Book you would like to see made into a movie [Archive]

Sharpieman

12-10-2004, 08:53 AM

The charlie and the chocolate factory thread sparked this idea.

I would love to see the book "A Brave New World" made into a movie.

Also, "See Spot Run" would be very interesting. Jane would be sexed up a bit by Angelina Jolie.

Sharpieman

12-10-2004, 08:56 AM

WTF? how did your thread come before mine? Can you read my mind?

MikeVic

12-10-2004, 09:01 AM

Hah. It's the CURSED BOARD OF DOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!! Yes I can still see yours.

moriarty

12-10-2004, 09:03 AM

I'm telling ya' if we can change the front page to a picture of a grilled chesse sandwhich that looks like the virgin Mary, and sell this site as haunted we'll make a fortune on ebay.

Sorry, back to topic:

Sharpieman

12-10-2004, 09:03 AM

Wasn't there some game that came out of Jennifer Government?

MikeVic

12-10-2004, 09:29 AM

Wasn't there some game that came out of Jennifer Government?

Yeah, Nationstates.

fantastic flying froggies

12-10-2004, 09:36 AM

Bilbo the Hobbit, seing as they did a good job with LotR.

Raiders Army

12-10-2004, 09:40 AM

I would think that perhaps the Dictionary or Thesaurus would be hard books to make into movies....probably wouldn't make too much either.

Logan

12-10-2004, 09:48 AM

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Oh, wait...

mckerney

12-10-2004, 09:52 AM

I'd say something by Heinlein, but not after what happened to Starship Troopers.

stevew

12-10-2004, 09:56 AM

I would like to see a movie based on Lemony Snickets series of Unfortunate
Events.

condors

12-10-2004, 09:57 AM

Enders Game

moriarty

12-10-2004, 10:01 AM

I would like to see a movie based on Lemony Snickets series of Unfortunate
Events.

You're kidding right?

stevew

12-10-2004, 10:01 AM

You're kidding right?

Holy shit, my dreams have come true! :)

korme

12-10-2004, 10:07 AM

Hatchet, or the Giver

Sharpieman

12-10-2004, 10:08 AM

Holy shit, my dreams have come true! :)
LOL!!!

mightyshoe

12-10-2004, 10:18 AM

I think that they did make a version of "Brave New World" in the '70's. But it would be worth revisiting now.
There were plans to make "Confederacy of Dunces" but apparently it fell through. I am both relieved and disappointed. I like to see a good treatment of it but I have not faith in hollywood to do so. Will Farrell (spelling?) was up for the lead role.

jonesz

12-10-2004, 10:28 AM

The Dragonlance series. The first three "Chronicles" for starters would make an amazing trilogy. Maybe too large to make into a movie though?

BreizhManu

12-10-2004, 10:30 AM

Hyperion, but the movie would probably be crappy

MikeVic

12-10-2004, 10:30 AM

Brave New World might be hard to tackle in a couple of scenes. Wasn't there something about children being naked and having sex during recess?

tanglewood

12-10-2004, 11:00 AM

Hitchhikers Gui... oh wait. It IS being made. Hurrah!

:D

Fonzie

12-10-2004, 11:03 AM

Fonzie

12-10-2004, 11:05 AM

Dola-

I wouldn't mind seeing Stephen King's "The Gunslinger" turned into a movie. The ending isn't very "hollywood", of course, so the question would then become: do you keep on going with the entire Dark Tower series?

I wouldn't mind it, myself.

Fonzie

12-10-2004, 11:10 AM

Double dola-

Kurt Vonnegut's "Player Piano" or "Sirens of Titan" might be fun, too.

Sun Tzu

12-10-2004, 11:30 AM

Reign of the Dead!

andy m

12-10-2004, 11:52 AM

something by haruki murakami. just to see how it turned out. probably not so great, but it'd be nice to see someone try.

JPhillips

12-10-2004, 11:53 AM

mckerney: I never have understood why they haven't made a straight movie out of one of Heinlien's early books. It seems like it writes itself.

I would love to see Charlie Wilson's War be made into a movie. I have never read a more interesting adventure/war book and its all true. The story of our involvement in Afghanistan in the 1980's could also sell very well right now.

Tom E

12-10-2004, 01:23 PM

I say the Bible, I can see it now. I'll call it "The Passion of Christ" Naw, it would never work.

AENeuman

12-10-2004, 01:44 PM

Friends and I talk about this all the time....here's three, all happen to be non-fiction:

Pimp; Iceberg Slim
You Can't Win; Jack Black, hobo/theif life around 1900
Barbary Coast; same guy who wrote Gangs of NY, no Leo or Cameron please

CHEMICAL SOLDIER

12-10-2004, 02:00 PM

I would like to see a movie based on Will Forstchen's Lost Regiment Series.

spleen1015

12-10-2004, 02:06 PM

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Series, but that would be a lot of movies. Practically, it is an impossibility.

sabotai

12-10-2004, 02:21 PM

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Icewind Dale Trilogy (and all of them, but that would be a lot of movies. :) ) by R.A. Salvatore
Ocenaspace, Chronospace or Coyote by Allen Steele
Timothy Zahn's Star Wars trilogy would make perfect Episodes 7, 8 and 9 (but it will never happen)

Tigercat

12-10-2004, 02:26 PM

An updated treatment for Shogun would be nice, one movie would be rater impossible though.

I am afraid any movie version of Ender's Game would be turned into a kids movie. But if done somewhat seriously, it would be great.

Samdari

12-10-2004, 02:36 PM

The Alienist - Caleb Carr
Battle Circle - Piers Anthony
Dragonflight - Anne McCaffrey

AnalBumCover

12-10-2004, 02:41 PM

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Series, but that would be a lot of movies. Practically, it is an impossibility.I'd like to see this in anime form, something like they did with the Record of Lodoss War series.

Logan

12-10-2004, 02:54 PM

Bringing Down the House (the Vegas story, not the Steve Martin/Queen Latifah movie)

Kevin Spacey's production company is supposedly working on it (with Spacey to play the role of "Mickey"), but who knows if it will ever actually come about.

Surtt

12-10-2004, 03:20 PM

SplitPersonality1

12-10-2004, 03:21 PM

The Forever War by Joe Haldeman

This would be a great book, but only if Haldeman had a hand in making the film. Probably won't happen as the old rascal is not very "Hollywood".

sabotai

12-10-2004, 03:51 PM

I was thinking Shogun too. But it would have to be at least a trilogy to give it justice. I want to see the old version (made for TV?). Was it any good?

duckman

12-10-2004, 04:11 PM

The Summons by John Grisham.

Coffee Warlord

12-10-2004, 04:18 PM

The Summons by John Grisham.

Trouble is, as I recall, every Grisham book turned into a movie has been utterly butchered, and is painful to watch.

The one and only movie (though it'd have to be more than one if you did all 10 short books - Corwin's saga could work in a 3 hour movie, perhaps) I'd kill for is Roger Zelazny's Amber series....if they kept to the book(s).

Coffee Warlord

12-10-2004, 04:22 PM

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Series, but that would be a lot of movies. Practically, it is an impossibility.

I dunno, it might be doable, considering the sheer amount of useless drivel that's in those books (particularly the last what...three). You could condense the fuck out of those books, prolly get it into a trilogy.

WSUCougar

12-10-2004, 04:42 PM

I've always wondered why no one has done a modern, serious movie based on one or more of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories.

Fonzie

12-10-2004, 04:45 PM

I've always wondered why no one has done a modern, serious movie based on one or more of Edgar Allan Poe's short stories.

I agree entirely. This should be a no-brainer for hollywood.

Arthur C. Clark's "Rama" and "Childhood's End" would also be fun.

Calis

12-10-2004, 04:47 PM

So many possibilities...

The fantasy geek in me thinks that Elric by Michael Moorcock could be translated pretty well into a movie.

Red Harvest by Daschell Hammett I can't believe hasn't been made into one, unless I missed it somewhere.

Agree with Poe also, and Lovecraft to boot..some of his stories would be good although it'd be very hard to get the feel across I think.

Could come up with tons I think, but this'll do for now.

Draft Dodger

12-10-2004, 04:50 PM

I'd like to see some of Crichton's books re-made into GOOD movies.

Congo, Sphere and Timeline.

seconding the Dragonlance recommendations...but damn if they wouldn't butcher that.

Surtt

12-10-2004, 05:13 PM

This would be a great book, but only if Haldeman had a hand in making the film. Probably won't happen as the old rascal is not very "Hollywood".

Have you read "Forever Peace?"
He seams to have lost it.

VIETNAM AND OTHER ALIEN WORLDS is a great though.

Glengoyne

12-10-2004, 05:14 PM

Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time Series, but that would be a lot of movies. Practically, it is an impossibility.
They could stop after the first six, I mean that is when the series jumped the proverbial shark. They could just break the world at the end. It would be a lot less painless than the last couple of books.

Abe Sargent

12-10-2004, 05:27 PM

Hmmmm....

I've always wanted a well done Red Storm Rising, but since the Cold War is over....

I think that Niven and Pournelle's works are brillant and easily adaptable. The Mote in God's Eye is genius, and Lucifer's Hammer is just one of the best books ever. I especially love the post-comet world is created. I'd like to see that sort of idea in a film, where the comet hits in the first 30 minutes, and the meat of the film is the aftermath. I especially think that the scene when the guy is driving his truck along the railroad tracks, and can see nothing but water in every direction, all the way up to the track, would be especially cinematic. I also love the scene where the diabetic professor knows he'll die in the post-crash world, so instead of looting and rioting, he spends his time sealing up the greatest books of all time and securing them for a future generation. It's amazingly good stuff, and I think that it would translate very well.

I still want to see just one good, well done Lovecraft story. Not the slasher type of horror, but a Lovecraftian psychological horror that is all about mood and pacing instead of slash and scare.

-Anxiety

Galaril

12-10-2004, 06:08 PM

I would love to see fire and ice series by George rr Martin done into movies.

Coffee Warlord

12-10-2004, 06:17 PM

Speaking of book/movies.

Who's all gonna watch Sci-Fi's Earthsea miniseries come monday?

bamcgee

12-10-2004, 06:37 PM

Joyce's Ulysses

GrantDawg

12-10-2004, 06:39 PM

I would love to see fire and ice series by George rr Martin done into movies.
Agreed. Also, I think the Sci-Fi channel could make a series out the Wheel of Time.

Tigercat

12-10-2004, 07:56 PM

I was thinking Shogun too. But it would have to be at least a trilogy to give it justice. I want to see the old version (made for TV?). Was it any good?

Yea i am pretty sure it was made for TV miniseries. I've never seen it either, as everytime i see it in a store its for around 60 bucks(the DVD set) and I never quite have the money to spend. Shogun is my favorite piece of fiction though, so I would love to see it in installments on the big screen with the same treatment(stars, budget, ect) as Last Samurai got.

CHEMICAL SOLDIER

12-10-2004, 10:05 PM

Another book I'd like turned into a movie is: The Moonshae Trilogy.

DaddyTorgo

12-10-2004, 10:17 PM

Well...two "series" of books. In order of desire.

1) The "Ender" saga by Orson Scott Card. Yes, I know it's in the works supposedly, but it's been in the works forever. If done right, it could totally blow...everything out of the water.

2) The Dark is Rising Trilogy - as a Lemony Snickett-esque scary children's movie. These books were so great when I was 9 and 10, I'd love to see them on the screen.

DaddyTorgo

12-10-2004, 10:19 PM

Enders Game
dola

Damnit, you beat me to it Condor. You know it's "supposedly" in the works, right? I usta have a website talking about how it was supposedly in the works, I suppose if you google it you could find it.

3 cheers for the OSC

randal7

12-10-2004, 10:30 PM

Timothy Zahn's Star Wars trilogy would make perfect Episodes 7, 8 and 9 (but it will never happen)
I was at the library the other day and saw he's written either two or three follow-ups to these. Haven't had a chance to read them yet, tho.

sachmo71

12-10-2004, 11:03 PM

Runelords is coming. Hopefully they do it well, but I haven't kept up with it.

Song of Ice and Fire might be cool, but many people dislike when main characters are whacked.

I've also heard they are doing a bigger budget D&D movie. Anything will be better than the last one.

Wheel of Time would be nice, but I'm not sure if it's doable. Too much would need to be left out.

Young Drachma

12-10-2004, 11:47 PM

Glimmer, by Annie Waters
The Southpaw, by Mark Harris

Fonzie

12-10-2004, 11:50 PM

Joyce's Ulysses

That would be a director's worst nightmare. :)

Fonzie

12-10-2004, 11:51 PM

Dola-

Not to mention the poor slob who'd have to adapt it. He'd never sleep again.

duckman

12-11-2004, 12:22 AM

Best of Penthouse Forum.

stevew

12-11-2004, 12:59 AM

I'd like to see if someone could adapt Catcher in the Rye and not have it totally suck.
Doubt it could happen anyways.

jbmagic

12-11-2004, 01:00 AM

i would like to see the Hobbit made into a movie

sabotai

12-11-2004, 02:17 AM

sabotai

12-11-2004, 02:18 AM

I was at the library the other day and saw he's written either two or three follow-ups to these. Haven't had a chance to read them yet, tho.

Yeah, he wrote 2 follow up books. Have not read them and I'm almost afraid too. I hope he didn't just crank them out to capitalize on the success of the trilogy he wrote. As it is, it'll be awhile before I can read them anyway.

Abe Sargent

12-11-2004, 03:14 AM

If we want to go with other classic fantasy, then I'd want something that could translate well to the screen as well as being good. Dragonlance Chronicles is probably the best.

I do not see any Forgotten Realms works doing so, sorry. Neither Robert Jordan, David Drake, McCaffrey.

I do think that the Memory, Sorrow and Thorn trilogy might translate well. Ditto Tad's Otherland Sci-fi, btw, which would be a solid Sci-Fi flick (and easily condensed the whole series into a movie.)

-Anxiety

Super Ugly

12-11-2004, 06:48 AM

something by haruki murakami. just to see how it turned out. probably not so great, but it'd be nice to see someone try.

andym, did you happen to catch the production of The Elephant Vanishes at the Barbican? I was a little skeptical about how successful it would be, but I was very impressed - Simon McBurney (a Cambridgeshire boy!) did a great job, and I think that he would be more than capable of directing a film.

If anybody here lives in Michigan, I'm fairly certain that the production is going to be coming your way (Ann Arbor, I think?). If you have any interest in Japanese literature you should definitely go and check it out.

Flame Eater

12-11-2004, 09:41 AM

1. Dragonriders of Pern.
2. Dragonlance.
3. The Forever War.

All three are great rereads; would make great visual movies.

3ric

12-11-2004, 10:08 AM

Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age"

Mr. Wednesday

12-11-2004, 01:11 PM

Yeah, he wrote 2 follow up books. Have not read them and I'm almost afraid too. I hope he didn't just crank them out to capitalize on the success of the trilogy he wrote. As it is, it'll be awhile before I can read them anyway.To some extent, I think that depends on how much you want to see some loose ends tied up from the first three books. I thought they were pretty good, although as I recall there were a number of references to events that occurred in other expanded universe books in the intervening years (as far as the timeline goes).

Abe Sargent

12-11-2004, 01:11 PM

Romance of the Three Kingdoms might make a massively good epic series of movies.

-Anxiety

fantastic flying froggies

12-11-2004, 01:31 PM

Funny how most books chosen here are sci-fi or heroic fantasy. I guess it goes hand-in-hand with text sims... We are, after all, mostly nerds and geeks, aren't we all?

Anyway, Calis made me think of another one with his Elric suggestion. I think a better Moorcock book to make in a movie would be the Hawkmoon series. I can already picture the Granbritons with their animal masks... and of course Count Brass lives right in the middle of the Camargue (spelled Kamarg in the book) in his Aigues-Mortes castle which is maybe 10 miles away from where I live...

Abe Sargent

12-11-2004, 01:37 PM

I love Moorcock, but I don't know how well his style would play out. If you wanted to find out, do the Erekose movie, where some random guy finds himself in a world where humans are barbaric and an elf-like race will eventually kill all of the humans, and Erekose has to choose whether to fight for his people or fight against them.

Yeah, I just don't think it would play.

For the Hawkmoon stuff, you could just do the first series, cut out "The Sword of the Dawn" completely from the script, reduce "The Mad God's Amulet" significantly, and simply adapt the first and last books. Hawkmoon has the most classic story line stuff of Moorcock's, so if anything will fit, it will.

-Anxiety

sabotai

12-14-2004, 05:01 PM

Yea i am pretty sure it was made for TV miniseries. I've never seen it either, as everytime i see it in a store its for around 60 bucks(the DVD set) and I never quite have the money to spend. Shogun is my favorite piece of fiction though, so I would love to see it in installments on the big screen with the same treatment(stars, budget, ect) as Last Samurai got.

I started getting these DVDs from Netflix. I only watched the first hour or so, but so far it seems to be a very literal version. It's been awhile since I've read the book, but every scene I saw I went "I remember that in the book."

It definately has the production value of a TV mini-series, but so far it's pretty good.

And Romance of the Three Kingdoms would make an epic series of movies...epic being the key word. :)

Tigercat

12-14-2004, 05:17 PM

I started getting these DVDs from Netflix. I only watched the first hour or so, but so far it seems to be a very literal version. It's been awhile since I've read the book, but every scene I saw I went "I remember that in the book."

It definately has the production value of a TV mini-series, but so far it's pretty good.

And Romance of the Three Kingdoms would make an epic series of movies...epic being the key word. :)

how many DVDs is it? If its very literal it must be as long as a television season. Mariko better be hot! :cool:

atatange1

12-14-2004, 05:28 PM

I would love to see fire and ice series by George rr Martin done into movies.

I'd love to see that as well. HBO should work. Six books, six seasons, say 10 episodes a season should work.

JonInMiddleGA

12-14-2004, 05:33 PM

Ditto Tad's Otherland Sci-fi, btw, which would be a solid Sci-Fi flick (and easily condensed the whole series into a movie.)

That's a whole bunch of stuff to squeeze into a movie ... goes upstairs to check length ... about 4,000 paperback pages worth. Seems like that'd need a sci-fi miniseries, about 4 hours worth to make it work.

I mean, you could condense a lot of the repitition ("we're good, we're screwed, we're really screwed, we're good, we're really really screwed, etc.") but without it, I don't know if the story gets the very effective use of desperation/frustration that the series built along the way.

digamma

12-14-2004, 05:43 PM

Missing Links by Rick Reilly

sabotai

12-14-2004, 06:12 PM

how many DVDs is it? If its very literal it must be as long as a television season. Mariko better be hot! :cool:

There are 5, but one is a Bonus DVD, so it's probably just 4. Each one is 2 hours and 17 minutes. And so far, just one shot of Mariko (during opening credits). Didn't look all that hot unfortunately. Perhaps they chose a bad still of her. :)

Leonidas

12-14-2004, 08:05 PM

The Player of Games - Iain Banks
Master and Commander -Patrick O'Brian (a movie really made from the story of this book, not loosely inspired by it and half-ass kluged together with the story of another book in the series)

KWhit

12-14-2004, 08:08 PM

The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty.

Yes, I'm serious.

Antmeister

12-14-2004, 09:41 PM

Winter Warriors by David Gemmell - This book is what got me to read his works. I mean to know that one of the main characters is Black was very cool. Especially since I hadn't seen any other fantasy books like this. And to top it all off, it is a pretty good story.

Dreampark by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes - This was a book that explored roleplaying games in the future written years before RPGs were even on computers. Very good read for me since I used to be into the paper and pen roleplaying games.

Abe Sargent

12-14-2004, 10:30 PM

That's a whole bunch of stuff to squeeze into a movie ... goes upstairs to check length ... about 4,000 paperback pages worth. Seems like that'd need a sci-fi miniseries, about 4 hours worth to make it work.

I mean, you could condense a lot of the repitition ("we're good, we're screwed, we're really screwed, we're good, we're really really screwed, etc.") but without it, I don't know if the story gets the very effective use of desperation/frustration that the series built along the way.

End on teh third book, not the fourth and you have cut out 1/4. The entire book 2 and most of book three is tromping through a bajillion worlds in the Net. Just have them not lose the guiding device and everything can end more quickly. Spend an hour of the movie tromping through worlds and you've got the essence right there. Then move on.

-Anxiety

Neon_Chaos

12-14-2004, 10:52 PM

Angels and Demons by Dan Brown.

JonInMiddleGA

12-14-2004, 11:19 PM

Dreampark by Larry Niven and Steven Barnes -

Fantastic suggestion IMO, and one that's seems easily doable. And the story fits pretty neatly into a 2 hour TV slot.

Poli

12-15-2004, 06:19 AM

The Iowa Baseball Confederacy.
Walk-On Quarterback, which inspired my walk on dynasty.

fantastic flying froggies

12-15-2004, 09:52 AM

The Iowa Baseball Confederacy.
Walk-On Quarterback, which inspired my walk on dynasty.
Hell, I'd like to see your dynasty made into a movie...I even think I mentionned it back then...

MikeVic

12-15-2004, 10:10 AM

I just noticed this... but why am I the creator of this thread? I just thought my post somehow came first? But it lists me as the creator.

How exactly is the stuff stored in a database if it doesn't store who started the thread? Just takes the first post and says that they created the thread?

12-15-2004, 10:16 AM

Armor by John Steakley

Karim

12-20-2004, 01:44 AM

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Isaac Asimov's, Foundation Series. It won the Hugo Award as the best sci-fi/fantasy trilogy ever written, beating Tolkien's, Lord of the Rings.

Mr. Wednesday

12-20-2004, 02:29 PM

WussGawd

12-20-2004, 08:07 PM

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Isaac Asimov's, Foundation Series. It won the Hugo Award as the best sci-fi/fantasy trilogy ever written, beating Tolkien's, Lord of the Rings.

I have dreams that once he's done with King Kong, Peter Jackson will get right to it and make Asimov's Foundation series. :)

My other big dream as far as classic s/f was Dune, but Sci-Fi Channels two miniseries did such a good job of it that I'm satisfied.

I have often thought the Clive Cussler Dirk Pitt series would make a good series in the vein of James Bond/Indiana Jones, but Sahara sounds like it may be a dog when it comes out next year (Cussler's washed his hands of it), and he's notoriously fickle about selling the screen rights to his books.

WussGawd

12-20-2004, 08:13 PM

Dola. If they could figure how to deal with the fact its written in first person, Harry Harrison's Stainless Steel Rat series would be cool. Of his other books, Deathworld Trilogy, and the To The Stars Trilogy would be great.

Neon_Chaos

12-20-2004, 09:24 PM

Icon by Frederick Forsythe

WussGawd

12-20-2004, 09:29 PM

Icon by Frederick Forsythe

The premise would need to be updated a bit (after all, Putin has pretty much established a dictatorship there at this point), but this would have been a great one a few years ago. One of the best spy novels I've ever read.

Obscure movie recommendation: Fourth Protocol (Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan). Great adaptation of the Forsythe novel, Caine is wonderful as John Preston (protagonist). Didn't get a lot of press in the states, but it was a wonderful film.

CHEMICAL SOLDIER

12-20-2004, 09:51 PM

I would like to see: Fields of

Neon_Chaos

12-20-2004, 11:36 PM

The premise would need to be updated a bit (after all, Putin has pretty much established a dictatorship there at this point), but this would have been a great one a few years ago. One of the best spy novels I've ever read.

Obscure movie recommendation: Fourth Protocol (Michael Caine, Pierce Brosnan). Great adaptation of the Forsythe novel, Caine is wonderful as John Preston (protagonist). Didn't get a lot of press in the states, but it was a wonderful film.

Well, they could use the recent terrorist attacks in Russia to promote a destabilization in the country, until there is a massive call for reform. Then, a 'savior' candidate rises to challenge Putin in a snap election. Enter the Black Manifesto. :)

CHEMICAL SOLDIER

12-21-2004, 12:12 AM

Fields of Fire could be made into a decent moovie.

WussGawd

12-21-2004, 05:44 AM

Well, they could use the recent terrorist attacks in Russia to promote a destabilization in the country, until there is a massive call for reform. Then, a 'savior' candidate rises to challenge Putin in a snap election. Enter the Black Manifesto. :)

Or set up a scenario like the one in the book. Putin dies with the successor unclear.

Raiders Army

12-21-2004, 06:32 AM

Armor by John Steakley
I didn't know anyone else read this book. :)

Did you read Vampires as well? (much much better than the John Carpenter movie IMHO)

Interesting that he reused the names of the characters in both books.

12-21-2004, 06:33 AM

I didn't know anyone else read this book. :)

Did you read Vampires as well? (much much better than the John Carpenter movie IMHO)

Interesting that he reused the names of the characters in both books.
Vampires is on my to do list to read. :) A friend told me to read Armor after I mentioned to him that I read Starship Troopers. Loved both books.

Kevin

12-21-2004, 06:38 AM

I hope they don't make any decent book into a movie because they are usually huge disappointments. A good book beats a good movie hands down.

Karim

12-21-2004, 05:03 PM

Hugo Award for best SF trilogy ever written? :confused:

I wasn't aware that they went beyond best novel, story, etc. for a single year. What happens when the next trilogy gets finished, do they vote again?I took a look and they gave the series a "special" Hugo Award for best "All-Time" sf trilogy. I'm not sure what that means.

WussGawd

12-21-2004, 07:58 PM

I took a look and they gave the series a "special" Hugo Award for best "All-Time" sf trilogy. I'm not sure what that means.

IIRC, it's probably because the trilogy long predates the Hugo Awards (the original trilogy dates back to the 1950's). Kind of like a lifetime achievement award in the Oscars, of sorts.