Good Day DU (July 15, 2021)

[EarlG]

Today in History: July 15

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Question of the Day: What book do you wish would be turned into a movie?

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Today's milestones: Congratulations to the following active DU members!

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JHB (20 years), missingthebigdog (19 years), jumptheshadow (18 years), RandiFan1290 (18 years), pwb (15 years), Caliman73 (13 years), c_junk (12 years), B Stieg (9 years), Lancero (8 years), bearsfootball516 (4 years), nattyice (2 years), Jirel (2 years), King of the sheep (2 years), 2Old2Rock (1 year), Kris Mac (1 year)

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WalshVictoriaLtK

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Good morning, my dear EarlG!

What book would I like to see turned into a movie?

It's a short story, and maybe not long enough to make a movie, but who knows? It's an excellent story by Arthur C. Clarke and it's contained in his book "Reach for Tomorrow."

It's called "A Walk in the Dark." Absolutely terrifying. It builds and builds till you can hardly stand it. I read it years ago, and it has stayed with me all this time.

I don't read much science fiction, but Clarke writes so well that I've enjoyed several of his stories. This was the best one.

[gratuitous]

2. I don't know about a movie

But I'd like to see some of John Dickson Carr's Dr. Gideon Fell "locked room" mysteries brought to life. I thought David Ogden Stiers would have made an excellent Dr. Fell. But he had to go and die on us.

Not much on action and shoot-em-up, but the stories could be quite well crafted for a 90 minute time slot. Three of the stories I've read and enjoyed are:

The Problem of the Green Capsule
The Problem of the Wire Cage
The Man Who Could Not Shudder

Another three out of the 24 total stories Carr wrote, and you could have a decent little mini-series.

[Lars39]

3. The whole Amelia Peabody series, by Elizabeth Peters.

[Aristus]

4. "The Long Walk" by Stephen King, under the pseudonym of Richard Bachman.

A chilling tale of a dystopian future America that was The Hunger Games thirty years before The Hunger Games.

Frank Darabont would make an astonishingly good movie out of it.

"The Long Walk" is also the title of a non-fiction WWII memoir by a Soviet-gulag inmate who escaped from a Siberian prison with some compatriots simply by walking away from the camp, through the deadly Gobi Desert, to freedom on the subcontinent.

Both would make excellent films.

[Niagara]

5. Congratulations on the Anniversaries.

Welcome to DU, WalshVictoriaLtk





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I would like to see more of the Maximum Ride books by James Patterson turned into movies. So far only one has been made.