>>Now two movies I can think of that were as good as the books but obviously due to different mediums, for different reasons:
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>>One Flew Over the Cukoo's nest. and Catch 22.
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>Two books I plan to read some day. The movies are cult by now. Though, the Nest is pretty much a documentary.

After (or before) you read Cuckoos Nest read 'Sometimes a great notion'....