What are some books that you think would make good movies/series?
Books that I think would make interesting films:
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Malla Nunn’s A Beautiful Place to Lie,* Let the Dead Lie*,* Blessed Are the Dead*, and *Present Darkness *– This is a series of mystery novels set in 1950s apartheid South Africa. I find it interesting that it incorporates and examines various elements of society during this period in time into the plot without being condescending or preachy.
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Orhan Pamuk’s Snow and The Museum of Innocence – While Pamuk’s writing style quite irritated me in both of these, the plots were interesting in that they present complex characters and explore various issues and facets of life in contemporary Turkey.
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Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns – I quite like this novel and think it would make an interesting film. At the same time though, I’m not so sure it could be faithful adapted as there are various elements in the plot that are rather unpalatable to western audiences and would likely be changed. I also doubt people would be too keen on the ending as people tend to like happy endings.
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How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. The plot is part The Great Gatsby, part Bollywood style fantasy and love story. Throw in the sounds and colors of South Asia, it would make for a visually appealing movie. The novel is quite short though but so too was Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, *which for all its merits I found a little depressing in nature but it was was nevertheless adapted into a critically acclaimed movie. *How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia has a more uplifting feel to it and a talented director should be able to make an engaging movie out of it.
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Come to think of it, I think Mohammed Hanif's A Case of Exploding Mangoes would making an interesting film, in a dark humour sort of way.
Re: Books that would make good movies
How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia. The plot is part The Great Gatsby, part Bollywood style fantasy and love story. Throw in the sounds and colors of South Asia, it would make for a visually appealing movie. The novel is quite short though but so too was Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, *which for all its merits I found a little depressing in nature but it was was nevertheless adapted into a critically acclaimed movie. *How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia has a more uplifting feel to it and a talented director should be able to make an engaging movie out of it.
Okay, I did not like that book. I read his earlier work, Moth Flame, and liked it. But I couldn't get through this one. I felt like the author was trying too hard (with the use of profanity and graphic imagery) to sound cool amd appeal to the Western audience.
Re: Books that would make good movies
Jhumpa Lahiri's The Interpreter of Maladies. It contains different stories and I like movies that are presented in this way.
Young Adult Novels: Jacob Have I Loved, The Giver, Catherine Called Birdie