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 Posted: Sat Jun 13, 2009 6:23 am
I loved Wishbone! I would watch it all the time, even when I was in high school.
The southern vampire series is "True Blood" and it's better than the books because I couldn't even get past the first one... it just bored me compared to the other stuff I was reading.
I saw "Blood Ties" but I haven't read the books. My library only has a couple and I want to buy the entire series so I can read it in order.
I saw "Harry Dresden" and I started reading the books. I agree, the series didn't live up to the greatness of the books, but I think they were just trying to reach a wider audience. However, the cop is way off.
I watched "Women's Murder Club", but never read that particular series. I read two books out of Patterson's Alex Cross series... "Along Came a Spider" and "Kiss the Girls." Those movies definitely didn't live up to the books.
They made a series of the "Sword of Truth" novels, recently... but it was released on one of those hard-to-find networks and I only saw a couple of random episodes in the middle... I haven't read the series yet (I'm still missing the first book, but I have the next four or five, lol,) but I have no doubt the books are better. The series is like a Xena/Hercules knock off... but not quite as cool. I guess they had a low budget.
"Mists of Avalon" was turned into a miniseries that was good, but could have been better.
I tried to read the "Gossip Girl" books but found the series was nothing like them at all... which figures since it's aimed at a wider audience... teens and adults.
All in all, we can't really expect any adaptions of books to live up to the original. It just doesn't happen.
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Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2009 11:52 am
The show, "Legend of the seeker" is based on a series of fantasy novels called "The Sword of Truth." though I haven't had a chance to watch the show so I honestly don't know how it compares to the books
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 4:17 am
GirlPuck Darth_Magus1 the Sherlock Holmes series with Jeremy Brett was great..just trying to find it on dvd.
Edit: I just thought of another television series, based on the characters in a series of crime dectective books by Caroline Gramham called the Chief Inspector Barnaby series. As a television series it is called Midsomer Murders, and originally aired on British tv. Although I haven't read or seen any of the books, the shows are quite marvelous. Most are simply based on the characters of the novels, although a few of the actual novels have been adapted. They seem to be doing rather well with the series too: since it started in 1997, and continues to air new seasons.
Second edit: It seems that British television does a lot of adaptations from novels. Another series from BBC Scotland called Hamish MacBeth is based on a series of novels by the same name, written by Marion Chesney under the pseudonym M. C. Beaton. Again I have not read the books (although I do want to), but the series was excellant. It starred Robert Carlyle in the lead role, which just made it so much better to me. heart It was a shorter lived series (only three seasons - I'm not really sure of the reasons), but good all the same.I love that adaptation of Sherlock Holmes. biggrin Actually a lot of the BBC detectives are book adaptations. Inspector Morse, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, A Touch of Frost and of course the brilliant Poirot with David Suchet and Miss Marple with Joan Hickson. heart The BBC also did an adaptation of the Hitchhikers Guid to the Galaxy, which was pretty good. I like the fact that the old Marvin was given a cammio (sp?) in the new film. Personally I'm looking forward to the new adaptation of Hamlet with David Tennant and Patrick Steward. No idea when that'll be on tv though.
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Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 1:00 pm
Would a show of Hamlet really be considered an adaptation, since it was intended to be performed anyway?
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Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 4:16 am
OliviaFalconer Would a show of Hamlet really be considered an adaptation, since it was intended to be performed anyway? You know I actually forgot that it was originally a play. So many people talk about reading Shakespeare nowadays, I've come to think of them as books rather than plays. >.<
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Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 9:14 pm
I enjoy my favorite series "Vampire Diaries" being adapted. =)
As well as The Magic school bus, Wishbone, Goosebumps, and some others I can't think of at the second.
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