Random Thoughts: Your First Love

For this Random Thoughts topic, in the comments section, please tell us about the first book you fell in love with. The first book you could absolutely not put down and as soon as you were done you wanted to read it all over again!

Random Thoughts: Favorite Lines

There are a lot of particularly funny one-liners in this book. What are some of your favorites? (Without giving away too much plot)

Bad Movies, Great Books.

Hey I kept thinking about this concept this morning so I decided we should make it into a list. We have all had the disappointment of reading a great book, getting excited about it being turned into movie, 6 months later we wait in line for the popcorn, simply to be let down by something that loosely resembles the paper turner that we just read. For example I am a huge Michael Crichton fan and when he was asked/paid to write a sequel to Jurassic Park, I was very excited. I enjoyed the book as much if not more than the first and was very excited about the movie. I remember being a bit nervous about it since the first movie ended very different from the first book, yet he adapted the second book so it could match either ending, however I didn't expect what I got. I am not going to it into the horrible detail I will simply state: My favorite MAIN character from the book evidentially wasn't important enough to be in the movie.

So lets make a list. Mine is The Lost World by Michael Crichton. Also please note, there will be many different classifications for this list. Here are some examples:
Movies that forget to include the plot.

Books that were suspenseful yet the suspense doesn't translate to the movie or a mystery that gives up the mystery before has built up enough to be excited. (Da Vinci Code)

Movies that create action scenes our of thin air. (War of the Worlds, I personally haven't read it but I have reliable source that tell me this is true.)

Great Sci Fi, Doesn't translate in 2 hours.

Last, the person that can name a great movie that was a terrible book gets 5 brownie points. (Don't forget if you get 25 brownie points the newest member of the book club is required to bake you brownies.)

Random Thoughts: Favorite Blog

Random Thoughts: Favorite Author

Random Thoughts: What are your favorite books?

In the comment section please give a list of your favorite books that you have read. This can give book club members who finish their monthly books early an idea of what to read.

Because We Love Lists

I could not resist posting a Top 100 Movies List. Granted there are many many of these lists floating around, but I thought this was sufficiently well-rounded, and it includes bonus "too good to pass up" movies at the bottom. Feel free to post a rival list.

http://www.filmsite.org/ew100.html

Top 100 Book Lists

Modern Library's Top 100 Books Contrasted with the Reader's List of the Top 100 Novels

http://www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/100bestnovels.html

A little more manageable than top 1001!

1001 Books to Read Before You Die

http://booklit.com/blog/1001-books-to-read-before-you-die/