Friday, October 11, 2013

Book Blogger Hop #13: Scary Book to Film?


Hello all!
Welcome to the
Book Blogger Hop!
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QUESTION:
What scary book would you like turned into a feature film?

ANSWER:
I don't know how scary this book rates, but it is about as
creepy as I can do these days. The book I would LOVE to see is...

HERE is my review if you are interested!

Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.

Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what.

A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.







7 comments:

  1. This looks interesting. It seems like a lot of us are not really into scary books. LOL!

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  2. Wow, now this book sounds great! That would be awesome if it was turned into a great film~ But then again, it would lose some of its greatness.

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  3. I tried reading American Gods ... I just couldn't get into it.

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  4. You know, now that I think of it I'd love to see and of Neil Gaiman's works as movies (excluding Coraline of course which has already been done. And I STILL haven't seen it!)

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  5. Creepy isn't as bad as scary. :)

    THANKS for sharing. I usually don't read his books, but they definitely aren't of the Stephen King Caliber are they?

    Happy Hopping!!

    Elizabeth
    Silver's Reviews
    My Blog Hop Answer

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  6. Sounds awesome! I'd watch that movie, and now I really want to read the book.

    Brenda @Daily Mayo

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  7. I loved Coraline by Neil Gaimen and loved it. I'm putting this one on my ever growing TBR list :-) thanks for stopping by my hop.

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