I’ve been following one of my chapter member’s recent success with her book being turned into a movie. If you haven’t heard about Jane Porter’s book Flirting with Forty, the movie version is in filming right now (Heather Locklear!) in Hawaii! More details on that can be found here.

It got me to thinking about the conversion of books to movies. Some of them are done okay. Some of them are terrible. And some are outstanding! In most instances I’ve rarely read the book that gets transformed into a movie (though I did read Flirting with Forty and LOVED it!). Jane’s said upfront the movie will be different from the book (which I’m guessing tends to be the case). So it’s all good, I’m expecting it. And I think she says it’s going to be a Holiday movie.

I know one of my favorite movies that once was a book, was Bridget Jones Diary. I saw the movie first, loved it, and when I went to pick up the book couldn’t get into it. Odd, I know.

I saw The Princess Diaries before I read the book(s), but loved the books when I picked them up later.

I read Message in a Bottle and hated it so much (wall banger, never kill my hero damn it) that I refused to see the movie. The Da Vinci Code, I loved the book, hated the movie.

So how about you? What movie do you love that started its life as a book?