{"id":1419254,"date":"2022-05-17T09:42:07","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T13:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/?p=1419254"},"modified":"2022-05-17T09:42:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T13:42:08","slug":"5-incredible-books-that-would-make-terrible-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/5-incredible-books-that-would-make-terrible-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Incredible Books That Would Make Terrible Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/82719unfilmmablemoviesMAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m all for turning books into movies. Of course it&#8217;s best when the movie turns out well, but it&#8217;s also a lot of fun when the movie sucks and you get to be filled with a righteous, all-consuming fury. Win-win!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However! There are some books that filmmakers just shouldn&#8217;t touch. As much joy as I get out of furiously texting \u201cAND ANOTHER THING\u201d in the group chat as I rail against whatever movie I&#8217;m currently mad about, it simply isn&#8217;t <em>sporting<\/em> to get mad about one that was never going to be good in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following books are extremely good, but would make for terrible movies. And if I&#8217;m wrong\u2014if in ten years some visionary turns any of them into movies and it&#8217;s somehow not the worst thing in the world\u2014I&#8217;ll take it all back. I&#8217;ll pretend I never said any of it, and don&#8217;t you guys <em>dare<\/em> rat me out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m all for turning books into movies. Of course it&#8217;s best when the movie turns out well, but it&#8217;s also a lot of fun when the movie sucks and you get to be filled with   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[5076,438,628,25017,767],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419254"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1419255,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419254\/revisions\/1419255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}