As we start heading towards warmer weather, the blockbusters begin hitting movie screens. More and more, the movies are looking to books for inspiration for their next biggest hit. This leads to the ultimate question: is the book or movie better? As a librarian, I may be a little biased when I say almost always the book is better (I can only think of two instances where I would tell someone to skip the book and watch the movie!) Here are ten books that you may or may not know inspired a movie. We'll let you be the judge as to which medium is better.
Fiction
An American bioengineering research firm erects a theme park on a Caribbean island, complete with living dinosaurs, and invites a group of scientists to be its first terrified guests.
A tale of true love and high adventure, pirates, princesses, giants, miracles, fencing, and a frightening assortment of wild beasts.
In 1962 Jackson, Mississippi there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement
exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own,
forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and
daughters--view one another.
Tristran Thorn will do anything to win the cold heart of beautiful
Victoria Forester—even fetch her the star they watch fall from the night
sky. But to do so, he must enter the unexplored lands on the other side
of the ancient wall.
Ram is being held in a jail cell after winning India's biggest quiz show. It is hard to believe that a poor orphan with no education could win such a contest, but Ram explains how episodes in
his life gave him the answer to each question. Originally titled Q&A.
During the years he spends in a neural health facility, Pat Peoples formulates a theory about silver linings:
he believes his life is a movie produced by God, his mission is to
become physically fit and emotionally supportive, and his happy ending
will be the return of his estranged wife, Nikki. When Pat goes to live
with his parents, everything seems changed.
Nonfiction
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning
hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a
decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this
hauntingly beautiful city.
The most devastating political detective story of the century: two Washington Post
reporters, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation
smashed the Watergate scandal wide open, tell the behind-the-scenes
drama.
The biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., a mathematical genius whose brilliant career was cut short by
schizophrenia and who, after three decades of devastating mental
illness, miraculously recovered and was honored with a Nobel Prize.
A biographical portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln as the one-term
congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over
three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.
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