novelizations

This is my favorite thing in the whole world:

(spacesick, via new shelton)

Part of what I like about it is that I've always fantasized about doing a "real" novelization of some big Hollywood movie—like doing Beverly Hills Cop but making it high literature, like really really good.  Another part is the same thing—whatever it might be—that made me sort of freak out when I found this book in a Paris bookstore:

I hadn't realized that the movie had been based on a novel, and after reading the novel I was basically just confused—because the novel and the movie are pretty much exactly the same, and I just had no idea whether it was that everything good about the movie was from the book (i.e., it's just a very very faithful adaptation) or that the movie made a flat book come to life (i.e., it's just great acting and direction).  I concluded it was impossible to tell: I was just too familiar with the film to see the book straight.  (Sorry, Charlie.)

The unifying factor between those two reasons (literary novelization, surprise source material) is: I really want to read those novels!  My requests, by the way, Spacesick, are: Brewster's Millions and Revenge of the Nerds.  Go!