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Listopia > Mark Desrosiers's votes on the list The MOVIE was BETTER than the BOOK (9 Books)
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The Thin Man
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"A common theme of this list: an ambiguous or dull character in the book gets possessed by a great actor, and turns the whole thing around. Here, we get a fun but slightly complicated novel utterly transformed onscreen by the rapport between William Powell and Myrna Loy. I still can't remember how the "
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The Night of the Hunter
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Cape Fear
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To Have and Have Not
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"Shyte novel by overrated scribbler gets transmogrified into a great work of art, no thanks to Bogart, Bacall, and (especially!) Brennan. "
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Herbert West: Reanimator and Other Stories
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The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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Starship Troopers
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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Jenn
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Aug 10, 2008 10:56AM
So...I don't have the knowledge to vote on anything, but I'm glad to hear that about The Thin Man, because I was toying with the idea of "to read"ing it, but now I'll just say "buh-bye" to Dashiell Hammett. I read my Maltese Falcon, and I'm pretty good with leaving it at that.
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