Books2Movies Club discussion

I use Kindle application for my mobile phone (together with Moon Reader), so you may expect posts from me in that field, but if you use Nook or any other application or reader, or you rather prefer paperback books, feel free to post your findings here!

Let's clarify -- books may be electronic and paperback, in any language, free or offered at low price, but must be books made into movies .

P.S. These offers are usually valid for short time, so check this thread frequently if you do not wish to miss some :)

Bat-21 by William C. Anderson, a book on which is the movie based - Bat*21 (1988) with Danny Glover and Gene Hackman in the main roles - is currently available for free on Amazon Kindle.

Today offered for free on Amazon Kindle,
The Penal Colony by Richard Herley, a book that was basis for sci-fi thriller No Escape (1994) featuring quite many familiar names, such as Ray Liotta, Lance Henriksen, Stuart Wilson, Ernie Hudson and Ian McNiece.

The Great Gatsby, audiobook narrated by Anthony Heald is currently being offered for free by Blackstone Audio and Downpour.com, so if you like audiobooks and haven't read this one, you may wish to check this offer...

I would recommend the website www.tuebl.ca

It has heaps of books for free, though you may need to download an application such as calibre to convert the books to the right format!

Thanks Jessica! I already downloaded two books that interested me at the moment. I wonder only is there a catch :)

At this stage I havent noticed one, you dont have to sign up or provide any personal details so there is no bombardment with emails or anything like that.
As long as your happy to take the time to convert the files to the right format (which is easy with calibre which is also free) it seems pretty good to me :)

I do not quite understand how reading a book on the computer can be as enjoyable as sitting comferably in a chair or sofa in the garden or by a fireside etc / please enlighten me a[not tha t I intend to try it}

Mrs wrote: "I do not quite understand how reading a book on the computer can be as enjoyable as sitting comferably in a chair or sofa in the garden or by a fireside etc / please enlighten me a[not tha t I inte..."

I thought like yourself till I was bought a kindle as a gift and it is fantastic no books laying round all stored in one area and you don't loose your place if your book mark falls out it remembers where you last read to, I love books and it is a convenient way to read for me especially as I am on the go and it is great to take with me and have lots and lots of books with me I would recommend getting one

I personally love to read paperbacks and even hardbacks. I even have a room full of books I have no shelf to put them on, but the advantage of ebooks is immense. Except these obvious ones Sue mentioned (easier and convenient read wherever you are, bookmarking and highlighting quotes without harming the books themselves etc), some books I simply wish to read without having them around afterwards, especially if I do not feel I would like them that much. For that it's great to use local library, but mine doesn't have many items I wish to read so I turned my head towards ebooks.

Oh and I forgot the action currently taking place: Downpour is this week offering an audiobook narrated by Mark Bramhall, Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey for free. Not that I am acquainted with narrators' quality in audiobook sphere, but seems tempting enough, especially as I recall one lovely adaptation of this book, starring Ed Harris, Amy Madigan and Henry Thomas.

Somehow the most tempting offers I find lately are mostly audiobooks.
This time it is The Prince and the Pauper, narrated by Steve West - it is offered for free this week only by SYNC as part of their YA & Classic Audiobooks Summer Programme.

Yea i love the feel of actual books . But i was running out of room so i bought a kindle . I found that on fridays you can get a book for a 1.99 and sometimes popular books of the moment range from 6.99 and up ( like silver linings and walking disaster) . So it kinda works out but i miss the feel and smell of a library book the most. I also read actuals books faster.

That's good tip for Fridays, didn't know, thanks :)

There's actually kindle deal going on in August for some books made into movies and some about movies and actors (but prices may vary depending on the country you are from!):
Bringing Down the House by Ben Mezrich (the movie title's 21)
Asylum by Joe Pantoliano
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Ron Hansen
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
Tilly Trotter by Catherine Cookson
I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle
Marilyn: Norma Jeane by Gloria Steinem
The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw

Anytime and Cool thanks for the update. I actually had one of those on my list to read

Unique (while it lasts though) offer on Amazon for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's Reissue Edition of The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick - it's on sale today for 1,99 USD or less, depending where are you from.

Let me remind you, earlier this year it was said (i.e. in Variety) that SyFy's going to make a TV series with Ridley Scott as the executive director. It may take a year or more before anything comes of this announcement, but still...

Some Kindle books are currently discounted - 2,99$ or less -- again, it depends on the country you are from (I could get only the first one, but didn't want to, just to spite Amazon, because I couldn't get all the others...):

Water for Elephants
The Lincoln Lawyer
The Handmaid's Tale
The Lightning Thief
The Host
Howl's Moving Castle
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

The Magician's Elephant is also discounted, at an amazing 0,99$ price. It was planned to be filmed back in the year 2010, now I have no clue what happened with the production. Maybe it's still rolling, maybe not... But if you like her work or have kids that might like it, here's chance to buy it.

From Here to Eternity by James Jones on Amazon currently at quite low price of 1,99$.

Currently discounted (not for everybody though):
Horns by Joe Hill
Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison (aka Soylent Green)
The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Kindle discounts today only:

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell Jr.
The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut

Another Kindle book for bargain price:
Mystic River by Dennis Lehane

Thanks for the link, Jennifer!


I am not sure if they were already on discount, but following Armistead Maupin's books are currently offered on Amazon for $1.99 each:
Tales of the City
and
More Tales of the City

If not certain you would like his works, on Amazon you can take Tales of the City Episode 1: Taking the Plunge, the first story in the series, for free.

To promote the newly released film, Ben Stiller narrated
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber,
that is available for free on Audible.

The original story may be read in The New Yorker's online archive.

I don't know is it any good, but I just saw
I, Frankenstein: Genesis #1 by Kevin Grevioux is offered for free on Comixology.

Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan is currently being offered on Kindle for an excellent $1.99 price tag.

A basis for the movie Angel Heart (1987), William Hjortsberg' Falling Angel is currently listed on Kindle for $1.99.

Currently at lowered price on Amazon Kindle:

Amazing Grace by Eric Metaxas
The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp (the basis for The Sound of Music (1965))
I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle

Amazon Kindle offers for $2.99 or less:

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Dear Cary: My Life with Cary Grant by Dyan Cannon

Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern

Amazon Kindle offers today many movie tie-in books at lower prices, here are some of them:
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
Six Days of the Condor by James Grady
On the Waterfront: A Novel by Budd Schulberg
Kramer vs. Kramer: A Novel by Avery Corman

Currently discounted on Kindle:

The Maze Runner by James Dashner

Currently discounted for Kindle:

To Die For: A Novel by Joyce Maynard

Seven books from Dresden Files by Jim Butcher are all discounted on Kindle, today only, for 1.99$ (or less) each.

Another SYNC Summer Program is up!

The first audiobook title that might interest you (club-wise) is
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells and narrated by Derek Jacobi.

Great discounts (at the moment, of course!) for some Kindle books made into movies:

The Physician by Noah Gordon
The Bastard by John Jakes
Horns by Joe Hill
From Here to Eternity by James Jones

A lot of books discounted at the moment on Amazon Kindle:

Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
The Bridge of San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder
The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell
Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King (adaptation planned for 2015)
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
The Ghost by Robert Harris
Labor Day by Joyce Maynard
Pines by Blake Crouch
The Road to Jerusalem by Jan Guillou
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

Interesting kindle discount offers these days:

Capote by Gerald Clarke

Psychos: Serial Killers, Depraved Madmen, and the Criminally Insane - impressive short stories collection, that includes also a story The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown

This month's discounts on Kindle:

The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
The Good German by Joseph Kanon
The Lost by Jack Ketchum
Montalbano's First Case by Andrea Camilleri
A Night to Remember by Walter Lord
Offspring by Jack Ketchum

Currently offered for free on Amazon:

Laughs, Luck...and Lucy: How I Came to Create the Most Popular Sitcom of All Time by Jess Oppenheimer

Currently discounted:

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
The Shining by Stephen King

Kindle edition of Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen is available again for $1.99.

Currently for free on Amazon Kindle:

The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers (the title story was featured in HBO series True Detective)

Please check this year's SYNC audiobook titles, because it just opened new summer season with two great titles:

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Same location, new great title for free:

The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger

Currently available for $1.99 on Amazon Kindle:
North and South by John Jakes

SYNC again, offering another great classic novel for free:

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Currently available for 1.99$ on Kindle:
Crazy Heart by Thomas Cobb

Currently for 1.99$ everywhere (I assume):

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire

Currently on Kindle for 0.99$:

True Crime by Andrew Klavan