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* Most of [[John Grisham]]'s early novels have been made into films by this point, with varying degrees of success. Even the novel that Grisham said he would never option for film ([[A Time to Kill]]) was made into a movie... a fairly good one at that. It helps that Grisham's novels are essentially beach-read page-turners.
* ''Never Let Me Go'', based on the book of the same name by Kazuo Ishiguro, kept the majority of the plot intact, as well as pulling off spot-on portrayals of the three main characters.
* [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1066120-scarlet_letter/ Several] [http://www.rinkworks.com/badmovie/reader/43.shtml reviewers] [https://web.archive.org/web/20160817133618/http://www.hit-n-run.com/cgi/read_review.cgi?review=40461_wyldfyr note] [http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/Movies/9510/scarlet_letter/review/index.html that] [[They Just Didn't Care]] for ''[[The Scarlet Letter]]''. This was mocked in ''[[Easy A]]'', in reference to English students watching the film adaptations of their required reading in lieu of doing the actual reading.
* ''[[No Country for Old Men]]'' by the Coen Brothers is a very rare example of a film that's even better than the book it was based off of. And the book is pretty damn good.
* ''[[Mysterious Skin]]'' is considered another rare success: It is both faithful to the book, and it presents the difficult subject matter with consideration instead of [[Anvilicious|shoving it into the viewer's face]].
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