This year is a big year for book adaptions, and I can’t wait until they start hitting the theaters. Huffington Post published a slideshow of their top 10 book-to-movie adaptions that will be released in 2012, and I agree with a lot of them. I’ve posted my favourites from their picks, as well as my own picks.
Their Picks:
My Picks:
* The movie version of The Borrowers is actually called The Secret World of Arrietty. *
Which ones are you looking forward to?
Which one of these ten banned books have you read, and do you really think there was a legitimate reason for the book to be banned?
I’ve read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. I absolutely love Brave New World — it was inventive, interesting and had a really great plot. We had to read it in Grade 11 and I finished far earlier than everyone else. I understand why it was banned, because it covered a lot of topics that people would find inappropriate. But even with the mature subject matter, I still enjoyed it. The Grapes of Wrath, on the other hand, was a really difficult book for me to go through. I found it so dry in Grade 12, and I ended up “dozing off” at most parts of it. So I can’t really say if I agree with its banning, because I don’t even remember most of the book anymore. I want to read it again, but when I’ve got nothing better to do and when I have a better feeling about it.
