10 Books That Were Better Off on Paper [Failures Of Cinema]

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Published 6/30/2008 by david (boy@largeheartedboy.com) at Largehearted Boy
... Oregon Public Broadcasting features Perhapst with an in-studio performance and interview. io9 lists 10 science fiction books that were better than the films they inspired. The Los Angeles Times reviews Benjamin ...

10 Books That Were Better Off on Paper
Published 6/30/2008 by bspcn at The Best Article Every day
Written by Nivair H. Gabriel It’s happened to all of us. We read a novel that blows us away, and a few years later its title appears on posters underneath the face of Harrison Ford or Natalie Portman. But at some inevitable point in that darkened theater, the movie takes a turn we didn’t expect. Our eyebrows go up, our lips turn down, and the disappointment begins. Maybe the wrong director or writer can curse an otherwise excellent project - or maybe some things were ...