Happy Birthday! I love sci-fi.

wonder how the Foundation movie will turn out. in my opinion, it's not for the movies. don't get me wrong, i wish them the best, just don't want to see a lame movie adopted from such a great book(s).

by the way:
name a movie which was better then the book it was adopted from (in other words, the book was first then the movie and the movie is better)

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The second instance of science fiction ever committed, to date, is the 1969 purported moon landing.

I am Legend, the one with Will Smith is way better than the book. Don't know if this counts as the book is only a short story, but I though the movie was ten times better.

The Princess Bride written by S.Morgenstern.

DO NOT READ. The chapter in which the princess who humperdink was supposed to marry is especially awful. In this chapter she packs hats. Lots of hats. Hats for rain, hats for sun, hats for when it's raining and the sun is out. After a full chapter of packing (and unpacking) hats she finally has dinner with the prince.

A stiff breeze blows through, the candles get blown out, but before they do... the princess of Gelder LOSES her hat and upon seeing the princesses bald head Humperdink says the words that almost drive them to war.. "Madam, feel free to flee!"

I can't make this stuff up. There really is a chapter devoted to hats. (Removed from Movie version.)

Some of the other bits were interesting, like the backstory on Inigo and Fezzik (It actually explains why he was unemployed in Greenland.). Other than that, I'm glad that the movie came out... Also glad that they didn't include Inigo squeezing rocks (another exerpt from the book).

You're kidding, right?

Immediately springing to mind are Dracula and Wuthering Heights.

I know it's heresy to say, but both of these books are interminably dull, badly written and would, I'd venture, be long forgotten if it weren't for the various celluloid treatments that have held the attention better.

The Naked Lunch on a similar level gives a coherence and a sense of narrative progression to what in book form is a series of disjointed vignettes.

As for good books improved by filming, get hold of a copy of Different Seasons by Stephen King. From that read The Body and Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption then watch Stand By Me and Shawshank Redemption.

It's a close run thing as to whether Shawshank is better as a book or a film. I'd favour film, but that is tempered by my reaction to the film knowing the book. If I hadn't known how the story would turn out then I'd not have enjoyed it in the same way.

The Body is a great story in and of itself, but Stand By Me tells the same story in a much greater way.