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RE: The Empire Literature Top 100 - 26/2/2013 11:13:39 PM   
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 10. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (1843) Novel



Plot: An old miser is visited by ghosts who try to convince him of the error of his ways

Adapted: So many times. With Alastair Sim, Bill Murray, The Muppets, in animated form, pretty much every format you can think of.

From the Text: “I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”

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RE: The Empire Literature Top 100 - 26/2/2013 11:20:53 PM   
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 9. A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess (1962) Novel



Plot: Alex and his Droogs lead a life of ultra-violence and the old in-out.

Adapted: Kubrick.

From the Text: “Well, well, well, well. If it isn't fat, stinking billygoat Billy-Boy in poison. How art thou, thy globby bottle of cheap, stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly thou.”

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RE: The Empire Literature Top 100 - 26/2/2013 11:29:44 PM   
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 8. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald (1922) Novel



Plot: Nick Carraway finds himself falling into the world of the mysterious Jay Gatsby.

Adapted: The most famous version so far had Redford as Gatsby, a new version is due this with Leonardo DiCaprio

From the Text: “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”

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I would plough my way through MonsterCat



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I desire MonsterCat to go down on me.

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RE: The Empire Literature Top 100 - 26/2/2013 11:35:45 PM   
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 7. Watchmen - Alan Moore (1986) Graphic Novel



Plot: Years after superheros are made outlaws, a former Watchmen member, The Comedian, is murdered, something that causes psychotic vigilante Rorschach to investigate.

Adapted: Yes, with mixed results.

From the Text: “None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.”

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I would plough my way through MonsterCat



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I desire MonsterCat to go down on me.

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RE: The Empire Literature Top 100 - 26/2/2013 11:59:23 PM   
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 6. Hamlet - William Shakespeare (1600) Play



Plot: The Prince of Denmark is visited by the ghost of his father, asking him to avenge his death.

Adapted: So many times. Branagh's version is excellent.

From the Text: “I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.”

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I would plough my way through MonsterCat



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ORIGINAL: matty_b

I desire MonsterCat to go down on me.

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RE: The Empire Literature Top 100 - 27/2/2013 12:06:58 AM   
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 5. The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien (1937) Novel



Plot: Gandalf gets Bilbo to join a quest to take the treasure from the dragon Smaug

Adapted: The first of a trilogy hit cinemas late last year. Why the hell anyone in their right mind would think this book would need three films to do it justice is beyond unders... oh yeah, money. If Leonard Nimoy can tell the Ballad of Bilbo Baggins in just a few minutes with a catchy tune, Jackson has no excuse for needing nine hours.

From the Text: “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.”

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I would plough my way through MonsterCat



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I desire MonsterCat to go down on me.

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RE: The Empire Literature Top 100 - 27/2/2013 12:10:02 AM   
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 4. Animal Farm - George Orwell (1945) Novel



Plot: Allegorical novel about the Soviet Union, in the guise of a story of animals who take over their farm, with the promise of equality quickly forgotten.

Adapted: As an excellent animated film.

From the Text: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

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I would plough my way through MonsterCat



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I desire MonsterCat to go down on me.

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RE: The Empire Literature Top 100 - 27/2/2013 12:17:25 AM   
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 3. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (1979 - 1992) Novel Series



Plot: When the Earth is destroyed to make way for a hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent is saved by his friend Ford Prefect, an alien.

Adapted: Originally a radio series before a series of novels, it would be adapted for television and cinema.

From the Text: “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”

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ORIGINAL: matty_b

I would plough my way through MonsterCat



quote:

ORIGINAL: matty_b

I desire MonsterCat to go down on me.

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RE: The Empire Literature Top 100 - 27/2/2013 12:25:11 AM   
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 2. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut (1969) Novel



Plot: The experiences of Billy Pilgrim, a man unstuck in time.

Adapted: As a film by George Roy Hill

From the Text: “Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.”

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I would plough my way through MonsterCat



quote:

ORIGINAL: matty_b

I desire MonsterCat to go down on me.

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RE: The Empire Literature Top 100 - 27/2/2013 12:25:33 AM   
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 1. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell (1949) Novel



Plot: Winston Smith suffers under the tyranny of a totalitarian government. The cultural impact of this book cannot be underestimated.

Adapted: Several times, both as straight adaptations and as an influence on other work. The strongest version is the live 50s BBC teleplay with Peter Cushing.

From the Text: “Big Brother is Watching You.”

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I desire MonsterCat to go down on me.

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