First ones off the top of my head would be UBIK by Phillip K Dick or either Stranger in a Strange Land or JOB by Heinlein.
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I know two I'd like to have better adaptations, WOT and Wayward Pines.
You just had to bring up WOT. Curse that showrunner! A pox on his house. Wayward Pines is a book? I need to check it out. How did the show mess it up?
Yeah Wayward Pines was a book. The show wasn't terrible but it just didn't capture the feeling to me. And yes Rafe is terrible and ruined the show.
I just finished Pines -- the first book of the Wayward Pines trilogy -- and wow, it gets really, really good in the last 80 pages or so.
I'm writing this because I'm retracting my previous statement about 'weak source material'. I'm diving into "Wayward", the second book of the trilogy, so I'm hoping that the story is well developed.
The idea itself, while not 100% original, is great. And the author puts in an epilogue where he describes what he was trying to do -- no spoilers here... He was trying to re-create the magic of Twin Peaks, and he did a pretty great job.
I love Twin Peaks. Can’t wait to read the books
Ooh... I'm reading Pines right now -- it's a fantastic, breezy read.
The first half of the show was fantastic. The second half fell apart. I actually think it's a bit of a weakness in the source material.
This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I think WOT is overrated (not bad, just not worthy of the comparisons I see to things like LoTR and Dune.) I'm wondering if I just missed something about it that makes others give it such high praise, or if it's just not my thing.
I said when I started reading it that I thought it could make a fantastic RPG with multiple playable characters and branching narratives, and I still think that would be cool, so maybe it was just the format it was presented in.
I've never liked Dune. People have different tastes.