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1984 for sure, also Fahrenheit 451 and Lord of the Flies. Do children's classics count too? Because I can always go back to A Little Princess or basically any of Roald Dahl's books.

i personally put children's classics in their own category in my mind, but they're definitely considered classics. and roald dahl is awesome. what's your favorite book of his? mine is the witches.

Edited 2014-04-29 23:55 (UTC)

I really love Great Glass Elevator, and I'm really sad that we'll never get a movie version of it. Matilda, Charlie, Witches, and James are all awesome too.

Both movie versions of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory had their charms but also had some HUGE flaws, and i had even bigger problems with the movie versions of James and the Giant Peach (Spiker and Sponge tracked him down? WTF?) and the Fantastic Mr. Fox (the "cuss" bullshit isn't funny. stop it.)
and, no, the problems I just cited aren't my only two problems with those movies.
so I'm kind of relieved there isn't a movie version of Great Glass Elevator. They'd probably have the Vermicious Knids singing and completely eliminate the idiot president and the insane nanny vice president and do who knows what else wrong.

I thought the Tim Burton one was really good. It was pretty accurate other than the added father thing and slightly altered ending. But I thought he got the point of the book and the characters in a way the earlier one didn't. I don't like the Gene Wilder one even though its the classic because I don't think it really gets the book.

Oh man, that's a hard question. The Witches is definitely right up there, but I have a gigantic soft spot for Matilda and The BFG. So I'd say those three sort of swap around for favorites depending on my mood. (At the moment, I think I'm leaning to Matilda, though!)

I saw the movie before reading the book, and finding that the main character originally remains a mouse and therefore will die around the same time as his grandmother was both heartbreaking and consoling as a kid.

I recall being very affected by The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More (especially the swan story), but every time I try to decide between the rest of his kids' books, I remember a great scene from another one... So maybe The Witches wins out for the ending.

A Little Princess was one of my favorite books as a kid. I still love it (and hate both the main movie versions, though a third one exists that is actually close to the book and so much better).

I actually quite like the 1995 film version, despite its gigantic leaps away from the source material; I guess I kind of consider it its own entity? Something about the music and the scenery and the sweet relationship between Sara and Becky really sold me on it.

I've never seen the Shirley Temple one, but I didn't know that another existed! Where could I find that? I'm interested.

http://www.amazon.com/A-Little-Princess-Maureen-Lipman/dp/B001T46T8I/ref=tag_dpp_lp_edpp_ttl_in

This is the one I'm talking about. They've clearly massively upped the price since I bought it a few years ago, but maybe you can find it somewhere else cheeper. It basically follows the plot of the book very closely. It isn't designed to be a blockbuster movie or anything, but as a fan of the book I thought they did a really good job.

Oof, yeah, that's pricy. I'll take a look around and see if I can't find it somewhere else for a more reasonable amount.

Thanks very much for the rec! ♥

I had almost forgotten about how much I hated the movie version I saw. Where the father is miraculously alive at the end.

Plus Sara is not supposed to be blonde.

There are two versions where the father is alive: the old Shirley Temple version and the 1995 one directed by Cuaron. Those are the two well-known versions. The third one very few people have actually heard of.

I didn't know Cuaron did that second version. I wouldn't have thought he would bring the father back too but maybe he was remaking the Shirley Temple one rather than adapting the book.

It seemed like he was adapting the Temple version, anyway. He kept the father thing, took out the romance, and added in the Hindu stuff. But he also changed the setting to America and moved the time period up a little to coincide with WWI.

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