# What book would you make into a movie?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 17, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187 "2008-11-17T22:09:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/121 "2008-11-29T22:31:40Z")

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**Rendezvous With Rama** by Arthur Clarke

**Stranger In A Strange Land** , **The Number Of The Beast** , and **The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress** by Heinlein

Lawrence Block’s Matt Scudder novels

Donald Westlake’s (writing as Richard Stark) Parker novels

**Replay** by Ken Grimwood

**You Gotta Play Hurt** by Dan Jenkins

**Lucifer’s Hammer** by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle

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**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2008, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/122 "2008-11-29T23:17:07Z")

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**The Kraken Wakes** , by John Wyndham.

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**Author:** ![not\_alice](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_alice/32/7283_2.png) [@not\_alice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_alice)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2008, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-book-would-you-make-into-a-movie/473187/123 "2008-12-01T03:25:20Z")

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Tender as Hellfire by Joe Meno

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