Book Reviewed: But Have You Read the Book?: 52 Literary Gems That Inspired Our Favorite Films by Kristen Lopez

Stories that inspired great films This is an eclectic collection of fiction that transpired into great movies on the big screen. The Color Purple, Dr. No, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Little Women, and the Shining are some of the movies discussed in this book is published by the cable channel, the Turner Classic Movies (TCM). The work of giants of American literature like Ernst Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, and Harper Lee inspired successful films, and there were also books that were out of prints for like Bringing Up Baby, and All About Eve. Many directors like Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, Robert Altman, and John Ford converted the book stories into great movies. This book offers an insight into the process of turning a story into a screenplay. Some screenplays remain true with the text upon which it is based, but some don’t mirror its source material. This book takes us behind-the-scenes look at the successful process from the printed page to the big screen. For me as a reader, I have read some of these stories elsewhere and this is simply a summary of what has been written elsewhere on the web.