# Name a book you think would work best as an animated movie or tv series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [March 15, 2026, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467 "2026-03-15T23:38:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/21 "2026-03-16T20:36:39Z")
Jonathan Lethem’s **Gun, with Occasional Music** could work as a Roger Rabbit-style live-action film with animation for the “evolved animals” and “babyheads.” ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2026, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/22 "2026-03-16T21:40:44Z")
An animated One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest featuring the narrator Bromden’s hallucinations is something I’ve long waited for. One day I will have it. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/23 "2026-03-17T01:02:58Z")
Just having the hallucinations themselves would be cheaper. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/24 "2026-03-17T01:16:57Z")
That seems interesting, I’ll pick it up because I have a number of Amazon digital credits. Plus my 13 going on 30 niece might enjoy it, she’s into “Fantasy/Faerie Smut”. And yes, that’s the term my sister-in-law used to describe her habits and approval. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/25 "2026-03-17T02:00:21Z")
Ask her if she follows Jaysea’s “Hell’s Belles” series on the interwebs, where Jaysea plays all the characters herself. The book is a sort of sequel. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/26 "2026-03-17T02:02:47Z")
Well, it’s not like replying to her Uncle 'Lines is a big priority, so I’ll have to wait until she gets around to it. I’m always waiting on a follow up about the new cat (pics!) introduced into their previously dog-only household. My mother (her grandmother) ratted her out. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/27 "2026-03-17T17:34:05Z")
I must confess that one reason I’d like to see a _FWTBT_ movie is curiosity about the “weird space fish” in _Invaders_ (as well as the game itself). ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/28 "2026-03-17T19:30:04Z")
All I’ve got is _Slaughterhouse 5_. It didn’t really work for me in narrative form, it’s weird and surreal and jumps around in time. I could see animation leaning into that, making it more experiential. I’d seriously watch that. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/29 "2026-03-17T22:52:40Z")
Larry Niven’s Gil Hamilton stories, done in the style of the “Harry Canyon” sequence of _Heavy Metal._ “The Eye of Argon”, done in the style of Alejandro Jodorowsky. Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Mars, Venus, and Earth’s Core series. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2026, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/30 "2026-03-17T23:08:25Z")
Two YA series= The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia Wrede. And the Crestomanci series by Diana Wynn-Jones. And the Dark is Rising film (The Seeker) was bad, maybe better as a TV series. Done by the same people who did Good Omens? ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2026, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/31 "2026-03-18T04:26:14Z")
My first thoughts also go to SF, and the are many contenders, but something not SF to go against the grain: George Saunders _Lincoln in the Bardo._ Ghosts and liminality … animation would serve it much better than live action. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2026, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/32 "2026-03-18T12:21:52Z")
There is always _Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator_… ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Sponge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dark_sponge/32/121_2.png) [@Dark\_Sponge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Sponge)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2026, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/33 "2026-03-18T16:07:40Z")
I liked both the book and the movie but I’d also like to see this. Steins Gate, an anime, is my favorite time travel story. I think it’s the plucky group using what is comparatively technological garbage to try to save everyone from the most advanced corporation in the history of the world. I can’t imagine it being half as good as a live action series. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2026, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/34 "2026-03-18T16:22:02Z")
The Malazan book of the fallen would only ever work as an animated show. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/35 "2026-03-22T02:03:56Z")
Incarnations of Immortality is an eight-book fantasy series by Piers Anthony. That would be a good 8 season animated series. Or even live action in the style of Sandman. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2026, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/36 "2026-03-22T22:39:08Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > Incarnations of Immortality is an eight-book fantasy series by Piers Anthony. Of which the first and maybe the 2nd are decent. The last ones, especially are Piers Anthony later writings drek. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/37 "2026-03-23T12:28:21Z")
I have longed for something approaching a faithful adaptation of Mark Twain’s _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court_ for ages’ There hasn’t been one yet – two of the movie adaptations were vehicles or the stars (Will Rogers and Bing Crosby, but still….). The others were generally far removed from Twain’s book, especially the animated adaptations. Yes, I know about the issue of the way the Catholic Church is portrsayed. It’s not show-stopper. You can write around a lot of it. Dammit, I want to see the Destruction of Merlin’s Tower, and the Restoration of the Holy Fountain, with all the special effects. I want to see The Boss and The King rescued by a troop of armored knights riding bicycles. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/38 "2026-03-23T20:23:04Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > I have longed for something approaching a faithful adaptation of Mark Twain’s _A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court_ for ages’ The ending would depress a hyena. Twain was in one of his black moods then. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2026, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/39 "2026-03-23T20:40:54Z")
Castle Hangnail by Ursula Vernon. It would work best as an animated movie, I think, although they’d have to cut some characters and simplify the plot. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2026, 11:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467/40 "2026-03-24T11:28:31Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > The ending would depress a hyena. Twain was in one of his black moods then. … but not in the deep depression of his old age, as many seem to think. He was 54 when ACYiKAC came out. He was living a happy life in Hartford and summering at Quarry Farm then, But even with th depressing ending it’d make a great film. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/name-a-book-you-think-would-work-best-as-an-animated-movie-or-tv-series/1028467.md?page=3)