Summer Prompt: A book that became a movie

[Stina]

This was a summer-specific prompt last year, so I'll be saving it for my summer reading challenges starting sometime in May.

I have tons to choose from here. Perhaps I will finish My Cousin Rachel or Blade Runner. Or maybe I will track down Starship Troopers and see how the source material compares to its satirical movie version.

[Laura]

Stina wrote: "This was a summer-specific prompt last year, so I'll be saving it for my summer reading challenges starting sometime in May.

I have tons to choose from here. Perhaps I will finish [book:My Cousin ..."

I *strongly* recommend Starship Troopers; doubly so since you've read the book. They're almost nothing alike. The movie version made me cringe. It could have been done so much better...

[Laura]

Annihilation. The movie, which came out this year, is actually based on the whole trilogy, but it shares the same title as the first book.

[Cheryl]

Finished this one with John Grisham's Skipping Christmas. It was the basis for the movie Christmas With the Kranks.

[Stina]

I've actually not read Starship Troopers before. Or any Heinlein, for that matter. I'm not sure what I think of the movie. I don't remember much about it. But I like that the director purposefully treated it as satire when Heinlein had pretty much zero satirical intent.

[Stina]

It's been a few years since I read Annihilation. I appreciated enough about it that I'm interested in finishing the trilogy. The movie...it was just as freaky, but in some very different ways. I kinda wondered how they'd adapt that story, and, well, now I know. I think I liked the movie better.

[Stina]

I frickin' hated Skipping Christmas.

[Cheryl]

Me too. I had to ask a friend to make me finish it before I could read anything else.

[c2]

I read Heinlein in junior high and loved him but I don't know if I could take his writing style at this point. I loved Podkyne of Mars maybe because it was about a young girl. I've been meaning to reread that.

[Mary]

I’ve just finished ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children’. I saw the movie a couple of years ago with my kids. The movie is quite a lot like the book, but the ending is different. I don’t know if it is simply different, or if it drew from the two sequels to this book.

[Stina]

I read Howl's Moving Castle for this prompt as well as for The Book Was Better Book Club. And we watched the movie. The book was definitely better.