Today's Top Ten Tuesday is a freebie topic, but I saw the Chocolate Lady doing book to movie adaptations, so I decided to list my favorite book to screen adaptations, which are often TV series. However, I won't get into the ones I hate, which my husband finds an endless source of amusement.
Happy Top Ten Tuesday over at That Artsy Reader Girl!
My Favorite Book to Screen Adaptations
Happy Top Ten Tuesday over at That Artsy Reader Girl!
- The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society-Netflix's adaptation is quite true to the story, leaving out only some extraneous details and characters, and upping the gorgeous Guernsey scenery!
- Game of Thrones/A Song Ice and Fire-I know people are divided on this, especially since the book series isn't finished, but having read all of the books, I frankly thought the TV series was better and much less convoluted.
- The Witcher-I've only read one of the Witcher books, but I loved the Netflix adaptation and hope there's more.
- To All the Boys I've Loved Before-I LOVED these books, and I adored the Netflix adaptations of the first two books. I do think the books were better, but the movies were fairly faithful and conveyed the cozy aesthetic really well.
- The Hunger Games-I loved the Hunger Games books, but I also thought the movies were well done and even added a level of context for what was going on in Panem society.
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory--an oldie but a goodie. I grew up on Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (the movie) before I read the book, so I may be biased, but it's full of so much love and quirk. The more recent Charlie movie is more faithful to the book, but just doesn't have the panache of Gene Wilder.
- The Magicians-I've read the whole trilogy, but haven't yet seen the whole TV series. Still, from what I saw (the first season and a half), I thought it was a great adaptation that managed to make Quentin more likable and Julia more of a character right off the bat.
- The Silver Linings Playbook-I've seen the movie and read the book and loved both. The book is more in depth and does a better job of delving into Pat's and Tiffany's illnesses, but I still think the movie is charming (plus I love Jennifer Lawrence).
- The Fellowship of the Ring-I will say that I specifically enjoyed the Fellowship of the Ring movie, because I have some distinct issues with nonsensical digressions in The Two Towers movie. The Return of the King was fairly well done, not long enough for me, but understandable.
- Little Women-the most recent adaptation of Little Women, by Greta Gerwig, (incidentally, the last movie I saw before lockdown, heh) was truly groundbreaking. I love what she did with the story and how she framed it, while remaining absolutely true to the spirit of the text, characters, and author. Highly recommend!
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Here is my TTT: https://ichlese.blog/2020/07/28/top-ten-tuesday-my-favorite-seasonal-book-movie-sustenance-pairings/
Here's my TTT if you want to have a look https://readwithstefani.com/10-books-i-want-to-read-by-the-end-of-2020/ Have a great day ahead!
My TTT .
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2020/07/28/top-ten-tuesday-274/
We enjoyed The Whicher and To All the Boys I Loved Before but I haven't read those yet.
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