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What's the most 'unfilmable' book you've ever read, /lit/?

>> No.3524061

The Waves

Mostly cus a film of it would be fucking boring.

>> No.3524067
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3524067

The Dictionary

>> No.3524068

Gravity's Rainbow, as long as we're talking about books that aren't James Joyce babble

>> No.3524074

>>3524068
Both Finnegans Wake and Ulysses have film adaptations anyway

>> No.3524077

>>3524074
whoops @_@

>> No.3524152

Haven't finished it yet but I would say Infinite Jest. Hardly anything that makes this book interesting can be implemented in a film.

>> No.3524202

>>3524074
Wow, I hope Finnegans Wake is some avant-garde 2deep4u stuff, or I'll be disappointed.

>> No.3524214

Flatland.

That would be seriously shit, even as a Disney Pixar animation.

>> No.3524220

>>3524054

I don't have any paper so shut up.

>> No.3524221

>>3524067
You're not supposed to read that.
Holy shit that must have been boring.

The answer is any educational book.

>> No.3524227

Johnny Got His Gun

It's about a soldier who loses all his limbs, his mouth, his nose, his eyes, and goes deaf. It's told entirely through his thoughts and memories.

Funny thing is, there's already a movie for it.

>> No.3524241

>>3524227
>Johnny Got His Gun

Isn't it Janie?

>> No.3524245

>>3524227
not too hard to imagine filmatised.

>> No.3524469

>>3524152
I think there was a full theater production of it at some time. Here's an article about it: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2012/06/infinite_jest_on_stage_berlin_theater_adaptation_of_david_foster_wallace_s_novel_.html

There's also this music video that depicts Eschaton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJpfK7l404I

>> No.3524489

>>3524227

metallica's music video for "one" used that movie hahahaha

was the book actually good?

>> No.3524639

A film adaptation of The Making of Americans would end cinema as we know it.

>> No.3524666

A Hundred Years of Solitude

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3524760

How can one dog look so much like snoop dogg

>> No.3524864

>>3524469
Yeah, I know but this thing lasted 24 hours and I doubt that it was able to convey the messages nearly as well as the book. To me it looks more like an artistic experiment.
Would have been nice to see however, especially given that I'm German.

>> No.3524912

Infinite Jest

>> No.3525487

>>3524666

Jesus christ, Satan, I was thinking the other day about how hard it would be for Hundred Years to be turned into a film, and then I see this thread, and then I see your post before I can post about it myself. Fucking magics.

>> No.3526323

The Weaver of Crowns

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>>3524214
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland:_The_Movie
Hehehehehehe

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3526365

Catcher in the Rye

>> No.3526369

The Qu'ran

>> No.3526399

The Old man and the sea