{"id":364,"date":"2006-04-21T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T02:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=362"},"modified":"2006-04-21T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-22T02:10:00","slug":"book-movie-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2006\/04\/21\/book-movie-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"Book\u2013>Movie Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saw this at kottke.org<\/a>, and wanted to do it.  The list is of the 50 best book to film adaptions<\/a>. [B] means you’ve read the book and [M] means you’ve seen the movie.<\/p>\n

1. [B] 1984
2. [BM] Alice in Wonderland
3. [M] American Psycho
4. [M] Breakfast at Tiffany’s
5. Brighton Rock
6. [B]Catch 22
7. [M] Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
8. [M] A Clockwork Orange
9.  Close Range (inc Brokeback Mountain)
10. The Day of the Triffids
11. Devil in a Blue Dress
12. [M] Different Seasons (inc The Shawshank Redemption)
13. [M] Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (aka Bladerunner)
14. Doctor Zhivago
15. Empire of the Sun
16. [M] The English Patient
17. [M] Fight Club
18. The French Lieutenant’s Woman
19. [M] Get Shorty
20. [M] The Godfather
21. [M] Goldfinger
22. [M] Goodfellas
23. [M] Heart of Darkness (aka Apocalypse Now)
24. The Hound of the Baskervilles
25. [M] Jaws
26. [M] The Jungle Book
27. A Kestrel for a Knave (aka Kes)
28. [M] LA Confidential
29. [M] Les Liaisons Dangereuses
30. [M] Lolita
31. [M] Lord of the Flies
32. [M] The Maltese Falcon
33. [M] Oliver Twist
34. [B] One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
35. Orlando
36. [M] The Outsiders
37. Pride and Prejudice
38. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
39. The Railway Children
40. Rebecca
41. The Remains of the Day
42. [M] Schindler’s Ark (aka Schindler’s List)
43. [BM] Sin City
44. The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
45. [M] The Talented Mr Ripley
46. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
47. Through a Glass Darkly
48. [BM] To Kill a Mockingbird
49. [M] Trainspotting
50. [M] The Vanishing
51. [BM] Watership Down<\/div>\n

That was fun.  I feel like I need to read more books now, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saw this at kottke.org, and wanted to do it.  The list is of the 50 best book to film adaptions. [B] means you’ve read the book and [M] means you’ve seen the movie. 1. [B] 1984 2. [BM] Alice in Wonderland 3. [M] American Psycho 4. [M] Breakfast at Tiffany’s 5. Brighton Rock 6. [B]Catch […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}