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What are your favorite books made into movies? Thank you.

What are your favorite books made into movies? Thank you.

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Charles

For whom the bell tolls & I love that it’s almost word for word same as the book

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Angelina

The Magus. The Sharpe series the Jack Taylor series, if TV movies count. The Jane Austen Book Club. The Bone Collector. Kiss the Girls. Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Instinct (the book is actually called Ishmael). Cool Hand Luke.

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Amy

Deloris Clayborn and Misery

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Lisa

Bridges of Madison County

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John

Out of Africa, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

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Keith

I think Jack was miscast

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John

How’s that?

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Keith

@John he didn’t look like the Mc described in the book. I think peter Fonda would have been better

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Argel

Maze Runner (even though it’s quite different from each other), Hunger Games, Charlie And the chocolate factory which by far is the only film that is more better than the book (for me)

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Adrian

John Le Carre’s The Constant Gardener is amongst my faves

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Stacey

Anything Steven King….oh and Fifty Shades of Grey

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Charles

The Eagle Has Landed.

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Cheryl

A time to kill

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Michelle

A Fault in Our Stars

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Deborah

Dr. Zhivago, A Time To Kill, Exodus.

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Alex

Fight Club. I thought the movie was better than the book and I really enjoyed the book

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Michelle

Harry Potter; of Mice and Men; The Grapes of Wrath; Gone With the Wind; to name a few

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Charlotte

A Man Called Ove. The movie was better than the book!

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Jazmine

The Green Mile, Me Before You, Twilight series, The Secret Life of Bees, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ferdinand.

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Anna

Confess by Colleen Hoover. It’s not a movie, but a mini series.

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Amanda

Definitely Harry Potter. And, I liked Me Before You.

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Jeanne

Rita Hayworth and the shawshank redemption. Coraline.

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Cynthia

I know it wasn’t accurate to the books but The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Hobbit movies

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Jane

Harry Potter, Lord of the rings and the hobbit

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Natalie

The Hunger Games

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Sage

The Help and Memoirs of a Geisha.

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Mehreen

Jane Eyer

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Ann

The Green Mile,

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Amy

Movies
The great Gatsby, LOTR, HP. TV shows
Legend of the seeker, handmaids tale GOT

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Carita

Divergent I thought they did excellent job!

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Judith

Fried Green tomatoes, The Help, To Kill a Mockingbird

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Joanne

Harry Potter and Elf Stones of Shanarra

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Michele

The Green Mile

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Michele

Horns is also excellent

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Pinky

the Color purple and Flowers for algenon

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Catalina

Before I fall, Wonder, Everything everything,The girl on the train, If I stay, big little lies, my husband’s secret

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Maha

Gone With the Wind, Me Before you, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Oliver Twist, The Shawshank Redemption

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Sury

Guns of Navarone, Where Eagles Dare Ice Station Zebra, Bourne identity and, ah, The Count of Monte Cristie…

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Mariah

The Book Thief, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Fault In Our Stars, The Help, Pride & Prejudice, The Secret Life of Bees, Stardust

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Tara

The Greenmile

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Richard

To Kill a Mockingbird, Lord of the Rings, the Body (Stand By Me)

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Kim

The Shawshank Redemption, To Kill A Mockingbird, Stand By Me, The Green Mile, The Constant Gardener

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Kelly

Fight Club

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Philip

Goodbye Columbus, The Cider House Rules, Ordinary People.

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Shelly

The Help, Fried Green Tomatoes (although book and movie pretty different)

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Katie

I LOVED The Help! Was pleasantly surprised by how equally good the movie was, too

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Briana

LOVE Fried Green Tomatoes!!! <3

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Anindita

Fight Club, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, HP, LOTR, Shawshank Redemption, Sophie’s Choice, Carrie, The Godfather, Gone With the Wind, The Great Gatsby, The Apt Pupil

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Briana

The Green Mile, Gone With the Wind, Fried Green Tomatoes, and The Godfather

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Joan

Water for elephants. The Godfather

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