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FROM: "Keri James" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
DATE: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 10:51:28 CST

Hello Everyone-

I'm using a display idea that I received from this list titled "Don't Judge
a Book by its Movie". I have the list of books made into movies that was
recently posted on fiction-l, but I would like your ideas of good books that
were made into really bad movies. I'll summarize for the list.

Thanks in advance,

Keri James
Information Services Librarian
Oak Park Public Library

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FROM: Paula Fortier <[removed]@lib.ci.phoenix.az.us>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:06:55 -0700 (MST)

Dune by Herbert


Paula H. Fortier Tel: (602) 534-5276
Desert Sage Branch Fax: (602) 534-4367
Phoenix Public Library email: [removed]@lib.ci.phoenix.az.us
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Phoenix, AZ 85035

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Keri James wrote:

> Hello Everyone-
>
> I'm using a display idea that I received from this list titled "Don't Judge
> a Book by its Movie". I have the list of books made into movies that was
> recently posted on fiction-l, but I would like your ideas of good books that
> were made into really bad movies. I'll summarize for the list.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Keri James
> Information Services Librarian
> Oak Park Public Library
>
> [removed]@hotmail.com
> ______________________________________________________
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FROM: Cecilia Cygnar <[removed]@nileslibrary.org>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 11:27:57 -0600

One of my favorite all-time novels was turned into an awful, confusing film:
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe.

Thanks,
Cecilia Cygnar
Niles Public Library District
Niles, IL

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From: Keri James [[removed]@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 10:51 AM
To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
Subject: good books made into bad movies


Hello Everyone-

I'm using a display idea that I received from this list titled "Don't Judge
a Book by its Movie". I have the list of books made into movies that was
recently posted on fiction-l, but I would like your ideas of good books that

were made into really bad movies. I'll summarize for the list.

Thanks in advance,

Keri James
Information Services Librarian
Oak Park Public Library

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FROM: Thelma Stone <[removed]@pub-lib.ci.fort-worth.tx.us>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 11:27:03 -0600 (CST)

The first time that comes to mind is Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet
Letter - movie was the Demi Moore version.

FROM: Jennifer Christiansen <[removed]@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:38:36 -0600

The 1995/Demi Moore version of the Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne.

Jennifer Christiansen
Reference Librarian
Stanislaus County Free Library
Modesto, CA

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Keri James wrote:

> Hello Everyone-
>
> I'm using a display idea that I received from this list titled "Don't Judge
> a Book by its Movie". I have the list of books made into movies that was
> recently posted on fiction-l, but I would like your ideas of good books that
> were made into really bad movies. I'll summarize for the list.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Keri James
> Information Services Librarian
> Oak Park Public Library
>
> [removed]@hotmail.com
> ______________________________________________________
> Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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FROM: Virginia Franklyn <[removed]@yahoo.com>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 10:49:03 -0800 (PST)

How about 'Strip Tease', by Carl Hiaasen. An awesome
book made into yet another Demi Moore flop.

Also, Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'. Classic piece of
literature sadly butchered in the recent version with
Gary Oldman.

People may mention 'Angela's Ashes' by Frank McCourt,
but I enjoyed the movie, although it wasn't as good as
the book.

I've also heard the movie 'Midnight in the Garden of
Good and Evil' was a flop. I didn't see it, but the
book was excellent.

-Virginia Franklyn


--- Cecilia Cygnar <[removed]@nileslibrary.org> wrote:
> One of my favorite all-time novels was turned into
> an awful, confusing film:
> The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe.
>
> Thanks,
> Cecilia Cygnar
> Niles Public Library District
> Niles, IL
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keri James [[removed]@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 10:51 AM
> To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
> Subject: good books made into bad movies
>
>
> Hello Everyone-
>
> I'm using a display idea that I received from this
> list titled "Don't Judge
> a Book by its Movie". I have the list of books made
> into movies that was
> recently posted on fiction-l, but I would like your
> ideas of good books that
>
> were made into really bad movies. I'll summarize
> for the list.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Keri James
> Information Services Librarian
> Oak Park Public Library
>
> [removed]@hotmail.com
>
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FROM: "Rebecca Vnuk" <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
DATE: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 12:50:41 -0600

A Simple Plan by Scott Smith was an interesting and fast-paced book turned
into a slow, draggy, poorly acted movie, at least in my opinion.
_________________________________________
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Morton Grove Public Library, Morton Grove, IL
(847) 965-4220 [removed]@webrary.org

"One of the great joys of being a librarian is that it is the last refuge
of the renaissance person-- everything you have ever read or learned
or picked up is likely to come in handy." - GraceAnne DeCandido

Opinions expressed are those of the author and do not
necessarily reflect official Library policy.
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> Hello Everyone-
>
> I'm using a display idea that I received from this list titled "Don't Judge
> a Book by its Movie". I have the list of books made into movies that was
> recently posted on fiction-l, but I would like your ideas of good books that
>
> were made into really bad movies. I'll summarize for the list.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Keri James
> Information Services Librarian
> Oak Park Public Library
>
> [removed]@hotmail.com
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FROM: Renee Patterson <[removed]@exchange.acld.lib.fl.us>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 13:58:03 -0500

These movies/books top my list of worst movies from good books:

Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean Auel
For the Roses by Julie Garwood [Rose Hill is the movie version]


Renee Patterson
_____________________________
High Springs Branch
Alachua County Library District
High Springs, FL
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FROM: Tish Calhamer <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:33:03 -0600 (CST)

With The Scarlet Letter, The Juror, Disclosure, and Strip Tease to start,
you could do an entire display alone of Good Books Turned Into Bad Movies
Starring Demi Moore!

**************************************************************************
Tish Calhamer
Gail Borden Public Library
200 N. Grove
Elgin, IL 60120
PH#: 847-742-2411
e-mail: [removed]@nslsilus.org

FROM: [removed]@park-ridge.lib.il.us
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 13:15:21 -0600

The Scarlet Letter with Demi Moore. She changed the ending and completely
messed up the meaning of the book....I think I read an interview where she
said she didn't think it was necessary to read the book!

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Subject: good books made into bad movies


Hello Everyone-

I'm using a display idea that I received from this list titled "Don't Judge
a Book by its Movie". I have the list of books made into movies that was
recently posted on fiction-l, but I would like your ideas of good books that
were made into really bad movies. I'll summarize for the list.

Thanks in advance,

Keri James
Information Services Librarian
Oak Park Public Library

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FROM: [removed]@charleston.lib.sc.us
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 14:58:16 -0500

Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving

Kathleen Parker
St Andrews Regional Library
Charleston, SC

FROM: Adonna Thompson <[removed]@kckpl.lib.ks.us>
DATE: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 14:33:06 -0600

It was recently made into a TV movie series but still very badly
butchered "The Scarlet Pimpernel" in my opinion.

Adonna Thompson

Keri James wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone-
>
> I'm using a display idea that I received from this list titled "Don't Judge
> a Book by its Movie". I have the list of books made into movies that was
> recently posted on fiction-l, but I would like your ideas of good books that
> were made into really bad movies. I'll summarize for the list.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Keri James
> Information Services Librarian
> Oak Park Public Library
>
> [removed]@hotmail.com
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FROM: [removed]@aol.com
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:42:40 EST

In a message dated 3/8/2000 12:00:08 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@hotmail.com writes:

<< Hello Everyone-

I'm using a display idea that I received from this list titled "Don't Judge
a Book by its Movie". I have the list of books made into movies that was
recently posted on fiction-l, but I would like your ideas of good books that
were made into really bad movies. I'll summarize for the list.

Thanks in advance,

Keri James
Information Services Librarian
Oak Park Public Library

[removed]@hotmail.com >>

You can start with Random Hearts by Warren Adler.

Binnie Syril Braunstein
Romance novelist/former librarian

FROM: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
DATE: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 16:02:03 -0600

Cast my vote for Clan of the Cave Bear, starring Darryl Hannah. Blech!!!!

Amanda Barrera
Coordinator of Technical Services
Amarillo Public Library


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From: Keri James [removed]@hotmail.com
Sent: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 10:51:28 CST
To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
Subject: good books made into bad movies


Hello Everyone-

I'm using a display idea that I received from this list titled "Don't Judge
a Book by its Movie". I have the list of books made into movies that was
recently posted on fiction-l, but I would like your ideas of good books that
were made into really bad movies. I'll summarize for the list.

Thanks in advance,

Keri James
Information Services Librarian
Oak Park Public Library

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FROM: Kathleen Martin <[removed]@gvpl.victoria.bc.ca>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 14:11:07 -0800 (PST)

The Postman by David Brin

Kathleen Martin
Co-ordinator of Community Services
Greater Victoria Public Library
Victoria, B.C.


On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Keri James wrote:

> Hello Everyone-
>
> I'm using a display idea that I received from this list titled "Don't Judge
> a Book by its Movie". I have the list of books made into movies that was
> recently posted on fiction-l, but I would like your ideas of good books that
> were made into really bad movies. I'll summarize for the list.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Keri James
> Information Services Librarian
> Oak Park Public Library
>
> [removed]@hotmail.com
> ______________________________________________________
> Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
>
>

FROM: "Lisa Colcord" <[removed]@ci.glendale.az.us>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 15:32:03 -0700

Watchers by Dean Koontz


>>> [removed]@hotmail.com 03/08/00 10:52 AM >>>
Hello Everyone-

I'm using a display idea that I received from this list titled "Don't Judge
a Book by its Movie". I have the list of books made into movies that was
recently posted on fiction-l, but I would like your ideas of good books that
were made into really bad movies. I'll summarize for the list.

Thanks in advance,

Keri James
Information Services Librarian
Oak Park Public Library

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FROM: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
DATE: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 16:06:46 -0600

I didn't see the movie version of James Lee Burke's Heaven's Prisoners,
with Alec Baldwin as Dave Robichaux, but I heard that it was a stinker.

The Name of the Rose did not begin to do justice...


=============================================================
Penelope Hamblin
Adult Services Librarian

North Regional Branch Library
Cumberland County Public Library and Information Center
Fayetteville, North Carolina

email: [removed]@cumberland.lib.nc.us
phone: 910-822-1998, ext. 230
fax: 910-480-0030

FROM: [removed]@pcpls.lib.in.us (PCPLS SHRef)
DATE: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 16:34:13 -0600

Mosquito Coast is one..
Beloved by Toni Morrison is another. Very confusing movie unless you read the
book.

Barbara Borg-Jenkins
South Haven Public Library
Valparaiso, IN 46385

Keri James wrote:

> Hello Everyone-
>
> I'm using a display idea that I received from this list titled "Don't Judge
> a Book by its Movie". I have the list of books made into movies that was
> recently posted on fiction-l, but I would like your ideas of good books that
> were made into really bad movies. I'll summarize for the list.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Keri James
> Information Services Librarian
> Oak Park Public Library
>
> [removed]@hotmail.com
> ______________________________________________________
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FROM: "Waznis, Betty" <[removed]@sdcl.org>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 14:46:23 -0800

The version of Jane Eyre with William Hurt.

Betty Waznis
San Diego County Library

FROM: MILLS Kirby D <[removed]@ci.eugene.or.us>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 14:44:45 -0800

The Choirboys--Mean and stupid + changes the ending
for cheap yuks

Less Than Zero--Bratpack fodder which attempts the
complete opposite of the book's point

Looking for Mr. Goodbar--Hamhanded Richard Brooks hits
us with screaming overstatement and clumsy fantasy
sequences

Dracula--I thoroughly agree with the previous poster
about the Coppola version. Serviceable only as un-
intentional comedy. Oh, let's include the John Badham/
Frank Langella version too

The Manhunter (from Red Dragon)--Doesn't reach badness
until 2/3 through when Michael Mann's Miami Vice in-
stincts take over and everything becomes a rock video.
Which Leads us to.....

The Silence of the Lambs--Not a *bad* movie but dis-
appointingly pedestrian. And Brian Cox from the Manhunter
was a better Dr. Lecter!

One for the future....
Get Carter, the British gangster classic based on Ted
Lewis' "Jack's Return Home", is about to be remade--
set in Los Angeles and starring Sylvester Stallone.
No further comment needed

-----Original Message-----
From: Keri James [[removed]@hotmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 8:51 AM
To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
Subject: good books made into bad movies


Hello Everyone-

I'm using a display idea that I received from this list titled "Don't Judge
a Book by its Movie". I have the list of books made into movies that was
recently posted on fiction-l, but I would like your ideas of good books that

were made into really bad movies. I'll summarize for the list.

Thanks in advance,

Keri James
Information Services Librarian
Oak Park Public Library

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FROM: Virginia Franklyn <[removed]@yahoo.com>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 14:43:38 -0800 (PST)

How about the 'Haunting of Hill House' by Shirley
Jackson. I think it was turned in to a bad movie last
year with Liam Neeson and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Virginia Franklyn (who enjoyed the movie 'A Simple
Plan')


--- Rebecca Vnuk <[removed]@webrary.org> wrote:
> A Simple Plan by Scott Smith was an interesting and
> fast-paced book turned
> into a slow, draggy, poorly acted movie, at least in
> my opinion.
> _________________________________________
> Rebecca Vnuk, Reference/Readers Services Librarian
> Morton Grove Public Library, Morton Grove, IL
> (847) 965-4220 [removed]@webrary.org
>
> "One of the great joys of being a librarian is that
> it is the last refuge
> of the renaissance person-- everything you have ever
> read or learned
> or picked up is likely to come in handy." -
> GraceAnne DeCandido
>
> Opinions expressed are those of the author and do
> not
> necessarily reflect official Library policy.
> http://www.webrary.org
>
>
> > Hello Everyone-
> >
> > I'm using a display idea that I received from this
> list titled "Don't Judge
> > a Book by its Movie". I have the list of books
> made into movies that was
> > recently posted on fiction-l, but I would like
> your ideas of good books that
> >
> > were made into really bad movies. I'll summarize
> for the list.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Keri James
> > Information Services Librarian
> > Oak Park Public Library
> >
> > [removed]@hotmail.com
> >
>
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FROM: Carolyn Reinhard <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 16:33:56 -0600 (CST)

The Firm by John Grisham - After an hour and a half, the main
character had still not made any move to go on the run - so I figured in
order to stay true to the book that the film would be four hours long.
That would have be preferable to the hideous mess they made by
substituting the THREAT OF MAIL FRAUD for the original ending!?!?! What
was THAT all about?!?!?

Carolyn O'Donnell
Advisory Services Department
Arlington Heights Memorial Library
Arlington Heights, IL 60004

FROM: Viccy Kemp <[removed]@ci.carrollton.tx.us>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 17:02:03 -0600

Actually, I enjoyed Heaven's Prisoner. I didn't see it at first release
because of what the critics said, but I thought it was an okay translation
of a James Lee Burke novel when I saw it on video. Just goes to show not all
critics know everything. I don't think any movie director/actor could do
complete justice to all the complexities of Dave Robicheaux.
I would not include this in your bad movies list.
Just my opinion, I could be wrong (as Dennis Miller says).
Viccy Kemp
The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fiction_L [[removed]@nslsilus.ORG]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 4:07 PM
> [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
> Subject: Re: Good Books/Bad movies
>
> I didn't see the movie version of James Lee Burke's Heaven's Prisoners,
> with Alec Baldwin as Dave Robichaux, but I heard that it was a stinker.
>
> The Name of the Rose did not begin to do justice...
>
>
> =============================================================
> Penelope Hamblin
> Adult Services Librarian
>
> North Regional Branch Library
> Cumberland County Public Library and Information Center
> Fayetteville, North Carolina
>
> email: [removed]@cumberland.lib.nc.us
> phone: 910-822-1998, ext. 230
> fax: 910-480-0030
>
>
>
>
>

FROM: Wendy Crutcher <[removed]@monroe.lib.mi.us>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 18:19:01 -0500 (EST)

I know a few people who were less than thrilled with "The Firm". Also,
the film "Apt Pupil" had a totally different ending rather than the one in
Stephen King's novella.

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Adult Services Librarian voice: (616)423-4771
Van Buren District Library fax: (616)423-8373
200 North Phelps Street
Decatur, MI 49045
Internet: http://sites.netscape.net/wcrutcher/bookwormcorner/bookworm.html
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FROM: Miller <[removed]@suffolk.lib.ny.us>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 20:17:36 -0500 (EST)

How about The Shining by Stephen King or for that matter any movie made
from a king novel. Cindy

FROM: "Jennifer Owens" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
DATE: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 19:24:53 CST

Speaking of Demi Moore and good books made into bad movies:

"Strip Tease" by Carl Hiaasen -
tongue-in-cheek, funny, funny characters and a great suspense novel, but an
excruciatingly poor rendition in film form. She played the character much
too straight and (I think) ruined it all.

Jennifer Owens
Grayslake Public Library

>From: Jennifer Christiansen <[removed]@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu>
>Reply-To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
>To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
>Subject: Re: good books made into bad movies
>Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:38:36 -0600
>
>
>The 1995/Demi Moore version of the Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne.
>
>Jennifer Christiansen
>Reference Librarian
>Stanislaus County Free Library
>Modesto, CA
>
>
>
>On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Keri James wrote:
>
> > Hello Everyone-
> >
> > I'm using a display idea that I received from this list titled "Don't
>Judge
> > a Book by its Movie". I have the list of books made into movies that
>was
> > recently posted on fiction-l, but I would like your ideas of good books
>that
> > were made into really bad movies. I'll summarize for the list.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Keri James
> > Information Services Librarian
> > Oak Park Public Library
> >
> > [removed]@hotmail.com
> > ______________________________________________________
> > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
> >
> >
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FROM: "Janet Lawson" <[removed]@bookbrowser.com>
DATE: Wed, 8 Mar 2000 17:57:45 -0800

> How about The Shining by Stephen King or for that matter any movie made
> from a king novel. Cindy
>

I agree with Cindy but would say that The Shawshank Redemption made from a King
short story is a very fine movie.

Another flop in my opinion is the movie version of The Handmaid's Tale.
Interesting art direction but otherwise pretty poor rendition of the story and
the relationships.

-janet


Janet Lawson, Proprietor
BookBrowser - The Guide for Avid Readers
http://www.BookBrowser.com

FROM: Diana Tixier Herald <[removed]@wic.net>
DATE: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 19:28:27 +0000

Has anyone mentioned Jeffrey Deaver's BONE COLLECTOR? The movie went
with a different motive and villain. Major disappointment.

--
Happy reading,
Di Herald
[removed]@wic.net see the Genreflecting page at
http://www.mancon.com/genre/
Rosenberg's First Law of Reading "Never apologize for your reading
tastes."

FROM: "Karen A.K. Keller" <[removed]@tln.lib.mi.us>
DATE: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 09:02:12 -0500 (EST)

On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Virginia Franklyn wrote:

You heard right-- it was a flop and the book was excellent (at least on
audio tape).

> I've also heard the movie 'Midnight in the Garden of
> Good and Evil' was a flop. I didn't see it, but the
> book was excellent.

Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library

FROM: [removed]@ci.burlington.wa.us (Janice Burwash, Burlington Public Library)
DATE: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 11:47:13 -0800

The power of one, by Bruce Courtenay was another wonderful book made into a
bad movie.

>I'm using a display idea that I received from this list titled "Don't Judge
>a Book by its Movie". I have the list of books made into movies that was
>recently posted on fiction-l, but I would like your ideas of good books that
>were made into really bad movies. I'll summarize for the list.
Janice Burwash, Resource Coordinator

Burlington Public Library
900 East Fairhaven Ave
Burlington, WA 98233
Phone (360) 755-0760 Fax (360) 755-0717
[removed]@sos.net

FROM: Barbara Perkins <[removed]@irving.lib.tx.us>
DATE: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 12:38:47 -0600

Well, yes, it was a bad movie, but Teri Hatcher got my body. I was supposed
to have that one. It was a clerical error.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Viccy Kemp [[removed]@ci.carrollton.tx.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 5:02 PM
> [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org'
> Subject: RE: Good Books/Bad movies
>
> Actually, I enjoyed Heaven's Prisoner. I didn't see it at first release
> because of what the critics said, but I thought it was an okay translation
> of a James Lee Burke novel when I saw it on video. Just goes to show not
> all
> critics know everything. I don't think any movie director/actor could do
> complete justice to all the complexities of Dave Robicheaux.
> I would not include this in your bad movies list.
> Just my opinion, I could be wrong (as Dennis Miller says).
> Viccy Kemp
> The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fiction_L [[removed]@nslsilus.ORG]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 4:07 PM
> > [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
> > Subject: Re: Good Books/Bad movies
> >
> > I didn't see the movie version of James Lee Burke's Heaven's Prisoners,
> > with Alec Baldwin as Dave Robichaux, but I heard that it was a stinker.
> >
> > The Name of the Rose did not begin to do justice...
> >
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FROM: "Carrie FARROW" <[removed]@rochester.lib.mn.us>
DATE: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 12:49:36 -0600

I would add the Good Earth. I lead a "Literature into Film" discussion group in which we all read the book and/or watch the film. The Good Earth is our discussion topic for this month, and I can already imagine the groans and laments when we comment on the film adaptation. To it's credit however it was made in 1940s Hollywood, so it couldn't be expected to be much better. Also there was a great locust plague scene.

(I remember from a past discussion that some of you don't even like the book-I must admit that I thought the book was great.)

FROM: Nancy Eggert <[removed]@chipublib.org>
DATE: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 09:55:45 -0600 (CST)

I loved Pat Conroy's Prince of Tides, hated the movie! To be honest, if I
really love a book, I usually don't see the movie because it's invariably
disappointing. If they ever make "These Is My Words" into a movie, I'll
probably picket the studio!

Nancy Eggert
Northtown Branch
Chicago Public Library

FROM: Nancy Eggert <[removed]@chipublib.org>
DATE: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 09:55:45 -0600 (CST)

I loved Pat Conroy's Prince of Tides, hated the movie! To be honest, if I
really love a book, I usually don't see the movie because it's invariably
disappointing. If they ever make "These Is My Words" into a movie, I'll
probably picket the studio!

Nancy Eggert
Northtown Branch
Chicago Public Library

FROM: "Joanne Herb, Morris County Library" <[removed]@main.morris.org>
DATE: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 14:44:42 -0500

Someone commented about all Stephen King books making bad movies.

Stand By Me was a terrific adaptation of The Body, a King novella. Great story,
great movie. The exception proving the rule... ?

Joanne Herb
Readers Services
Morris County Library
30 East Hanover Ave.
Whippany, NJ 07981

Opinions absolutely personal.

FROM: "Joanne Herb, Morris County Library" <[removed]@main.morris.org>
DATE: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 14:44:42 -0500

Someone commented about all Stephen King books making bad movies.

Stand By Me was a terrific adaptation of The Body, a King novella. Great story,
great movie. The exception proving the rule... ?

Joanne Herb
Readers Services
Morris County Library
30 East Hanover Ave.
Whippany, NJ 07981

Opinions absolutely personal.

FROM: Virginia Franklyn <[removed]@yahoo.com>
DATE: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 15:07:34 -0800 (PST)

That's true, the story line was closer, but still,
Keanu Reeves with an English accent?
Anyway, I digress, I guess I need to join a film
listsev. Anyone know of any good ones? You can reply
straight to me.

Thanks!

--- Mary's email <[removed]@scls.lib.wi.us> wrote:
> I wouldn't say that 'Dracula' was "butchered," as I
> rather enjoyed the 1995
> movie. Doesn't the story line at least run closer
> to that of the the Bram
> Stoker book than all off the other Dracula movies in
> the past?? Just my
> opinion...
>
>
> At 10:49 AM 3/8/00 -0800, you wrote:
> >How about 'Strip Tease', by Carl Hiaasen. An
> awesome
> >book made into yet another Demi Moore flop.
> >
> >Also, Bram Stoker's 'Dracula'. Classic piece of
> >literature sadly butchered in the recent version
> with
> >Gary Oldman.
> >
> >People may mention 'Angela's Ashes' by Frank
> McCourt,
> >but I enjoyed the movie, although it wasn't as good
> as
> >the book.
> >
> >I've also heard the movie 'Midnight in the Garden
> of
> >Good and Evil' was a flop. I didn't see it, but
> the
> >book was excellent.
> >
> >-Virginia Franklyn
> >
> >
> >--- Cecilia Cygnar <[removed]@nileslibrary.org>
> wrote:
> >> One of my favorite all-time novels was turned
> into
> >> an awful, confusing film:
> >> The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Cecilia Cygnar
> >> Niles Public Library District
> >> Niles, IL
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Keri James [[removed]@hotmail.com]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 10:51 AM
> >> To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
> >> Subject: good books made into bad movies
> >>
> >>
> >> Hello Everyone-
> >>
> >> I'm using a display idea that I received from
> this
> >> list titled "Don't Judge
> >> a Book by its Movie". I have the list of books
> made
> >> into movies that was
> >> recently posted on fiction-l, but I would like
> your
> >> ideas of good books that
> >>
> >> were made into really bad movies. I'll summarize
> >> for the list.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>
> >> Keri James
> >> Information Services Librarian
> >> Oak Park Public Library
> >>
> >> [removed]@hotmail.com
> >>
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FROM: "Deb Warner" <[removed]@co.durham.nc.us>
DATE: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 08:34:05 -0500

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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Peter Straub's Ghost Story---other than the
excellent casting of Fred Astaire as Ricky and John Housman as Hatch, it was
really awful.  Some plot changes ruined the main theme of the book
entirely.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I must say re Stephen King that Brian De Palm's
version of Carrie was great</FONT></DIV>
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FROM: MILLS Kirby D <[removed]@ci.eugene.or.us>
DATE: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:43:21 -0800

Actually I thought THE DEAD ZONE was terrific and CUJO
was at least workmanlike. Overall track record of King
adaptations is poor though, with special demerits for
the cheap, laughable CARRIE and the endless, constipated
and *not scary* THE SHINING....maybe because more should
have been expected

-----Original Message-----
From: JANE BAIRD [[removed]@library.ci.anchorage.ak.us]
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 1:57 PM
To: [removed]@maillist.nslsilus.org
Subject: RE: good books made into bad movies


I would take exception to "any king novel" being turned into bad movies.
I think that both "The Stand" and "The Shawshank Redemption" were quite
well done.

Jane Baird
Z.J. Loussac Library
Anchorage Alaska

FROM: Angelina Benedetti <[removed]@kcls.org>
DATE: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:48:51 -0800 (PST)

I am worried. Alice Hoffman's HERE ON EARTH has been made into a
movie that opens sometime in the next few weeks. The previews make it look
like a forbidden teen romance flick "starring Chris Klein" (ELECTION,
AMERICAN PIE). I have no intention of seeing it.

Angelina Benedetti And you may ask yourself
[removed]@kcls.org "Well, how did I get here?"
King County Library System -Talking Heads

FROM: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@nslsilus.ORG>
DATE: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 18:28:02 -0600

I found the movie version of THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
unbearable! (But then again, I'm NOT a big Daniel Day Lewis fan!) I
haven't read the book, but I've heard it's really good. And someone
told me the movie seems better once you've read the book.

Sarah Herlache
Foothills Branch Library
Glendale Arizona

FROM: New_FL <[removed]@www2.webrary.org>
DATE: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:40:01 -0600

I found the movie version of THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
unbearable! (But then again, I'm NOT a big Daniel Day Lewis fan!) I
haven't read the book, but I've heard it's really good. And someone
told me the movie seems better once you've read the book.

Sarah Herlache
Foothills Branch Library
Glendale Arizona


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FROM: "Keri James" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
DATE: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 11:23:17 CDT

Hello Everyone-

You'll find the compiled list of "Don't Judge a Book by Its Movie" below.

Thanks for the help,

Keri James
Information Services Librarian
Oak Park Public Library


Dune
Frank Herbert

The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe

The Scarlet Letter (Demi Moore)
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Strip Tease
Carl Hiaasen

Dracula (Gary Oldam)
Bram Stoker

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
John Berendt

A Simple Plan
Scott Smith

Disclosure
Michael Crichton

The Clan of the Cave Bear
Jean Auel

For the Roses (Rose Hill)
Julie Garwood

The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper

Snow Falling on Cedars
David Guterson

The Hotel New Hampshire
John Irving

Random Hearts
Warren Adler

Heaven's Prisoners
James Lee Burke

The Name of the Rose
Umberto Eco

The Postman
David Brin

The Mosquito Coast
Paul Theroux

Beloved
Toni Morrison

Watchers
Dean Koontz

Jane Eyre (William Hurt)
Charlotte Bronte

Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson

The Choirboys
Joseph Wambaugh

Less Than Zero
Bret Easton Ellis

Looking for Mr. Goodbar
Judith Rossner

The Man Hunter
Earl Fisher

The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris

The Firm
John Grisham

Apt Pupil (novella)
Stephen King

The Shining
Stephen King

The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood

The Bone Collector
Jeffery Deaver

The Power of One
Bryce Courtenay

The Prince of Tides
Pat Conroy

V.I Warshawsky (based on the series)
Sara Paretsky

Practical Magic
Alice Hoffman

Magus
John Fowles

The Good Earth
Pearl Buck
Catch-22
Joseph Heller

Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe

Sleeping With the Enemy
Nancy Price

Ghost Story
Peter Straub

First Wives Club
Olivia Goldsmith

The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera

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