Top Ten Tuesday: Movies that Lead me to Books

Its time again for The Broke and The Bookish's top ten Tuesday.

This week's theme:  Top Ten Tuesday REWIND! (Pick from previous topics that you want to do again or may have missed)

I decided instead to do my own: Top Ten Movies That Lead Me To The Book. Every once in awhile I see a great movie and find out it was a book.  If the movie is good, I assume the book is even better.

1. Psycho by Robert Bloch:  I grew up on the Hitchcock classic Psycho, so I decided it was about time I read the book that lead to the movie.

 

2. Runaway Jury by John Grisham:  As a huge Grisham fan, its amazing I saw the movie first, but I did.  And I really really liked it.

3. Midnight in Paris lead to Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler: Midnight is Paris is a cheesy chick flick that my husband made me watch (yeah, we are a weird couple). In the movie, Owen Wilson's character is a writer in Paris who finds a passage to the past where he meets Hemingway, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Picasso, and many more. I saw this book and thought of that movie and decided to read it.  I loved the book! (Side note: Tom Hiddleston is an adorable F. Scott.)

4.  It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini: I saw this movie during an interesting time in my life.  My husband and I had just been married when our car died. It was a 2004 Volkswagen Jetta with less than 70,000 miles on it and I had taken excellent care of it. After spending about $5,000 in repairs over the course of six months with four different mechanics including a specialist, no one could figure out what was wrong or why it wouldn't work. So we parked it and became a car-less couple. One day, my husband decided we needed a date. We rode the bus to a restaurant and then walked across the street to see a movie. Then we walked about 3 miles home in the dark.  It was one of the best dates I have ever been on. The movie was awesome and we both loved it, so of course I needed to see the movie.

5. True Grit by Charles Portis:  This movie (the remake) was adorable and I loved it, so of course, I had to read the book. :)

6. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: I know, I know. Its amazing it took me so long to read this. I saw the BBC min-series with Colin Firth.  Amazing.

7. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien:  Yes, his is another that took me forever to read.  I saw the first movie with Martin Freeman (love him!) and ended up deciding to read the book before seeing the rest.

8. Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsey:  I love this series on Showtime (except the finale...ugh!). 

9. The Lovely Bones by Alice Rebold:  I saw the movie mostly because of Mark Wahlberg.  I loved about half of the movie, and hated the other half.  I read the book hoping it was better.  While it was better, the ending wasn't any better.

10. Death of a Salesman:  I saw this in high school, the version with Dustin Hoffman and John Malchovich (with hair!).