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The film surpassed the book

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Rank Title Author Added

1

38,274 members

506 reviews

4.1

2 Members: hipdeep, bluepiano
Explanations: bluepiano: I've no inclination whatsoever to re-read Emma; I wouldn't mind watching Clueless again, though

2

by Stephen King

23,318 members

453 reviews

4.1

Member: bluepiano
Explanations: bluepiano: Didn't finish the book as it bored me so; film was anything but boring.

3

6,371 members

254 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

4

Planet of the Apes

by Pierre Boulle

2,816 members

73 reviews

3.8

Member: longway
Explanations: longway: Film directed by Franklin Schaffner (1968)

5

35,725 members

630 reviews

4

Member: bluepiano
Explanations: bluepiano: Nosferatu wins hands down over the book, which begins to drag when the characters return to England.

6

The Last of the Mohicans

by James Fenimore Cooper

13,298 members

125 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: hipdeep

7

by Peter Benchley

4,053 members

148 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: longway
Explanations: longway: Film directed by Steven Spielberg

8

11,049 members

184 reviews

4.2

Member: longway
Explanations: longway: Film directed by Francis Ford Coppola

9

by Mary Shelley

42,970 members

714 reviews

3.8

Member: hipdeep

10

The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

12,607 members

140 reviews

4.1

Member: longway
Explanations: longway: Film directed by Jonathan Demme

11

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

by Philip K. Dick

19,428 members

476 reviews

4

Member: longway
Explanations: longway: Film directed by Ridley Scott

12

by Percival Christopher Wren

1,005 members

26 reviews

3.9

Member: longway

13

344 members

14 reviews

4.1

Member: longway
Explanations: longway: Film directed by John Ford

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Started: longway
November 2015
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