>>The UPS guy was just by to deliver a copy of "Bright Lights, Big City" by Jay McInerney, which I ordered on a whim this week to reread. ($2.68 used from Amazon -- can't beat it with a stick). The cover photo is of Michael J. Fox in the movie version, which was in my opinion dreck. It got me thinking it might be a fun, non-combative thread to list books that were better than the movies made from them, and the other way around.
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>>Two starters --
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>>"Bright Lights, Big City" by Jay McInerney -- book better
>>"The Godfather" by Mario Puzo -- movie better
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>I mentioned it to Dragan further down, but for me 2 movies that rivalled the books even though they were changed some due to being in a different medium were "One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest" and "Catch 22".

"Cuckoo's Nest" is one of my very favorite movies. It has about a hundred classic scenes and was one of only three movies to sweep the five major Academy Awards. ("It Happened One Night" and "The Silence of the Lambs" are the others).