Book review of But Have You Read the Book? by Kristen Lopez

For a literary spin on the motion pictures, there’s But Have You Read the Book?, a compendium of 52 tales taken from print to display. You gained’t be shocked to find titles comparable to To Kill a Mockingbird and Blade Runner right here, however do you know Jaws was first a ebook? Goodfellas? The Social Network?

Author Kristen Lopez succinctly parses variations between the variations of every story, declaring actor credit and field workplace details for the motion pictures and themes explored in the books. Rarely are the ebook and movie notably related; in the case of No Country for Old Men, Lopez writes that the Coen brothers “brought their patented blend of dark humor to [Cormac] McCarthy’s wild Texas landscape, transforming the book from a noirish, cynical take on the degradation of the country post-Vietnam into a melancholic look at the Western genre.”

So is But Have You Read the Book? for movie buffs or ebook nerds? Both, I suppose, with its candy spot in the Venn diagram overlap of the two.