I'm reading, the first Harry Bosch book, The Black Echo.
Between Saving Private Ryan, Interstellar, and the Martian, Hollywood has spent a lot of money rescuing Matt DamonJust saw The Martian. Excellent freakin' movie! Definitely excited to read it now!
I'm also continuing C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner series. I'm on book 6, Explorer (end of the second sequence) and have book 7, Destroyer (beginning of the third sequence) ready to go as soon as that one's finished.
The problem here so that the movie is almost exactly like the book. It's almost a straight adaptation.
That's great! I want to read it and then see the movie. I really like when the movie follows as closely as possible (if it's done well) it's like you get to see what you imagined while reading come to life.
Agreed, absolutely nothing wrong with a movie with Diane Lane AND Sandra Oh, I have no idea what the movie was about, I just watched the 2 of them!But the movie has Diane Lane. I can forgive almost anything to watch her. Reading the complete Sherlock Holmes right now.
I'll agree with the Lord of the Rings being pretty well done. Apparently Life of Pi was well adapted. I saw the movie but never read the book but I definitely sensed a "literary" feel to the movie.The only movies that have done that for me were Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings. I've read the books countless times in the past and there were so many scenes that were just perfectly the way I had envisioned them. (Very not so with the Hobbit movies.)
The worst adaptation that comes to mind was "Under the Tuscan Sun" which turned a fantastic book about life in rural Italy (rehabbing an ancient villa, gardening, cooking, making olive oil, dealing with the locals) into a dreadful Hollywood love story. I highly recommend the book and wouldn't wish the movie on my enemies.
I'll agree with the Lord of the Rings being pretty well done. Apparently Life of Pi was well adapted. I saw the movie but never read the book but I definitely sensed a "literary" feel to the movie.