small amount, maybe only one-fourth of the story.

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Bonnie

Same with Harry Potter. There are a lot more characters, plots and depth in the books than the movies. Although the movies were great!

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Dawn

I’m starting to wonder whether those saying LOTR have even read the books? ???

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Katherine

I have read the books. I like the movies better. ? That’s not to say that JRR Tolkien wasn’t a great writer. He just got excited about things that I don’t get excited about. The movies cut all of that out.

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Dawn

Blasphemy. 🙂

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Jennifer

@Katherine, I agree!

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Cas

TKAM was my favorite so far.

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Mary

The Godfather

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Nettie

Delores Clairborne by Stephen King, I thought was well done. And Misery by SK also.

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Tammie

The green mile or sleepers

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Will

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

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Sheena

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

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Jamie

Little Children and Revolutionary Road

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Aaron

The Princess Bride.
Last of the Mohicans.
The Odd Angry Shot.
The Lord Of The Rings.
Sideways.

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Jean

My family and I absolutely love The Princess Bride!

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Aaron

Best movie ever.
I love it.

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William

The Color Purple

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Ashley

Harry Potter

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Marcy

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.

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William

Looking forward to this book.

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Deb

Hunger Games

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Deb

Also To Kill a Mockingbird

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Molly

@Deb I was waiting, lol

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Deb

@Molly ha ha

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Deb

But I do think hunger games was very true to the book

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Molly

@Deb I never read the book.

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Deb

@Molly I recommend all 3 and then watch the movies

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Jennifer

This was going to be my addition to the list. One of my favorite book to movie adaptations.

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Deb

@Jennifer mine too. The Capital was exactly how I imagined it in the movie

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Jennifer

The casting was so spot on, too. Jennifer Lawrence is amazing!

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Deb

@Jennifer they couldn’t have picked a better Katniss

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Jennifer

Agreed!

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Aaron

The Buddha of Suburbia.

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Aaron

The Wild Geese!

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Kelly

Julie and Julia!

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Robin

Leslie Thompson, you sure got us ‘talking’! Well done! Also, the 2016 BBC version of And Then There Were None, and the more recent Murder on the Orient Express were pretty much bang on. Agatha Christie would have been proud.

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Karen

Agreed @Sheena! The Boy in the Striped Pajamas!

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Marlene

The Godfather. Book was good, movie was legendary.

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Aaron

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

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Elizabeth

Twilight.

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Amy

The Thornbirds

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Shea

I find I am usually satisfied whenever the author of the book also writes the screenplay. If anyone is allowed to take liberties with the story they are.

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Jess

Love simon

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Cherie

Dr. Zhivago.

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Alysia

The Life of Pi

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Nikhaylah

Lolita

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Nikhaylah

Girl Interrupted

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Annette

Harry Potter movies

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Mehnaz

That is so wrong :/

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Catherine

Disagree.

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Viral

A man called Ove

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Catherine

It’s a movie?!? I didn’t know! Thanks!!

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Viral

@Catherine it’s in swedish but has English subtitles and is amazing

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Catherine

@Viral I don’t mind subtitles. Thank so much! The book was very good!

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Viral

@Catherine agree, one of my all time favourites as a book and the movie.

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Jean

@Viral Agree – it’s very true to the book, a wonderful movie, exactly the way I imagined Ove. My husband liked the movie, too.

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Jeni

Stardust

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Jeni

I hate the book. Love the movie lol

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Marize

Seconded!

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Jeni

Yes!!!

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Suzette

Me before you was also not bad

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Cathy

Gone with the Wind

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Kimberly

Practical Magic

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Komet

DAY OF THE JACKAL (1973)

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Alun

2001: A Space Odyssey.

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Catherine

The Outsiders and Angela’s Ashes

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Ellen

The Outsiders is one of my favorite books – I thought the movie was awful.

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Catherine

@Ellen oh no! I thought it was done well! Different strokes for different folks I suppose:)

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Jean

Love Angela’s Ashes

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Christine

Interview with the vampire, all of the hunger games, and all of the harry potters

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AShok

Shawshank redemption.

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Nancy

The Help

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Cathie

Misery

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Debbie

Have to agree!

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Catherine

I found the movie better than the book even ??

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Cathie

@Catherine I did too!

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Jennifer

Princess bride

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Jean

Can’t dislike that movie – that would be inconceivable!

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Nevie

I actually thought they did a really good job adapting the Hunger Games, specifically the first book.

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Cheryl

well, the original Dune, IF you had read the book. I really don’t watch a lot of movies, but I’ll always stop and watch Dune and The Princess Bride

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Steve

We may be in the minority on Dune; I loved it but the critics & most movie goers hated it. But, yea! There is a new Dune in the works!!!

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Cheryl

@Steve hmm may have to set that. Mind you, when I reread Dune a year ago, I didn’t enjoy

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Steve

@Cheryl, i re-read Dune about a year ago and enjoyed it immensely. But, I often Re-read my favorites.

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Jean

The Princess Bride is one of those movies you can watch over and over again.

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Cheryl

@Jean and over and over. Much to the dismay of certain family members

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Jean

@Cheryl Fortunately,my whole family likes it, so we are spared any family angst.

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Itingzai

Still Alice!

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Lori

Follow!

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Marci

The Help

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Maureen

The Mayor of Casterbridge.

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Laurelee

Harry Potter!

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Danielle

Stand by Me (based on Stephen King’s novella The Body.)

One of my favourite movies.

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Nevie

@Danielle I haven’t read The Body but boy do I love that movie ❤❤❤

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Cecilia

@Danielle loved the movie, never read the book but now I just may ?

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Lisa

Bridget Jones- those movies completely got me through my early 30s

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Danielle

I agree. I personally enjoyed the movie more than the book.

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Lisa

I never read the 3rd one but loved the movie even though it was completely different.

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Danielle

@Lisa I’ve only read the first one. It just didn’t really keep my attention but the movie is one of my favourites. I have to watch it every Christmas.

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Stacy

Fight Club

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Vicky

Cloud Atlas, loved it! X

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Tiffany

Not a movie. But i just watched the haunting of hill house on Netflix as it’s amazing. It isn’t exactly like the book but the way they adapted it is just phenomenal! One of my favorite books!

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Jean

I love that book and the 1963 adaptation The Haunting with Julie Harris. If you haven’t seen it, you should. It’s true to the book.

I was worried about the Netflix series, afraid they would ruin it, but I just finished Episode 3 and I like it. Setting it in a later time but having the family experience some of the same things the original characters did makes it fun. I also like the way they weave in some characters and quotes from the book.

I found some scenes deliciously scary!

My only complaint is that there is a bit too much shifting about in time. I don’t mind flashbacks, etc., but if it’s overdone it makes the thread of the story challenging to follow.

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Barbara

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Steve

A triple 5-stars from me!

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Nancy

Practical magic, the help

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Sally

The light between oceans

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Karen

Not sure about best…but I really enjoyed the guernsey literary and potato peel pie society:)

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Maria

To Kill a Mockingbird

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Jeri

A Simple Plan by Scott Smith. He wrote the screenplay and won an Oscar for best adapted screenplay. Terrific book and great movie.
And the mini series Lonesome Dove. Both wonderful.

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Maureen

I’m curious!

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Jeri

@Maureen both memorable in either form!

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Maureen

@Jeri is there swearing or taking the Lords name in vain? Thanks!

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Jeri

@Maureen, A Simple Plan is about murders so can’t remember exactly if there’s swearing. Lonesome Dove is a Western so probably. Saw both long ago so not sure.

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Maureen

@Jeri thank you. ?

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Jeri

Maureen Anderson get a sample of each book from Kindle. Might give you a better idea.

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Maureen

@Jeri that’s a good idea

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Marnia

series, not movie, but loving The Expanse (only season 3, but i’ve read all 7 books and am awaiting #8) ?

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Janet

Mystic River was very good. So was Rosemary’s Baby

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Amber

YES! I was going to say Mystic River.

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Janet

I haven’t read it. Have you?

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Amber

Oh my love. Yes read it. I read it after I saw the movie. Both equally entertaining and heartbreaking. It’s pretty much on point too, they didnt change much for the movie.

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Cecilia

@Janet loved the book Mystic River and the movie!

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Jean

Rosemary’s Baby was excellent.

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Janet

Yes! So faithful to the novel.

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Janet

Jean Wierzbinski Did you find a good, spooky book for October?

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Elizabeth

The Color Purple.

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Nancy

@Elizabeth loved that too

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Amber

The Green Mile.

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Nancy

@Amber oh yes

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Josy

Dances with Wolves.

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Steve

Super movie.

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Josy

@Steve , I do love it! And the book was great too!

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Déa

Big little lies by Liane Moriarty

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Jane

That was odd being American when the book is Australian

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Déa

@Jane That’s true, but I was as touched by the series as I was by the book. I truly loved it.

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Katt

@Déa hi! I didn’t know you were on here

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Déa

You invited me ?

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Katt

@Déa brain like a teabag ??

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Bobby

Lord of the Rings and To Kill A Mockingbird.

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Gecko

Love, Simon the minor things they changed were ok and dare I say Jack Reacher. The first movie (haven’t seen the second one yet) was so good.

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Teresa

84 Charring Cross Road

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Justine

I thought Secret Life of Bees was well done.

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Rosalie

Sophie’s Choice

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Janet

Really love that movie but I thought Stingo was miscast.

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Maureen

The Help

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Lori

Me before you, Out of Africa, English Patient, Gone with the Wind, Lord of the Rings

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Deirdre

The shining

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Carm

Lonesome Dove

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Ashley

F

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Beverly

Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

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Marize

Timeline

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Janet

Winter’s Bone

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Barb

Book Thief

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Sheryl

Room – book by Emma Donahue

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Sara

Charlie Wilson’s War

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Amy

The Fellowship of the Ring?

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Andrew

About Schmidt and Sideways

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Sue

@Andrew About Schmidt is one of my all time favorite movies! I have a theatre poster of Jack Nicholson for this movie which I had framed!

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Andrew

The book is very different from the movie.

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Sue

@Andrew I have not read the book…

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Andrew

It is so different from the movie that I would not have recognized the movie was based on the book. The movie is much better, I think.

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Andrew

Sideways is clearly the same story. But the movie is much better. So the book is not always better than the movie, just most times.

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Sue

@Andrew this is true. I have not read Sideways either, but I could not imagine the book being better than the movie About Schmidt. I rarely read the book after the movie –usually, the other way round.

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Heather

LOTR trilogy.

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Kathleen

Harry Potter

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Angelica

LOTR

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Cecilia

The Help, The Lovely Bones, The Secret Life of Bees, Water For Elephants

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Kelly

The Stand… Stephen King

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Terra

A Clockwork Orange

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Bryanna

The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series – Swedish version

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Marnia

yes! fantastic.

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Anem

Lotr

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Anem

The help, lovely bones

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Sheila

Practical Magic. The movie is much better than the book!

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Peg

Contact.

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Karen

A Man Called Ove and the Help

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Karen

Oh,and The Secret Life of Bees

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Donna

Godfather!

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Sherry

I thought the Harry Potter movies were amazing.

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Déa

@Sherry me top! Love the books and the films

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Mindy

Princess Bride

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Donna

Atonement, Da Vinci Code, The Godfather, The Shining, Into the Wild

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Sue

Gone With The Wind

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Brionee

@Haidee

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Gaurav

Lord of the rings. Martian

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Maurice

The Constant Gardener.

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Hannah

Count of Monte Cristo

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Manogna

The perks of being a wall flower

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Ellie

@Manogna I just finished this book last week, will have to check out the movie

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Manogna

@Ellie , the film is directed by the author of the book. So it stays true to the book. And the casting is perfect.

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Ellie

@Manogna Awesome, thanks!

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Zephrum

IT

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Sami

Sorry if I already answered: To Kill A Mockingbird, A Time to Kill, A Monster Calls, and The Bad Seed

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Leslie

Jaws. Better than the book !

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Claire

I agree ?

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Jean

In the sprit of the season, The Exorcist.

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Jaye

To Kill A Mockingbird

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Jaye

Dr. Zhivago

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Brooke

Notebook

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Renee

Lord of the Rings.

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Rochelle

A Clockwork Orange

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Louise

That Darn Cat (1965) is pretty good.

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Mercedes

I’m going way back here… The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.

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Bonnie

East of Eden by Steinbeck

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Anuradha

To Kill a Mockingbird, Shawshank Redemption.

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Elle

Atonement

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Jennifer

Chocolat by Joanne Harris. Loved the book and movie

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Nancy

@Jennifer oh yes. This is great

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Nancy

I love being reminded of all these books and movies

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Ray

The Great Gatsby

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Ellie

The Green mile

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Sami

For me, Stephen King is kind of like Shakespeare, better seen than read.

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John

A cavemans valentine … the notebook … do not read “the notebook ” it’s shite

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Dee

LOTR

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Audrey

I agree Peter Jackson did a phenomenal job

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Viktoria

Winter’s bone and The Martian

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Jeri

Winter’s Bone was amazing but so hard to watch! Really liked The Martian.

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Janet

Winter’s Bone the novel was very good as well. I like Daniel Woodrell.

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Erin

A Simple Favor

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Kathy

I really liked The Book Thief

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