The Book is always better than the movie. That's a popular saying, but let's be honest, there are a few exceptions, and that's something a bibliophile hardly ever admit out loud. So, if you happen to agree with me, you should check out this list of my picks of some films that turned out to be better than the book they're based on.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald | Fiction Classics
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In 1922, F. Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new, something extraordinary and beautiful and simple + intricately patterned." That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately patterned, and above all, simple novel became The Great Gatsby, arguably Fitzgerald's finest work and certainly the book for which he is best known. A portrait of the Jazz Age in all of its decadence and excess, Gatsby captured the spirit of the author's generation and earned itself a permanent place in American mythology. Self-made, self-invented millionaire Jay Gatsby embodies some of Fitzgerald's--and his country's--most abiding obsessions: money, ambition, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year recedes before us. It
Frances Hodgson Burnett | Children's Classics
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Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's School in London, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.
Lewis Carroll | Children's Classics
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In this classic by Lewis Carroll little Alice experiences countless adventures in Wonderland. Download it today!
Lewis Carroll [Charles Dodgson] | Children's Classics
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When Through the Looking Glass was published in 1871 as a sequel to the previous masterpiece, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland readers were as delighted with that book as they were with Lewis Carroll's previous volume. In the topsy-turvy world that lies beyond the looking-glass, Alice meets such fantastical characters as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Humpty Dumpty, and the Jabberwocky Dragon. Before she knows it she is whisked into the strangest and most highly complex world of giant chess games, jumping trains, bread and butter-flies and a sinister tureen of soup.
Jane Austen | Romance Classics
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Elinor and Marianne are sister. Elinor is a sensible, rational girl while her younger sister is wildly romantic.
Herbert George Wells | Sci-Fi Classics
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in 1899, a scientist builds a time machine that can transport him to the future where he meets both good and evil beings.
H. G. Wells | Misc Classics
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The classic book, The War of the Worlds, by H. G. Wells.
James Fenimore Cooper | Fiction Classics
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During the French and Indian War, half-sisters, Cora and Alice, are rescued by a Hawkeye who leads them to the safety of the last of his tribe, the Mohican Uncas.
