Colorful rockets on the cover for Gravity's Rainbow, written by Thomas Pynchon
It is a truth universally acknowledged that if a novel finds critical acclaim and/or general popularity, someone will find themselves keen to adapt it into a movie. Many of the best films of all time have been adapted from works of literature, after all, and enough so that there are two screenplay awards given out at the Oscars, for example: one for original screenplay, and the other for adapted screenplay .
9 'The Catcher in the Rye' Author: J. D. Salinger Unlike some other novels that will probably never receive a film adaptation, The Catcher in the Rye could well receive an adaptation fairly easily. It’s not a lengthy story, and centers on one central character, Holden Caulfield, a troubled young man who details his life and the sorts of things he thinks about, not to mention feels frustrated by, within the world he lives in.
7 'Infinite Jest' Author: David Foster Wallace Oh yeah, that’s another thing about House of Leaves: there’s enough content in the footnotes for pretty much an entire separate novel, and the same can be said about Infinite Jest. In fact, the footnotes here might well be even more extensive and necessary for the experience of reading what’s already a gargantuan book. It’s over 900 pages without considering the footnotes, and over 1000 pages with the footnotes.
5 'Maus' Author: Art Spiegelman Making either a feature film or a documentary about the Holocaust is always risky, and has to be done with a great degree of care, given how monumentally devastating it was as a historical event. Steven Spielberg’sSchindler’s List largely succeeds, though even then, it isn’t without its critics. The definitive story about the event, however, might well be the graphic novel, Maus.
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