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[–] Kn1ghtShade@midwest.social 1 points 3 months ago

Damsel.

When I heard about the Netflix movie I initially thought it was an adaptation of the book...

At this point, I want a movie adaptation just out of spite to see how much better it would be than the complete trash that netflix thought would make a good original story. I do highly recommend the book, too.

[–] dingus182@endlesstalk.org 1 points 3 months ago

"Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates" by Tom Robbins. I always thought Phillip Seymour Hoffman would be the perfect protagonist.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Deserves? Not sure, but I feel like Gideon will get one. It seems pretty popular.

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[–] YaksDC@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks.

He is a little fucking nuts but the book is fun.

[–] psion1369@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

The Grand Tour novels from Ben Bova. All about mankinds spread into the solar system. There are some anachronisms here and there that would need to be ironed out, and plenty of continuity errors to fix, but overall a very exciting series of stories.

[–] Terrapinjoe@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

V. E. Schwab - the Invisible Life of Adie LaRue would be amazing. Classic cursed immortal living through the ages, but without vampires!

[–] Psymonkee@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six. Could be a fun mini series to adapt. The video game never grabbed me though.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 1 points 3 months ago

Fritz Leiber's short story "A Pail of Air".

This story portrays the effects of the most terrifying natural calamity I have ever encountered in fiction: Earth being ejected from the solar system. In any other disaster there's still hope because even though humanity might die out, life on Earth would eventually recover. Not so in this case. Without the Sun we're fucked. Even the air freezes (hence the title).

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago

Slightly off topic, but the latest episode of the What Went Wrong podcast is about the adaptation of American Psycho from novel to film and I'm quite enjoying it.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 3 months ago

Karsa Orlong would say: Witness.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

A book called The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll.

[–] Itrytoblenderrender@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Transmetropolitan

[–] Preacher@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser series by Fritz Leiber

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