Ewan's coming to London. At the Donmar, no less. Should one get tickets?

London Libraries have published a list of great reads that have inspired films. As I am working, I have decided to bold the ones I have read, italicise the ones I've seen and CAPITALISE the ones I actually like.

FORSTER, E M: A ROOM WITH A VIEW
Mann, Thomas: Death in Venice
STEINBECK, JOHN: EAST OF EDEN
CONROAD JOSEPH: HEART OF DARKNESS
Smith, Dodie: I Capture the Castle
PAGNOL, MARCEL: JEAN DE FLORETTE
O'Brian, Patrick: Master and Commander
Shute, Neville: On the Beach
KESEY, KEN: ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
Greene, Graham: The End of the Affair
Thackeray, W. M.: Vanity Fair
Waugh, Evelyn: Vile Bodies
Lehane, Dennis: Mystic River
Lewis, Ted: Get Carter
ELLROY, JAMES: L A CONFIDENTIAL
Harris, Thomas: Red Dragon (if we're talking Michael Mann version, then a definite thumbs up, otherwise...)
Grisham, John: The Firm (hideous, no matter how you approach it)
Highsmith, Patricia: The Talented Mr Ripley
Topor, Roland: The Tenant
Rice, Anne: Interview with the Vampire
KING, STEPHEN: THE SHINING
Hines, Barry: A Kestrel for a Knave
Hornby, Nick: About a Boy
Syal, Meera: Anita and Me
Morrison, Toni: Beloved
Harris, Joanne: Chocolat
Frazier, Charles: Cold Mountain (I truly contemplated murder whilst sitting through this)
Wells, Rebecca: Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
PALAHNIUK, CHUCK: FIGHT CLUB
Flagg, Fannie: Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
Chevalier, Tracy: Girl with a Pearl Earring
Swift, Graham: Last Orders
Tyler, Anne: The Accidental Tourist
Garland, Alex: The Beach
Walker, Alice: The Color Purple
ONDAATJE, MICHAEL: THE ENGLISH PATIENT
King, John: The Football Factory
Evans, Nicholas: The Horse Whisperer
Allende, Isabel: The House of the Spirits
Proulx, Annie: The Shipping News (oh god, I attempted to read this. Really.)
Welsh, Irvine: Trainspotting
Clarke, Arthur C.: 2001: A Space Odyssey (not so much a question of not liking, more a question of not understanding. Especially because I was introduced to the film through a brief lecture on the comparisons and likenesses between this film and Joyce's Ulysses.)
BURGESS, ANTHONY: A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
DICK, PHILIP K: DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?
Asimov, Isaac: I, Robot
Wyndham, John: The Day of the Triffids
BALLARD, J G: EMPIRE OF THE SUN
Harris, Robert: Enigma
Barker, Pat: Regeneration
Dugain, Marc: The Officers' Ward


I need to get a life.

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