**WINNER ANNOUNCED** 3 Books To Read Before they Hit the Movies plus Gone Girl Giveaway
By Michael –
WINNER ANNOUNCED
Many thanks to everyone for your comments. The winner this time is Rajeev for
his answer ‘Fight Club’. What a great novel!
Please direct message the Mighty Ape
Books Facebook page Rajeev and I can grab your details :)
https://www.facebook.com/MightyApeBooks
We always like to keep up with books as they are adapted to the 2nd biggest screen (the real big screen is in your head of course!).
There are some huge movies gaining buzz at the moment that are worth exploring on the page first. Check out the trailers below for a taste of what the books offer.
1. Gone Girl
THE ADDICTIVE No.1 BESTSELLER THAT EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT Who are you? What have we done to each other? These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?
2. The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
The international publishing sensation–over six million copies sold worldwide! A reluctant centenarian much like Forrest Gump (if Gump were an explosives expert with a fondness for vodka) decides it's not too late to start over . . . After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health, and in one day, he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn't interested (and he'd like a bit more control over his vodka consumption). So he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey, involving, among other surprises, a suitcase stuffed with cash, some unpleasant criminals, a friendly hot-dog stand operator, and an elephant (not to mention a death by elephant). It would be the adventure of a lifetime for anyone else, but Allan has a larger-than-life backstory: Not only has he witnessed some of the most important events of the twentieth century, but he has actually played a key role in them.
3. The Giver
In a perfect world, Jonas begins to see the flaws…THE GIVER is the classic award-winning novel that inspired the dystopian genre and a major motion picture adaptation for 2014 starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift. It is the future. There is no war, no hunger, no pain. No one in the community wants for anything. Everything needed is provided. And at twelve years old, each member of the community has their profession carefully chosen for them by the Committee of Elders. Twelve-year old Jonas has never thought there was anything wrong with his world. But from the moment he is selected as the Receiver of Memory, Jonas discovers that their community is not as perfect as it seems. It is only with the help of the Giver, that Jonas can find what has been lost. And it is only through his personal courage that Jonas finds the strength to do what is right…The Giver is the award-winning classic of bravery and adventure that has inspired countless dystopian writers as the forerunner of this genre.
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I am excited to see what Fincher does with Gone Girl and the trailer has prompted me to grab the book.
I also have one copy of Gone Girl to give away. Just let me know your favourite novel-to-movie adaptation in the comments below. I'll pick one winner on 25th October.
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Drive
To Kill a Mockingbird
divergent
Stand by Me
The Hunger Games
The Fault in our Stars
The Lord of the Rings trilogy!
divergent! my favourite book & movie. I hope insurgent is just as good :)
The extended versions of the Lord of the Rings trilogy.
The Lovely Bones. One of those riveting reads!
The book thief - both had me in tears, brilliant!
The hobbit (:
Jurassic Park
Trainspotting
American Psycho
The Hunger Games. It has Jennifer Lawerence in it haha :D
Lord of the Rings - the movies are a lot easier to sit through than ploughing through the book!
Time travellers wife
My favourite novel-to-movie adaptation is none other than Harry Potter! The boy who lived!
The Princess Bride!
Fight Club