this is what happens when I have no chocolate

[lauralh]

I finished The Secret History last night, which is about a group of eccentric Classics students who try to reproduce a bacchanalia and succeed so well they kill a man. And then what they have to do to cover it up. It's amazingly bad - it's supposed to take place in the late 80s but you couldn't tell until one of the characters mentions "slam-dancing." And of course the requisite "bad novel, just add incest." I mean, the story is really about the narrator trying to fit in with these misfits, and all the murder stuff just kind of gets in the way. Totally melodramatic but would "make a great movie."

Comments

[asiangoddess4.livejournal.com]

so bad books can make good movies. hmm I what examples are there of bad books turning into good movies....

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382625/

[perich.livejournal.com]

The Godfather

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

that was actually a pitch turned book turned movie.

[perich.livejournal.com]

Shows what I know ... except that the novel isn't as good as the movie, which I knew already.