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List created for the 2023 reading challenge in the Ultimate Popsugar Reading Challenge group.
A book based on a popular movie
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A book based on a popular movie
Please use this list for all books you are considering reading, as well as books you would recommend for this prompt! If you use the "Search" feature to add books (instead of choosing from "My Books"), that will eliminate multiple versions of the same book being added to the list. When you add the book, you can add a comment (in the box provided next to "why you added this book" if you wish.
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list created December 2nd, 2022
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Dec 14, 2022 08:38AM
A lot of these look to be movies that were based on popular books, not books based on popular moviesd. Holes, Pet Sematary, Ready Player One, Fight Club, The Martian, The Maze Runner... Am I just missing something about the background of what inspired the books to begin with?
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Lisa wrote: "A lot of these look to be movies that were based on popular books, not books based on popular moviesd. Holes, Pet Sematary, Ready Player One, Fight Club, The Martian, The Maze Runner... Am I just m..."Agreed. Many titles on this list were books before they were movies not the other way around. I interpret the prompt to mean the movie inspired the book.
The prompt means books inspired by movies not movies inspired by books
This is a really frustrating list! Is there any way to edit, to remove all the books that were the inspiration FOR their movies? I'm really having trouble with this prompt. I may just read a random Star Wars book, since they pretty much ALL are inspired by the series'. I wish I'd waited until this year to read Uhura's Song, so I could count it. I really liked it! I liked being able to visualize the characters and their voices (I could only find it as an ebook) I'm going to read another of Janet Kagan's books, Mirabile, but it has nothing to do with Star Trek.
I did find this one, Envoy: A Captain Sulu Adventure, at my library, on Overdrive, and it's audio! It says to "listen with headphones for the best experience". And it's narrated by George Takei!
Tracy wrote: "The prompt means books inspired by movies not movies inspired by books" There are so many books that inspired a movie on this list.
Glad I’m not the only one seeing dozens of entries that were books before they were movies instead of the other way round. Also looks like the majority were added by the same two people.
Are y'all picky about it being a movie as opposed to like - the Stranger Things books?
Leonore Fleischer made a career of writing novels based on movies. I added a few but if you check her out you will see a list of books suitable for this challenge.
I wonder what the definition of "popular" is :)I have the Crimson Peak novelisation on my TBR. The movie wasn't loved by critics (alas, given the cast), but it's Rotten Tomatoes rating is 73% (still "fresh"), and worldwide takings exceeded budget, at $74.7 million, against a budget of $55 million. Maybe that's as good a definition of popular as any?
