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Unadaptable: Books That Should Never Be Made Into Movies

Not that these books could NEVER be adapted to movies (If Cloud Atlas, Life of Pi, and Naked Lunch can make it to film, anything can), but... y'know... maybe they shouldn't be? Some things are better off staying in print.
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White Noise
White Noise
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2666
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Pale Fire
Pale Fire
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Mr. Fox
Mr. Fox
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The Bone Clocks (David Mitchell)
The Bone Clocks (David Mitchell)
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Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)
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Hopscotch
Hopscotch
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle - Haruki Murakami
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)
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Speedboat
Speedboat
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The Hour of the Star
The Hour of the Star
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Love Medicine
Love Medicine
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Geek Love Katherine Dunn
Geek Love Katherine Dunn
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Possession
Possession
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Nightwood
Nightwood
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To the Lighthouse
To the Lighthouse
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Ada or Ardor (Vladimir Nabokov)
Ada or Ardor (Vladimir Nabokov)
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Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace)
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Love in the Time of Cholera
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Tender Buttons (Gertrude Stein)
Tender Buttons (Gertrude Stein)
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Fledgling (Octavia E. Butler)
Fledgling (Octavia E. Butler)
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The Mezzanine
The Mezzanine
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Dhalgren
Dhalgren
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The Recognitions
The Recognitions
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Everyone Poops (Taro Gomi)
Everyone Poops (Taro Gomi)
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Like Water for Chocolate
Like Water for Chocolate
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The Story of My Teeth (Valeria Luiselli)
The Story of My Teeth (Valeria Luiselli)
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)
My Brilliant Friend (Elena Ferrante)
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Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
Absalom, Absalom! (William Faulkner)
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Paradise Lost (John Milton)
Paradise Lost (John Milton)
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Rainbow Fish
Rainbow Fish
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The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
The Silmarillion (J.R.R. Tolkien)
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A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
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The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy
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I Want My Hat Back (Jon Klassen)
I Want My Hat Back (Jon Klassen)
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The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
The Catcher in the Rye (J.D. Salinger)
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Blood and Guts in High School
Blood and Guts in High School
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The Orange Eats Creeps
The Orange Eats Creeps
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The Castle (Franz Kafka)
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
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