sunday's not-challenge

[dior_anghel]

I'M SORRY .

I realize I should have posted this way earlier because I am on such a different time zone from you. Therefore, some of you might only get this on Monday. It's early Sunday for me, but... *sigh*

Well. Apologies over with, onto this week's non-challenge.

What book(s) would you absolutely never want made into movies, and why?

For me I think

Comments

[owlmoose]

Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. The books are just too big and sprawling, and even if you made 10 movies for each book there's no way you'd get enough of them in there. There's been noise about a TV mini-series, which would be better, but I dunno, the idea still doesn't sit right with me.

This goes double (triple, a thousand times over) for A Song of Ice and Fire. (However, speaking of GRRM, if they ever make a Wild Cards movie I am *so there*.)

[dior_anghel]

I unfortunately know none of these, so I can't really comment. Would you recommend them? I might look them up if you like them so much.

[owlmoose]

Yes yes. Both recommended, quite strongly, although they are both unfinished series with new books slow in coming -- the last book for both was in 2005 and there aren't even release dates for the next yet. So if that kind of thing drives you crazy, you are warned. ;) But they're among my favorites. "Outlander" is time travel/romance/historical fiction; the first three books are wonderful. "A Song of Ice and Fire" is classic doorstop fantasy, with politics and intrigue and dragons. The characters are wonderful, the plot is incredibly intricate, and I just love them. So yes, recs all around.

[dior_anghel]

I will definitely look them up.

Although I don't know exactly what fandom your icon refers to, IT IS GOLD. <3

[shahrizai]

Jacqueline Carey's Kushiel books. Let's see, either too focused on the sex, or trying to leave it out altogether. Porn or sanitized Hollywood...yeah, I'll stick to the books.

[dior_anghel]

I totally agree with you! I haven't read them all but from the ones that I've read, you're absolutely right.

[heyheyrenay]

Aahaha, as soon as I read this I knew where you were going, and I haven't even read the books yet. Isn't it sad that that would happen?

Although I wonder what might happen if they adapted it for television re: Showtime/HBO.

[heyheyrenay]

Man, this was hard. I'm really used to thinking about books I want to be made into movies. asdkfjkhff;;;

1. The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne Valente
If they tried to turn this book (and its sequel) into films I would die. The problem is I think that the format at once lends this for a visual mediums while at the same time it undermines the intricacy of how the stories are weaved together, possibly to the level that it would remove the impact. The reader should feel like their tangled, falling into story after story and I'm afraid that a film wouldn't do it justice at all.

2. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
I know they're making a videogame based on this book (or so was the rumor I spied on one of my many gaming feeds). My reaction is a huge arm-wavy flailing rejection of the entire concept of taking the things Card showed us of Ender and trying to adapt them to a source where we have to be outside his head at all. Just say no

[dior_anghel]

"Also, a bonus for you: lots of recs. XD"

THIS WAS SORT OF MY EVIL PLAN ALL ALONG, HOW DID YOU KNOW, NAY, HOW DID YOU DO IT? X.X

[heyheyrenay]

CLEARLY IT IS MY SUPERIOR SENSE OF SMELL.

[dior_anghel]

*shifty eyes* I SHALL HAVE TO BE SNEAKIER NEXT TIME. DO YOU KNOW OF A PLACE WHERE I CAN BE TRAINED AS A NINJA?