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click here | | | | | | This Week in Books & Literature | | We review the surprising new sequel to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, take the long view on contemporary classics, and give you a great excuse to watch some movies. | | | | | If You Only Read One Book This Year: September Edition | | "You may have noticed that we're entering into an age of The Eternal Character. While it's true that some characters—your Sherlock Holmes' and James Bonds—have always been more or less eternal, living far beyond their creators as either public domain properties or, more recently, profit centers for whoever held the rights, in recent years the entertainment industry has realized just how lucrative a franchise can be, and no longer sees the death of an author as any reason why there shouldn't be more books…" | | | | | 5 Contemporary Novels That Are Going to Be Classics | | "When we talk about classic literature, we sometimes venture down the rabbit hole of vague definitions and lofty explanations to try and say something simple like, "the book is darn good!" To be sure, some books have stood the test of time, they speak to elements of human experience that many can relate to and empathize with. In addition to great writing, these features are what help to make a piece of fiction an enduring classic. But how do we know which books might become classics in the future? That's really anybody's guess, although some will argue boldly in one direction or another. Even though it may be impossible to say with certainty that a book is bound to become a classic, here are five published in the last forty years that we think have a pretty great chance." | | | | | These 11 Novels Account for 90% of All Movie Book Adaptations | | "When a book becomes a bestseller, it gains traction in the zeitgeist that makes the next logical step a film adaptation. Even books that don't become bestsellers are frequently adapted into films for a few basic reasons: The story's already told, and there's a built-in audience of some kind—not to mention the fact that the people who make films read books and can fall in love with a novel just like anybody else.Some novels, of course, are perennials when it comes to film adaptations; a new movie version seems to hit the theaters every other year. These eleven bestselling novels have been adapted so often in some cases people have forgotten the novel itself actually existed." | | | | | | | | | You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Entertainment newsletter.
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