This post used to have 10 great novels. You never know when you adapt a novel if the movie will be better than the book. Some following novels were thought to become great movies. The projects were delayed indefinitely. Others were never really considered. Some of them are pure fiction, some are fantasies or science fiction. Worse novels found their ways to the big screen and a few of them even became box office hits. First of the Great Novels: Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts Of … [Read more...]
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The Disaster Artist, the Book Loosely Inspiring the Homonymous Movie
The Disaster Artist is a movie directed by James Franco. He played Tommy Wiseau, the weird self-made producer, director, and writer of the cult movie The Room. His brother, Dave Franco, played Greg Sestero, an actor-model who is credited as the book’s author, but my feeling is that a ghostwriter made it. Doesn’t matter because this time, both movie and book are very entertaining, almost like The Room itself. Not Necessarily a Parallel Don’t think that Franco kept the script like the book’s … [Read more...]
Origin by Dan Brown, the Fifth Novel in the Robert Langdon Series
Origin is the last installment in Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon series, the fifth, to be more precise. In my humble opinion, it’s also his best to date, best in the series, the best novel he ever wrote. The subject is endearing and controversial in an era when one can be killed for its convictions, and if not physically killed, then theoretically, in public opinion’s eyes. [source: http://prhinternational.com/] Origin - Plot This mystery thriller is about how a futurist billionaire … [Read more...]
The Dark Fields aka Limitless by Alan Glyn, an Entertaining Techno-Thriller
This is a book which never was a priority for me to read. Maybe you know that The Dark Fields is called now Limitless after the movie apparently inspired by it. What I have never understood is how one can take a good book, and believe when I tell you that The Dark Fields is a good read, make a script after it and then destroy every logic structure and make a second-hand movie. [source: goodreads] The Dark Fields on short, actually on very short When I watched Limitless in 2001, … [Read more...]
The Mountain Shadow, a Shantaram Sequel
Despite a few rough critics it encountered from some purists (especially of Indian origin), The Mountain Shadow, a sequel grandiosely written by the talented Gregory David Roberts, is as captivating as Shantaram, its predecessor. It has been published ten years later, in October 2015. I have read it with the same pleasure, because it was very catchy, almost as the first one. It seems a long read, some other nine hundred pages, but it's definitely worthy. If you loved Shantaram, you will love … [Read more...]
The Childhood of Jesus, a Book Written by J.M.Coetzee
"The Childhood of Jesus" is a very sensitive book written by John Maxwell Coetzee, an acclaimed South African writer who recently changed his location to Australia. It is his last book, or at least, it will be until September 21, 2016, when a sequel is scheduled to be published in the United Kingdom. That book's name is "The Schooldays of Jesus". The Childhood of Jesus - Plot Critics say that it has a lot of biblical references, hence the title. I consider it a fantasy utopia in a … [Read more...]