I just finished Cell by Stephen King (the first book of his I've read in over a decade). I nominate that one.
The Corrections (I'm shocked this hasn't happened already) Journey to the End of the Night - Celine The Good Earth - Pearl Buck Sabbath's Theater - Roth
any of Pratchett's Discworld books would be great and Good Omens I think would be a cool movie, think The Omen, but Pratchettized.
The Comedy Writer by Peter Farrelly awesome book. Although watch out where you read it, people might think you are psycho b/c you will be laughing out loud
isnt' that being made into a movie? i thought i heard something about it. even it it is, i'm on the side that it'll suck. On March 8, 2006, Ain't It Cool News announced that Dimension Films have bought the film rights to the book and will produce a film directed by Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever) for a 2007 release. Says Roth about his approach to the film: I ****ing LOVE that book. Such a smart take on the zombie movie. I am so psyched to do it. I think you can really do almost a cross between the Dawn of the Dead remake with a 'Roland Emmerich' approach (for lack of a better reference) where you show it happening all over the world. When the pulse hits, I wanna see it hit EVERYWHERE. In restaurants, in movie theaters, at sports events, all the places that people drive you crazy when they're talking on their cell phones. I see total armageddon. People going crazy killing each other - everyone at once - all over the world. Cars smashing into each other, people getting stabbed, throats getting ripped out. The one thing I always wanted to see in zombie movies is the actual moment the plague hits, and not just in one spot, but everywhere. You usually get flashes of it happening around the world on news broadcasts, but you never actually get to experience it happening everywhere. Then as the phone crazies start to change and mutate, the story gets pared down to a story about human survival in the post-apocalyptic world ruled by phone crazies. I'm so excited, I wish the script was ready right now so I could start production. But it'll get written (or at least a draft will) while I'm doing Hostel 2, and then I can go right into it. It should feel like an ultra-violent event movie.[2]
Ender's Game Hyperion (as well as the rest of the books) Angels and Demons Ringworld (which Halo ripped off for their, ahem, "ring-shaped Halo installations") And oh, BTW, I liked Cell, but I didn't care for the ending.
Foucault's Pendulum. Man, someone like Chris Nolan (Memento, The Prestige) would just knock that **** out of the park.
When the DaVinci Code movie came out and more or less sucked (so I've heard -- I haven't seen more than 10 minutes of it), I said to myself, Self, if they want to make a religious conspiracy movie, with the Rosticrucians or whatever, shouldn't they start with a good book like Foucault's Pendulum? Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Garcia Marquez would make a cool movie.
I am scared that any books I like that get made into movies won't match up. But I feel that some of Cormac McCarthy's books might make some good cinema. George RR Martin's A Game of Thrones might be great to see as well.
