Bad Books, Good Movies

[ER]

The Ice Storm
The Virgin Suicides
The Bridges of Madison County
1984
Carrie

[RCMerchant]

Mein Kampf- bad book.

[Allhallowsday]

Rita Hayworth And The Shawshank Redemption : compared to the movie, a bad book. 

[Alex]

Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice.
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein.

Both films I considered to be way better than their source material.

[ER]

Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice.
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein.

Both films I considered to be way better than their source material.

Agree on Starship Troopers, disagree on Interview with a Vampire, but I swear, the fact it's basically a gay novel went over my head for about a decade after I read it.

[Allhallowsday]

Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice.
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein.

Both films I considered to be way better than their source material.

That's INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE which I think was a good book, and a damned silly movie. 

STARSHIP TROOPERS is a good movie... but I didn't read the book. 

[ER]

Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice.
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein.

Both films I considered to be way better than their source material.

That's INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE which I think was a good book, and a damned silly movie. 

STARSHIP TROOPERS is a good movie... but I didn't read the book. 

(Yes, but I was too polite to correct Alex.)

[RCMerchant]

STARSHIP TROOPERS by Heinlen is...I dunno. Sexist- all women are half naked and always described in drooling detail.  And it seems pro war. It hasn't aged well. It's a product of it's time, I guess.

I have seen the movie, of course. It's better.

[Sitting Duck]

disagree on Interview with a Vampire, but I swear, the fact it's basically a gay novel went over my head for about a decade after I read it.

If it makes you feel better, I experienced similar cluelessness about Baron Harkonnen's sexual orientation when I first read Dune.

[ER]

The Godfather. Pulp fiction turned into great cinema.

[RCMerchant]

The Godfather. Pulp fiction turned into great cinema.

What's wrong with pulp fiction?  And the Godfather is a good book. It ain't Byron- but Byron is boring.
I'd rather read pulp than most classics. Lovecraft is pulp fiction.

FRANKENSTIEN is a boring book. So is DRACULA.

[ER]

Most pulp fiction is s**t. For every Lovecraft tale you'll find a thousand bad stories. It's just that the good pulp writers have been celebrated to the point it convinces people pulp fiction is a lot better than it is.

[Alex]

Stephen King once described my favourite author as being a pulp writer. For myself I've always thought his horror stories were better written than Mr King's. I've just started reading his final novel, something I've resisted doing since he died as I know once I read it, that's it, no more new James Herbert stuff to read.

[pacman000]

I enjoyed Frankenstein. Couldn't get into Dracula. (The Books.)

Pulp writings may be bad, but they're usually a fun sorta bad.