Novel & Cerita Books That Should Be Made Into Movies

"About what?" "About whether some things should stay in books, or if they should become movies too." Emma's eyes lit up. "Like Frozen? That was a movie AND a book!" If only it were that simple. I finally clicked the email open. The message was from Maria Chen, a director whose work I'd admired for years. She'd made powerful films about women overcoming impossible odds, stories that didn't shy away from darkness but always found the light. Her last film had won three Oscars.

I got squeamish about bugs and snakes, but what's there to be scared of from a book? "I found one of his more recent books when I was shopping for new stuff; now I'm going through his back-list. I watched some of the movies based on his books, too, but I didn't know they were from his book until I saw the lists." "Hey, let me know what you think when you're done reading," he said excitedly. "I can recommend the ones l like to you if you haven't read them yet." "I'm surprised you even read," I said honestly.

I walk towards my mini-library I have in my room and I bring out a book, it's been a while since I got lost in one of these fantasies. I take one out, I use my hand to trace the Braille, this was my favourite book. The Princess Diaries, I remember always reading this, I made my father read it to me when I was little as well, I remember Pretty Little Liars, I overheard someone talking about it, and when I joined in their convo, they were talking about the movie, I only read the book, funny how most people don't know that most of these movies and series were based on books, and yes these books are re written in Braille so blind people like myself can also read it.

“The Notebook, A Walk to Remember, Inception, Interstellar, The Shawshank Redemption…” His response came back almost immediately: “Wait. THE NOTEBOOK? And Inception? And Interstellar? Okay we’re about to become best friends because those are literally my top movies.” And just like that, we had something to talk about. For the next two weeks, we texted about movies constantly. Not just surface-level stuff either. We’d analyze scenes, debate endings, talk about why certain movies made us feel things. He’d send me clips from his favorite moments. I’d send him recommendations. It felt easy. Natural. Like we’d been doing this forever.

“No not really. I just don’t consider star related movies as real movies.” “Well I don’t consider people who haven’t seen Star Wars as actual human beings so…” “What” he complained. “I am sorry but there are some movies I think that people need to see to be actual human beings in the movie areas. Or else don’t see any other movies.” I clicked my tongue. “Ok, what other movies do you think people should see?” he asked. “I am glad you asked.” I turned toward him “Game of thrones, Star Wars and any lord of the ring related movies.”

I figure if the book is any good, they’ll make a movie of it, so I might as well see it then and only waste two hours of my life, as opposed to wasting all the extra time it takes to read a book. Sorry. Obviously if you’re reading this, then we don’t really see eye-to-eye on this matter. Then again, unless you happen to be a socially inept serial killer who kills for profit and runs screaming away from any kind of real human interactive relationship, then there probably isn’t too much that we see eye-to-eye on, so let’s just agree to disagree.

“Stephen King, Dan Brown, Clive Cussler, John Grisham, and the like.” “Oh! I’ve only read John Grisham among those you mentioned. I just started lately. I like The Rainmaker.” “Have you seen the movie?” “Not yet. Matt Damon is the star there, isn’t he?” “I have a copy. We can watch it if you want.” “Sure.”